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#243164 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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#242974 25 Steps to Immortality - A challenge
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#242916 Very nice!
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Just three games in March, but they were three of our best performances this season! Brentford are struggling at the bottom of the table and I could see why as we walked to a comfortable 5-0 win with Kike getting three. Fulham have a habit of getting thumped this season, as we showed by putting seven past them earlier in the season, and this time we scored six. Thats 13 goals this season just against Fulham. The next game was always going to be tougher. Spurs are in the top three and going strong at the moment. I would've taken a draw but then we went 2-0 up in the first half. They brought it back to 2-2 and I thought we'd blown another two goal lead. But then Ayala stepped up with the winning goal on 68 minutes. A rare sight of a win without Kike scoring.
Those great wins move us up to 9th in the table. 8th was my ultimate target, but 7th place is just as achievable and with six of our last seven games very winnable, i'd say we can do it!
#242914 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#242911 Very nice!
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Not much went on, still no affordable GK worthy of buying. Just brought in one striker on loan, i'm sure most of you will have encountered this guy at some stage. Kike was attracting interest from most of Europe it seemed. Monaco, Wolfsburg, Schalke & Benfica were just four of the clubs to show an interest in him with Benfica having 3 bid rejected. I got worried he'd force his way out, which was why I signed Bonazzoli.
Our good run of form has dipped slightly, although we have only suffered two more league defeats. The Leicester game wasn't great because we were 2-0 up and threw it away and the Man Utd was just plain awful.
Despite the many draws, we have risen up 3 places to 10th in the table. A finish here would be good, although I will be pushing as hard as possible to climb the table further because I feel QPR are still catchable.
#242742 FIFA 15
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#242684 Rychla Pujcka
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#242670 Very nice!
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Just had this pop up in my inbox. What makes it so amazing is the fact that we are still only in January!
#242663 Very nice!
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I was going to post at the end of December, but once again I got a bit carried away and went a few games too far. I should probably just post monthly from now on.
Anyway, as you can see going back to our old tactics has worked a treat! We are now back to our high scoring best, as you can see in the Fulham game, and Kike is having the season of his life so far. We suffered three defeats in games I expected to win, but we also managed to come away from away games at Liverpool, Spurs & Chelsea without losing. Not a single clean sheet in that run of games, but we seem to be coping with that as we have only failed to score once in that same period.
That good form has seen us rise up the table and we now currently sit in 12th place, 9 points clear of the relegation zone. If we carry on like this, then I don't see why we couldn't push for 8th place and maybe even 7th if Liverpool continue to struggle.
#242482 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#242458 Sky Blue Army
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#242453 Very nice!
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I went into this season with a slightly different tactic to last season because we were scoring for fun, but conceding even more. The friendlies went well and I was confident that we could do well. Our first three league games were always going to be tough so one point was ok. But what followed was terrible. We were conceding much less than last season, but we were also struggling to score. After the loss to Man Utd meant we had gone the first eight games without winning, I changed back to our tactics from last season. This went well as we then battered West Brom 5-1 away.
Obviously due to the bad start, we are near the relegation zone. But like last season, I will be targeting a finish of 12th or higher.
#242401 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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#242151 Very nice!
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Summer Transfer Window
Initially I wanted to get Wilshere back on loan for another season. But I let a couple of fringe midfielders go so I had the funds available to sign him permanently. Deulofeu also arrived on a free from Barcelona and Declan Rudd was signed as backup for Mark Bunn. I sold my previous backup GK to Arsenal for £400k just 18 months after signing him as a free agent. Towards the end of the transfer window I let another fringe midfielder go on a free and managed to get Tom Cleverley in for just £3.1m.
Our midield is now looking quite strong. We have now got; Jack Wilshere, Tom Cleverley, Darren Fletcher, Sammy Ameobi, Clement Chamtome, Gerard Deulofeu, Nacer Chadli, Lee Tomlin, Emilio Nsue and Andreas Samaris.
#242113 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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#242100 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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Done a bit of searching and Yakubu was born November 1982, which makes him 32 now.
#241532 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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#241405 Very nice!
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Amazingly there were actually 4 strikers who got more goals in fewer games. Kike's record would normally be good enough for at least a spot on the bench though.
Ferreyra = 35 games, 30 goals
Costa = 31 games, 26 goals
Higuain = 32 games, 25 goals
Sturridge = 32 games, 25 goals
Kike = 38 games, 24 goals
Balotelli = 30 games, 24 goals
#241400 Very nice!
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We had a very hard end of season run in. Southampton, Man Utd, Everton, Chelsea & Arsenal we coming up. We also had to play Norwich who are our bogey side, we've already lost 7-1 and 4-1 to them this season. Cardiff and Burnley were the only games I expected to win.
We did pick up the expected wins and also managed to get draws with Southampton, Norwich, Chelsea & Arsenal. I'm not too pleased with the Arsenal draw though because we were actually 3-0 up with about 15 minutes to go.
Unfortunatly we weren't able to get into the 8th-12th place target I had aimed for at the start of the season. But 13th place and 48 points in our first year back in the Premier League is a good start. We also finished as the leagues top scorers with 89 goals, but we also conceded the most with 97. Good entertainment for the neutrals though!
Lee Tomlin has been a beast for me since I joined Boro. He was easily the best player in the Championship last season and has gone on to have a brilliant first year in the Premier League. Thats not me being biased by the way, he has actually been named in the team of the season!
Kike didn't make the team, but i'll give him a special mention anyway. He played 43 times and was involved in 43 goals, 28 scored with 15 assists. This was his first ever season in a top flight league campaign anywhere. I'm just hoping no bigger clubs come sniffing...
#241398 Very nice!
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Yep, in the 2 games i've managed at Anfield, my side has scored 11 goals but only got 1 point.
#241374 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#241335 German Football Thread
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#241330 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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Matt Smith has played for 3 clubs this season. Leeds, Fulham and Bristol City. Are the rules different for lower league teams?
#241173 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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He will be replacing Destro who has gone to AC Milan.
#241146 Very nice!
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Its not great Dan I know, but its the league games against the teams around us that are the most important.
Well its looking like the opposite now Johno.
Not many games in February and March, although there was still plenty on goals. Much like the 7-6 loss to Liverpool when I was at Stoke, we went to Anfield and scored an amount of goals that would win 99% of games. But once again we failed to take the 3 points after drawing 5-5. The positive from that game though is that we were 4-1 down at one point but came back to avoid defeat.
The games I expected to win were the ones we lost, but the games I thought we'd lose in, we took 4 points. Hopefully that kind of form stays until the end of the season because we will be facing Southampton, Chelsea, Man Utd, Everton & Arsenal during our final 8 games. Mathematically anyone in the bottom half can still go down, but I can't see anyone above Wigan being brought back into the fight against relegation.
8 games to go and out target of mid table is still possible. I wanted to get somewhere around 8th-12th so we aren't far away. As you can probably tell from looking at the table, we have scored the most goals in the league, but also conceded the most.
The Boro board obviously like what they see. They offered me a new contract and I accepted it.
#241137 The Italian Football Thread
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#241066 Fitness Thread
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#240859 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Good. Its where it belongs.
#240706 Capital One Cup 2014/15
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#240631 Very nice!
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Despite not being able to sign Wilshere permanently and also failing in a bid to get him on loan, we waited until deadline day and went back for one more try. Arsenal had reduced the monthly fee by £100k and also only wanted us to pay 30% of his wages, down from 50%. Chantome was a steal at £2m and I couldn't resist that price. Dani Garcia and Rhys Williams left for a combined £6.25m as a result.
We had a terrible run of games after the last update facing Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal & Everton. 3 points from those was acceptable I suppose. Since then we have been on a good run of form, except for a couple of dodgy performances against Rochdale in the FA Cup.
Those results have shifted us up a few places and I feel that an 8th place finish could be possible. Will be tough to get there but its not impossible.
EDIT: After the transfer window closed, I took a look at the players with expiring contracts. Initially I didn't see much worth signing. Then I noticed this guy. He is easily good enough for a starting spot in our team so I used pretty much all of our remaining wage budget to get him to sign.