Season 6
Transfers Out
We had a busy transfer window raising funds to help build the team for the future and we were sadly forced into making 2 sales thanks to release clauses being met for Reiss Nelson and Oscar Mingueza but they were both picked up for a combined £6.5million so I guess to make nearly £50million from them alone is a massive piece of business for us if we can spend it wisely. Dani Carvajal was initially sold to save on his wages but whats great is we get £900,000for a player who has decided to retire a week after he moves. Evander was great for us last season but it made sense to sell him as everything that came in for him was pure profit. Miranda had been moaning for a while to leave and he scored every single one of our own goals last season so I wanted rid of him. Thiaw was moaning about a move as well so I cashed in after we only spent £900,000 for him.
We also sold one other player who for some reason doesn't show here but I guess its because he was in the B team was Florin Anghel who we bought last season for £2.9million but then managed to sell for £21.5million to Ulsan Hyundai as he had a really poor season with the B team and we could reinvest the money elsewhere
Transfers In
We have gone a bit heavy in the transfer market again but I was adamant we needed to improve the squad and beef it out a bit to be able to handle league and European football. I also really wanted to add a lot more experience to the team to help balance out the youth.
Sancet joins from Athletic club and has been playing in LaLiga for the last 7 seasons so bring in a wealth of experience for our midfield. Roca comes in and is very versatile as can cover CB/DM/CM. He comes in with a background of playing for Espanyol, Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg and has 11 years of top flight experience.
Lodi joins to fill the LB position and is a current Brazil international so can only bring good things after being at Atletico Madrid for the last 7 seasons being their starting LB
Iturbe, Canales and Cruz all come in as great backup options and will get the rare came when needing to rest some players.
The two players I'm really excited about though are:
Txini Aguire who looks like should develop into a great central midfielder
Antony Mertens who is already a world class CB and can go onto great things here
I originally wanted a more experienced head in defence but found it hard to attract somebody of decent quality on the wages we had left and my scouts stumbled across Mertens so figured we would take a chance on him.
I still need a RB but we can cover that until we can arrange for the right player to come in on a sensible wage.
Friendlies
We had a strong preseason with a slight blip in it but we did try and squeeze in as many games as possible so I don't believe its anything to worry about as we integrate the new team members and give some youth players a run out
Expectations
Again the board is asking us less of what I expect and I fully expect us to make it through the group stages in the Europa League and finish in European spots in the League as we try and push into the top 4
August
A much easier start than last season and I fully expect to get 3 wins from 3 here.
Transfers Out
We had a busy transfer window raising funds to help build the team for the future and we were sadly forced into making 2 sales thanks to release clauses being met for Reiss Nelson and Oscar Mingueza but they were both picked up for a combined £6.5million so I guess to make nearly £50million from them alone is a massive piece of business for us if we can spend it wisely. Dani Carvajal was initially sold to save on his wages but whats great is we get £900,000for a player who has decided to retire a week after he moves. Evander was great for us last season but it made sense to sell him as everything that came in for him was pure profit. Miranda had been moaning for a while to leave and he scored every single one of our own goals last season so I wanted rid of him. Thiaw was moaning about a move as well so I cashed in after we only spent £900,000 for him.

We also sold one other player who for some reason doesn't show here but I guess its because he was in the B team was Florin Anghel who we bought last season for £2.9million but then managed to sell for £21.5million to Ulsan Hyundai as he had a really poor season with the B team and we could reinvest the money elsewhere
Transfers In
We have gone a bit heavy in the transfer market again but I was adamant we needed to improve the squad and beef it out a bit to be able to handle league and European football. I also really wanted to add a lot more experience to the team to help balance out the youth.
Sancet joins from Athletic club and has been playing in LaLiga for the last 7 seasons so bring in a wealth of experience for our midfield. Roca comes in and is very versatile as can cover CB/DM/CM. He comes in with a background of playing for Espanyol, Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg and has 11 years of top flight experience.
Lodi joins to fill the LB position and is a current Brazil international so can only bring good things after being at Atletico Madrid for the last 7 seasons being their starting LB
Iturbe, Canales and Cruz all come in as great backup options and will get the rare came when needing to rest some players.

The two players I'm really excited about though are:
Txini Aguire who looks like should develop into a great central midfielder

Antony Mertens who is already a world class CB and can go onto great things here

I originally wanted a more experienced head in defence but found it hard to attract somebody of decent quality on the wages we had left and my scouts stumbled across Mertens so figured we would take a chance on him.
I still need a RB but we can cover that until we can arrange for the right player to come in on a sensible wage.
Friendlies

We had a strong preseason with a slight blip in it but we did try and squeeze in as many games as possible so I don't believe its anything to worry about as we integrate the new team members and give some youth players a run out
Expectations

Again the board is asking us less of what I expect and I fully expect us to make it through the group stages in the Europa League and finish in European spots in the League as we try and push into the top 4
August

A much easier start than last season and I fully expect to get 3 wins from 3 here.