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Glad you're enjoying it

Am I the only one disappointed to see it finish at just 7-0? If I was Barca's manager I'd have wanted them to keep scoring and score as many as they could. I suppose you can't complain after a 7-0 win though.

That free kick was superb. And to think Chelsea nearly didn't renew his contract...

Really pleasing month in all competitions. Some good wins in the league. We dominated against Aston Villa and eventually David Toal managed to add the winner in the 81st minute. A superb 5-1 win against Liverpool followed, with Velandia scoring his first 2 league goals for the club as well as pleasing performances by other players on the pitch including Paynter, Phillips and Robinson. We followed that up with some tired legs against Swansea and managed to win 3-1 with 33 year old Jack Cork rolling back the years and scoring a double. In the Capital One Cup we had a brilliant 4-1 victory over Chelsea with a few players rested including Sosa, Velandia and Bannon leaving Guner to score twice. Finally, in the Champions League we had a good 3-1 victory over Schalke and I was happy to come back from the Bernabeu with a point against the side that beat us last season in the final.

Here's the league table:



Looking good at the moment but still a long way to go and many more games to play!

Here's the Champions League group so far:



We have Sparta Prague next next which should be a win and Schalke still have to face Madrid twice so we look good for qualifying for the next round.

Tommy Paynter won player of the month after a superb month and young Frenchman Thomas Atangana came third in young player of the month after some strong performances stepping in when Iannello picked up an injury.

I just think speaking English should be one of the priorities for finding an English manager. He won't be able to give team talks, instruct his players himself or anything. I'd think of it as a huge disadvantage.

Does anyone else think that it can't be good for Southampton to have a manager who can't speak English?

It can't be good for the players who can't talk to their manager without a translator.

Looking set for promotion if we can keep this up! Superb mate

Not the best start to the season. Disappointed to lose 1-0 to Man Utd in the Community Shield but that wasn't the end of the world. 2 draws to Stoke and Hull I'm disappointed with because they are games we really need to be winning. Jack Cork played well against Watford to bag us the 3 points there.



Still unbeaten but need to start winning games instead of drawing.

Adrian Symes won the young player of the month award for August after some good goalkeeping performances.

Thanks mate, was good to get to the final but was disappointing to come so close and lose!

Had a few days off Football Manager but I'm back now to continue into the new season with the Saints.

Here's the pre-season friendlies:



Thought I'd do a Portugal pre-season tour and won 2 of these 3 games. The 8-5 loss against Porto put a bit of a downer on the tour but a good tour overall. Disappointed to lose to Celtic but we made up for it with a great win against Barcelona.

A lot of big signings this year, and some big players leaving the club too. I'll start with the players leaving the club:



A huge list. A lot of fringe players leaving who aren't needed leaving the club.

Gavin Gunning was signed on a free transfer to provide back up and we now have players better so he won't really play much. Forster had lost his GK starting spot to academy star Adrian Symes and left the club after 8 seasons here. A lot of young players who weren't good enough have been released on free transfers. Lawrence Riley and Russell Bartlett weren't good enough either so they left the club. Lavezzini and Jordi weren't getting first team football and were complaining about a lack of first team football so I decided to let them go. Kyle Walker came to me and asked for a transfer as he believed his future lied elsewhere so I let him go to Liverpool for £3m. Finally, Bernard Addy went to Schalke for £8m which was a hard one to accept but I'd signed a few strikers who were a lot better than Addy and I couldn't see him making many first team appearances this year.

Here's the players who have joined the club:



Hoyle: 21 year old central midfielder with a big future ahead of him and I was delighted to get him for so cheap. He's a future England star.

Ianello: A 22 year old versatile defender from Inter's academy who will fit into the first team straight away and will only get better with age.

Atangana: A 19 year old right back who will be big in the future. I tried to loan him out for the season but nothing has come of it yet.

Deniz Guner: Delighted to sign this young Turk. He's already a quality striker at the age of 18 with incredible pace and he's going to be a star in the future.

Dufour: Patrice Dufour is a young right midfielder from PSG's academy who I believe can be big in the future. He's been loaned out to feeder club Doncaster for the season to build on his potential and to learn the language.

Díaz: 20 year old centre back who should be huge in the future. Already has some great stats (heading 17, marking 16, tackling 16, bravery 19, work rate 17, jumping 18, determination 16, natural fitness 16, stamina 16)

Douglas: A young defender who should be good in future. Has been loaned out to Hearts for the season.

Sosa: At 23 he is already quite experienced in first team football and has scored goals for fun in previous seasons in Spain, scoring 15 goals in 22 games for Valencia and 11 goals in 22 games for Madrid. Hoping for some big performances from this Argentinian.

Luizao: Delighted to get this 18 year old left midfielder for so cheap. He had a minimum release fee and I matched that immediately. He's already a pretty good left midfielder and will be superb in the future.

Velandia: my big name signing for the season. At 23 years of age, the Colombian has already had big seasons for Colombian side Junior before signing for Brazilian Fluminense and then signed for Benfica.

Should be a good seasons with some big players if they can step up!

Sounds brilliant!

I was more thinking it would be funny if you were in Tesco on self service and it scanned your shirt!

Looks like we could be on for another good cup run!

Notts County have made their kit into a barcode so no tag is needed to scan it at the shop...

Joined both leagues. Be ready to have your asses whooped by the mighty Jambo United.

Is this coming back for the new PL season do we know?

Looks good, but only one problem so far - all topics are marked as unread.

Great stuff so far, Adamyan is on fire!!!

A 2-2 draw in my final game. A game we could probably have won but the draw seemed the fair result. Muller was unfortunate in the own goal - the ball hit the post, hit his back and went in. We managed to get level and then in front through goals by Jordanov and Quaner but couldn't stop them equalising again.

An easy win in the cup:



We completely dominated and probably should have scored more goals than we did, but I'm happy with the 4-0 win.

We have Leverkusen in the next round so could be difficult but we'll give it our best!

I really don't understand our board. I went to them asking for some extra transfer funds and they said that they would prefer us to focus on bringing players through our own youth system. I then asked for them to improve the youth facilities and they said they would prefer that we sign players who are ready for the first team??

They need to make their mind up!

Charlie Graf has come to us complaining about not getting first team football and asked to be loaned out so I have given in to this demands and will loan him out for the season.

Second game went just as well...



Another 2-0 win thanks to a Mizutani double. We completely dominated this one and deserved the win.

First game of the new season went well...



We beat Bochum 2-0. They didn't really have any chances apart from the penalty which was saved by Kevin Muller. A good start to the season.

It's just been announced that the club made a profit of £2.6m last season, 13% of our overall turnover. Good going fellas!

Walther and a lot of the other youngsters are very promising and I've put some of them in our squad in case we need to used them at any time next season.

Marcel Halstenberg has signed a new 4 year deal for him to stay at the club and Sargis Adamyan has also signed a new 4 year deal. Both of those players were going to be out of contract at the end of the season so I thought it would be best to sign them on now to keep them here.

The budgets were quite generous compared to previous seasons but none of that left now unless players depart. Think we've seen the end of our transfer activity for this window.

Colin Quaner has now joined the club for £700k. Quaschner has a match highest earner clause which means his wages have gone up to £9.75k per week.

He's got some good stats already and he can do a good job for us in cup games and things.

I've found another left midfielder who is interested to join us and I've had an offer of £700k accepted for him and have offered a contract. I won't confirm it until I get your opinions on him though:



He's only 24 and could do the job for us for a while.

I've moved Nicolai Walther from the u19s side into the first team because I believe he can play in the first team this season. He's just 17 but he's already a good defender and will get much better in the future.

Looking in our youth team and we have a lot of promising players:



Looking very good for the future!