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Chapter 14 Investing In The Future Monday 27th January 2025 Investing in the future is absolute key and I am pleased the board have reacted positively to my requests to improve the youth recruitment and junior coaching budgets. I mentioned in my last post that December was a good month...

Chapter 13 December, December, Oh What A December! Tuesday 31st December 2024 We were off to Germany to play Bayer Leverkusen who were looking to kick start their Champions League campaign as they came into this game sitting 21st in the league phase. Alex Grimaldo was highlighted as their...

Chapter 12 Real Madrid Are Just So Good Sunday 3rd November 2024 Our first draw of the season came against Sevilla as we grab a point when just 2 minutes away from defeat. Christantus Uche came off the bench to head home from a corner in the 93rd minute to ensure we take something from the...

Chapter 11 Talk About A Tough Start Thursday 19th September 2024 Pablo Torre didn't play in our opening day fixture as he was tired, having only just returned from the U23 Spain squad at the Olympics. However, it only took him 5 minutes to score on his debut here against Valencia on our way to...

Chapter 10 Preparing To Play A New Formation Friday 16th August 2024 My first departure of the Summer is goalkeeper David Soria. Now you obviously never want to lose your number 1 keeper, but I have to admit that Soria was a bit of a disruptive influence at times last year, disagreeing with me...

Chapter 9 End of Season 2023/24 Review Competition Winners La Liga EA Sports = Barcelona La Liga Hypermotion = Racing Santander Copa del Rey = Real Madrid Supercopa de Espana = Real Madrid Serie A = AC Milan Bundesliga = Bayern Munich Premier League = Tottenham Ligue 1 = Paris Saint-Germain...

Chapter 8 The Run In Monday 27th May 2024 Our run in kicked off with a 2-2 draw away at Mallorca who are seriously overachieving this season and still have an outside chance of qualifying for Europe. Based on that alone, getting a point at their place isn't the worst result. That point...

Chapter 7 Las Palmas The Bogey Team Sunday 21st April 2024 Espanyol sit rock bottom of the table and have won only 3 league games all season, so I fully expected a win against them. However, we were only able to manage a draw despite being camped in their half for the entire 90 minutes and...

Chapter 6 Busy Deadline Day Saturday 24th February 2024 For the first time this season, we would face fellow La Liga opposition in the Copa del Rey and Las Palmas would present stiff opposition after already beating us 2-0 in the league back in October. And they got the better of us again...

Chapter 5 Eyes Set On European Football Sunday 28th January 2024 We returned from the Christmas break with an excellent win over Valencia. We've completed the double over them this season and that is a great achievement for us and hopefully this result will see us pick up in 2024 where we left...

Chapter 4 An Incredibly Tight Bottom Half Sunday 31st December 2023 We kick off this chapter with some bad news as I lose my keeper for up to 5 weeks. Now if you're looking for a team that has made a disappointing start to the league campaign, then look no further than Athletic Bilbao who...

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Chapter 3 Real and Barca's League And We're All Just Playing In It Sunday 22nd October 2023 Real Sociedad were definitely going to provide our biggest test in the league so far this year. However, the game did result in another 3 points for us! Our first goal came with a stroke of luck as Diego...

Chapter 2 A Solid Start & Transfer Deadline Day Sees Two Arrive Saturday 2nd September 2023 Pre season saw us go unbeaten through 6 friendlies and was capped off with a huge 8-0 win against lower league Spanish opposition in La Nurcia. The tactic seems to be working well and the lads have...

Chapter 1 The Squad As I meet my squad, I am pleased to see an abundance of Spanish talent in the ranks and only 7 players across the first team are not of the home nationality. This is something I'd love to continue through my career and although I won't exclusively sign Spanish players, I...