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| Daedalus | Monday, 24. June 2013, 21:01 Post #1 |
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£524k is certainly an improvement on the £153k sponsorship money that we received last year, but I'd still like more. Additional kit sponsor: £350k (£113k) for one year. Stadium sponsor: £90k (£30.25k) for one year. Stadium sponsor: £90k (£10.7k) for two years. Plus the main kit sponsor of £84.7k for one more year. So it's an improvement, and that's good. We're going to need even more improvement with a war chest of £15.75m and a wage budget of £120k per week. It's worth remembering that while individual players can earn that much on their own, this nearly doubles last season's budget. |
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| Daedalus | Monday, 24. June 2013, 21:13 Post #2 |
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We got a 19-year-old Cypriot defender for free last year. He had a fantastic season, averaging a rating of 7.09 over 34 games. But I knew he wasn't going to improve, and improvement is necessary when you're making the step up, so he's just gone to Norwich for £1.8 million and 50% of his next transfer in case I'm wrong. Alican Erdem was a first teamer for the BSP and League 2 campaigns, but he never truly shone and was almost totally forgotten in League 1 and the Championship. He's returned to his level with League 2 Bradford City. Josh Dawkin had two great seasons in the lowest two professional leagues, scoring 15 assists and 5 goals in League 1, but he couldn't match up to the penultimate flight and has gone to League 1 Carlisle. Yaya Sanogo had a great season in League 1 with Swindon, scoring 26 goals in 37 games. Man City played the striker just once the year later, and released him to our service for the 2015/16 season. Pat Richards is a central-and-left-attacking midfielder, who's also able to hold down a spot up front and in the middle of the park. He's as pacy as roadrunner on steroids (for his position) and has an excellent work rate tied with good natural fitness. The 18-year-old Welshman won't be getting straight into the team, but the Swansea youth product has the potential to at least earn us some money. That concludes the first round of signings, |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 11:58 Post #3 |
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Tomás Podstawski is a Polish-born Portuguese central midfielder, who started at Porto's youth academy and quickly cemented a place on the fringe of the first team. By the time Swansea paid £3.4 million for a then-18-year-old, he'd made 45 first team appearances, including half a season with a 7.51 average rating. He had 11 assists and 3 goals in 18 Championship games, and featured strongly in their premiership relegation the next year. He played nearly every game to get Swansea into the play-offs, adding 17 assists and 4 goals to his tally. With 9 caps to his name, it's clear this is a 21-year-old with both talent and experience. I can't blame the Welsh for wanting his name on their shirts, put it that way. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 12:06 Post #4 |
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Diego Capel is much older than the average player at Llanellian Road, netting 126 appearances for the Sevilla first team and another 84 for their B side before I'd even started my career. The 28-year-old Spaniard has made 106 appearances in five seasons for Sporting CP since then, averaging 7.46 in the last two. As with Mr Pod, I'm really not sure why they let their £3m left winger go on a free. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 12:15 Post #5 |
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Willian managed just 23 games at Corinthians before Shakhtar sunk £9.5 million on him. The striker-cum-left-centre-and-right-attacking-midfielder made 99 appearances in Ukraine before he moved to Porto for £7.75 million. The 27-year-old made 121 appearances in five seasons there, scoring 66 and assisting in 37 assists, averaging a rating of 7.53. Free, again... |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 12:17 Post #6 |
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I nearly signed Illugi Eiríksson last year, but Portsmouth poached him from my grasp. The Icelandic 19-year-old scored four goals in nine appearances there before being dropped due to financial constraints. He's not that great yet, but he's very fast and he has buckets of potential. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 12:56 Post #7 |
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One thing is for sure. This is not the team that won the Championship. For a start, we're no longer playing a 4-4-2. Except we are. Explain? Willian is still on the right wing, but he's much higher up, and he's going to be cutting in as an inside forward. This makes it much more of a 4-3-3 in practice. The back four isn't that much different. Max Lorz and Vlad are still the defensive-minded full-backs, and Cappai and Sahbani will still be rotated into those positions. Jonjo Razov still leads the defensive line (odd for a 19-year-old), and he's joined by another familiar face: Kazuma Miki. The Japanese youngster isn't standard defender material, but he seems to have something on Aird, Rugani and Fagan. If push comes to shove, he can always be rotated out if I'm proved wrong. Last year's super-signing Aarab is joined by the Pod in the middle of the park, both looking to dictate play, and Capel's going to be haring up and down the left wing. As I said earlier, Willian's got the right inside forward position on his own, with Dewi Carroll (he's 18, but 8 goals in 16 appearances speaks for itself) leading the line and Yaya Sanogo just behind him. It's a fairly attacking setup with a fairly defensive mindset, but I have a feeling it will work. Cappai, Souza, Serraino, Perret, Rugani, Sahbani, Grau, Sanogo and Fagan aren't going to like being relegated to the bench, mind. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 13:06 Post #8 |
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I've just signed Romanian 20-year-old Vlad Popescu to replace James Gilpin. At 25, the Scot has already reached his peak, but Popescu has more to give and so we've one more unhappy player to contend with. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 13:47 Post #9 |
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Sanogo (4) and Dewi Carroll (24, 60) both scored in a footballing masterclass at Hartlepool, before we went to Gillingham where Carroll (26) scored again and Jonjo Razov (95) added one of his own. Caroll increased his tally to five against Dumbarton, where Capel nabbed his first and Sanogo got his second. Lyon beat us 1-0 in front of the cameras, though with four players on international duty and Podstawski injured (fortunately not serious) that's not a bad scoreline. Dewi Carroll smashed another brace, and Sanogo and Capel both scored again in a 4-1 victory over League 1 Torquay, and we rounded things up with a 2-0 in Montrose with Miki and Aarab both scoring. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 13:47 Post #10 |
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Lennon, who played a big part in our League 2 and League 1 seasons and a bit-part in our Championship winning run has gone to Norwich for £500,000 and 50%. Gilpin very quickly saw that he'd be better off as a backup at Manchester United than he would as a backup at Colwyn Bay and negotiated a £1.3 million transfer to Old Trafford. It's a shame to see him go, but it's money in the bank. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 18:44 Post #11 |
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Phwoar, 2-0 against Bolton in the opening game of the season (the Man City game has been re-arranged twice) is not a bad result no matter how you look at it. Diego Capel assisted in both goals, one from Dewi Carroll, the next from Kazuma Miki--now that's a ball playing defender. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 19:10 Post #12 |
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Season tickets are sold out. All 4,617 of them. League 2 Hartlepool have sold 50 more than our maximum. League 2 Portsmouth have sold 1,800 more. League 2 Bradford? 3,800 more. We've sold the lowest number in the premier league, and only three championship teams have sold less (Scunthorpe, Gillingham and Bury). Thirteen League 1 teams have sold more. Hull's sold 9,800 more for crying out loud. The next closest premier league team has sold 4,900 more, and for their first game they sold 12,500 more tickets than our current maximum capacity... or 5,700 more than our maximum capacity will be after the upgrade is done. But that just shows how much further we have to go. We might be in the top flight, but there's so much more room left to grow. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 19:11 Post #13 |
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Yaya Sanogo came from Manchester City. He returned with Colwyn Bay to score a brace at The City of Manchester Stadium. They scored two to equalise in the last ten minutes, but that's a fantastic result against a preposterously strong team. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 19:19 Post #14 |
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Our weakest team played Port Vale in the League Cup and thrashed them 3-0. Daniele Rugani opened the scoring, and Loic Perret added a brace. Good to see that our least favourable game of the season (probably) still netted us a full house of 5,700. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 19:26 Post #15 |
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We got £2.8 million in TV money last year. We've got more than that in one month in the premier league. This might just work out for us. |
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| Daedalus | Tuesday, 25. June 2013, 19:27 Post #16 |
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Zac Fagan didn't want to not play games, so he's gone to Scunthorpe instead of being paid off. |
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| Daedalus | Wednesday, 26. June 2013, 06:43 Post #17 |
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Scoring four goals in 50 minutes against anyone is a good idea. Conceding three in the last forty bloody well isn't. When you've thrown away leads at City and lost to Chelsea and Liverpool on the back of that, you need something to inspire confidence, and that certainly wasn't it. |
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| Daedalus | Sunday, 18. August 2013, 10:35 Post #18 |
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Just announced a two-year "general sponsorship deal" for £45k. I know it's a little extra in the pot, but what's £45,000 going to pay for when you're 7th in the premiership? It doesn't pay half a week's wages for goodness sake. It's insulting as it is beneficial, if not moreso. And there I sound like an overpaid primadonna. Until you realise the only people making less at the club are 18, 19 and 21 respectively. |
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| Daedalus | Sunday, 18. August 2013, 11:13 Post #19 |
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And now I'm on £14k a week. All I needed to do was ask. |
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| Daedalus | Sunday, 18. August 2013, 11:37 Post #20 |
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We're playing at the Emirates, getting totally dominated but only conceding one goal. Jonjo Razov (the defender) scores just on the stroke of half time, before scoring a further brace (a hat-trick from a defender?!) in a 4-2 victory. Smashing. |
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