Bradford City - Road to the Premier League !

March Update and Transfer Target

We recorded the first loss of the season. It doesnt matter at all as we have already won the league.
Now, i am preparing for Premier League, digging in transfer market to reinforce my squad.
The board gives me 18m and 380K wage budget.

Position(S) that i need to reinforce are RB,LB, CB, CM, ML
Daniel Ayala, Julian Brandt,Guillermo Varela,André Hoffmann,Xavi Quintillà etc are my transfer target.




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Building Premier League Squad

GK and Defenders
Giuseppe MessinaGK
Jorge TeixeiraSW, D (C)
Stephen DarbyDR
James MeredithDL
Tony McMahonDR
Felix MüllerDL


Midfielders
Hugo MauplotDMC
Adam ForshawMRLC
Paul AndersonMR
David EdwardsMC,AMC
Roman MacekMR


Forwards
Conor WashingtonAMLC,ST
Simon ChurchST


Target:
2 GK
3 DC
2 DR
2 DL
6 MC/AMC
2 MR
2 ML
2 ST
=About 21 Players
 
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Julian Brandt joins Bradford City

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Bradford City have signed Julian Brandt following transfer-list by Leverkusen, who becomes the The Bantams’ first new signing ahead of the 2017/18 Premier League campaign. Leverkusen accepted a deal reportedly worth £2.5m from Bradford City. Julian Brandt broke into first team since 13/14 season for the German club,making 42 appearances , scored 7 times.

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Kempf PASSES MEDICAL and signed for Bantams
Marc-Oliver Kempf moves to Bradford City after he passed a medical , according to Sky sources.
The 22-year-old was met by Bradford City's team doctor ahead of a £3.1m move to Valley Parade. He passed his medical yesterday and the club has just declared this transfer on twitter this morning. This is the second signing of The Bantams ahead of the 2017/2018 Premier League campaign.

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Giulio Donati,who has represents Italy U-21 25 times ,joins Bradford City . The Bantams agreed a fee of £1m with FSV Mainz 05. This is the third deal of The Bantams .
 
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Season Review

Little bit Result update
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Sky Bet Championship

PtsPWDLFA
1st11046331128220

2016/2017Season Review
Sky Bet ChampionshipChampion
English FA CupForuth Round
Capital One CupForuth Round


Bradford City made dreams came true this season . Media suggested they would struggle to avoid relegation but they won the did the unbelievable title-winning. Next season will return to Premier League after 16 years of waiting.

Team Award:
Fans' Player of the Year
Josh Morris
Jake Hesketh
Conor Washington

Club's Young Player of the Year
Jake Hesketh


Top 3 Goalscorer:
Simon Church :18
Conor Washington:15
Josh Morris:12

Top 3 Assist
Josh Morris:13
David Edwards:10
Adam Forshaw, Paul Anderson :8

Distance Covered /90
Paul Anderson:14.3km

Player of the Year (League)
Josh Morris

Players' Team of the Year
Adam Forshaw,Josh Morris and Conor Washington
 
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Brandford City signs three, including Brazilian full-back Danilo Avelar, German defensive midfielder André Hoffmann, and Serbian International Predrag Rajkovic, combination of £7m. Predrag Rajkovic is one of the most promising goalkeeper in Europe, the former captain of Serbia U20 has already represented his country for 8 times .

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Bradford City has captured Fernando Amorebieta from free agent market. The manager expects his experience in top flight can help the team to avoid relegation.

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German forward Nils Quaschner,who turned 23 years old 2 months ago, has joined City from RB Leipzig for [FONT=&quot]£[/FONT]245K transfer fee. The manager says" Nils has pace, strength, he is hard-working and suits our style."

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24 years-old midfielder Maurice Hirsch has joined City , transfer fee is [FONT=&quot]£[/FONT]1.5m according to source.Besides, City has also signed Zsolt Horváth, 16-years-old Hungarian play-maker from Újpest .

Squad build up is basically finished!
 
I am reluctant to announce that long-serving James Hanson and Rory McArdle left the club . Ben Williams was also released .
Hot prospect Pierre Neyens was sold to Benfica ,transfer fee is 5M .
 
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Pre-season started and over. Season is ready to begin.
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We played against teams with different levels in order to design different tactics.
Busy schedule in August , we need to play against :
Watford, Chelsea,Nottm Forest,Swansea and Capital Cup 2 Round(unknown so far)

Will talk about tactics soon.
 
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Formation4-4-1-14-1-4-14-2-4
MentalityDefensiveCounterAttacking
Team ShapeFlexibleFluidStructured
TIClose Down More
Higher Tempo		Close Down More
Be More Disciplined		Max Tempo,
Max Closing Down
Fairly Narrow
Offside Trap
Tight Marking
 
Premier League Week 1-2

Week 1
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Bradford City grabbed first win in Premier League after 16 years .

Conor Washington tested Danny Ward but he held easily on 6mintues .
Iofra 's free header from set piece just went wide and Rajkovic did well to parry Deeney's effort.
Conor Washington leaded started counter attack ,Quaschner switched the play , Paul Anderson received at far side and crossed for Conor Washington who shot with first time and beat the keeper. We created the opening on 29minutes.
City doubled in counter attack on 41minutes, Hirsch's long pass found Quaschner and lobbed the keeper .
Ighalo had instant impact after coming on, Watford narrowed City's advantage on 77minutes with combination of Ighalo ,Deeney and Amrabat .
City were able to hold the lead and grab the first win in Premier League under Javier Lok.

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Wales striker Sam Vokes joins Bradford City from free agent market.
J[FONT=&quot]osh Morris signs new deals until 2021.[/FONT]

Week 2
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Bradford City wasted chances.
Julian Brandt and Forshaw missed two good chances in the first half.
Courtois saved a certain goal from Quaschner who took a shot within 8 yards, the ball flew to the corner.
City broke Chelsea from counter attack, Paul Anderson scored , but the linesman raised the flag.
Higuaín converted from rare chances of Chelsea, who won the aerial duel with Teixeira on 56minutes , he later doubled the advantage when City threw every players upfront and tried to score the equalizer.



Week3
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Goalless,boring draw.
Both team did not have chances created until after 70minutes.
Julian Brandt wasted a golden opportunity to score on 87mintues, the shot went wide.
Assombalonga had several long shots , but most of them did not hit the target.
Timmo Klose was sent off on 90minutes as he did last-man tackle but nothing has changed apart from that.
 
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Capital One Cup 2nd Round Vs Swindon
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I did not expect overtime to knock out Swindon
and
can clearly see the problem during the game.
My players are not creativity enough, they can play well counter attack soccer because it is simple.
When they are required to break the bus just like in this game, they are not able to do it.
The only player with some extent of creativity is Hirsch, but he needed some rest.
The equalizer came from corner.
Once again Simon Church is not skillful but he is hard-working , he runs a lot which offers lots to the team.

Week 4
Fluke win in Wales
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Keko was a dangerous ,who crossed for Ayew and his towing header almost beat Rajkovic,the shot-stopper parried the ball and hit the crossbar.
Keko was completely free in the box but his shot went wide later.
Kieran Tripper tackled Julian Brandt and penalty was given.
It was in the 90th minutes, Avelar scored the game-winning goal!

City are sitting at 9th place after week 4 .


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Manager signes new deal.
#BCAFC
 
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Great stuff, back to back promotions with Bradford is no easy task!
 
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