January
We complete a 4th month of nothing but victory
Fixtures
We return to league action with a win over Celtic in a very tight game that couldnt have gone either way but for Ally Campbells double. Weaker 11s beat St Johnstone and Dundee Utd without much problems.
SPL Table
A Slow month in the games and goals means the last major target of scoring 200 goals is over, We would need to average 7 goals a game. St Mirren too to join the race for 22nd but Rangers look too far ahead of anyone except Celtic. Raith made a huge mistake sacking Robson!
Transfers
One of my busiest January ever
In
Abel Ruiz - Att
Famous as a stand out first year signing in this years game, I've not had him since fm17 or 18 so will be a intriguing buy. We didnt need more forwards but his asking price was very low with the contract expiring.
Gustavo Flores - DC
A recent clear out of centerbacks allowed me to sign a player thats sat on my shortlist for 18 months! His price was down to £5m again contract expiring.
Tiba - MR
I spent ages looking for good Brazilian regens but this seems to be all the 2024 batch can offer up.
Squad players
Dmitry Kovalenko was probably the star of the u21s expiring contracts club.
Fabio Reis &
Pablo Macedo stumbled to Pittodrie with the bargain Portuguese release clauses.
Out
This was a tough window for us but a very profitable one.
Mohamed Aouadi was always set to leave in this window to open up room for the u21s that are on loan to progress tot he first team next year,
Hurtado's sale was agreed months ago after failing to break into the team.
Patrick Ogbodo and Diego were both getting offers so i sold the weaker of the two.
Simon Berthelsen was a wing back i had no plan to sell but at least it clears up my regular starting spot.
Eloy Morales was my main starting midfielder but with Grangier now ready for regular first team football i played a game of name your price with Liverpool.
SPL Transfers
Celtic make the stand out signing of the month despite all out money spent.
One transfer we didnt manage was the return of
Scott McKenna. Tottenham only wanted £15m so the idea of getting him back for almost half the cost would be a dream. However his wage demands of over 100k, 4 times my highest wage ended the hopes of a return. He did manage to make a move however.