Its the end of August now, and the transfer window is closed...
To provide backup/competition for Shane Higgs I signed Mark Howard, although No-where as good as begovic, Portsmouth were demanding £1mil as a loan fee, so I signed Howard or £425k.
I also managed to pick up 26 year old Ze Rui on yet another free transfer, who looks a very promising left winger...
All these free transfers demanded fairly high wages, so to cope with this, I sold Andy Robinson for £150k, who I thought wasnt a great player, especially for £7000 a week!! I also sold Ben parker for £180k, as I think I already have enough decent cover for LB, and finally sold Grella for £130K, as with Kaviedes, Beckford, Beccio and Somma, didnt see the point in keeping him around.
My Preseason warm up games went very well, especially the 3-2 win over Tottenham (Hopefully the real LUFC can beat them in the replay next week!) Although, with the exception of my win over Preston in the cup, August has been a dissapointing month, with only 7 points from 5 games... Partly, I can blame this on a congested fixture list leaving my players tired, and picking up some key injuries, with Doyle missing most of August (but he is know back in training), Kilkenny and Beckford both expected to be out until the end of September, Naylor being out until mid-september.
Hopefully, Autumn will bring me a bit more luck, and a few better results...
Thanks again for reading, Gren
PS: Daz, I will try and keep this updated atleast every other day, depending on how busy my real life gets, will depend on how much I can include in these updates though.
