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[Pinadiku]

Now you gotta complain Albert? you chose Racing cause they give you money! if you go to 2nd division it will be just your fault!

Now... get out there and outplay the other team strikers and help Racing do better performances and stop crying!!

 

[jordalicious]

Haha, the first to get a national cap, awesome

 

[Andrewpage14]

Good win against arsenal shame I didn't get to show in it but nevertheless it was a good win showing I was right to reject arsenal a year or so ago

 

[Harriers09]

Looking forward to the next update!

 

[CrookdMoe]

December Updates:

We will start the December update with the most improved team. Racing have moved from the danger of relegation zone all the way up to 10th in the league with a safe 8 point difference. The team's fans will hope Racing will keep up their recent form. 2 wins and 1 draw with a loss saw them catapult up the league table. Molist Mora has played an important role and seems to have started playing more physical and back to his old self by picking up a yellow card on the way.

Andrew Page has made his first 2 European Competition appearances of his career. In both matches he had decent outings but didn't produce anything for the team. This season, in 6 overall appearances, he has been average a rating of 6.88. Tottenham all the while, are 4th in the league tied with Arsenal with 36 points. Arsenal are ahead due to goal difference. Spurs are on a 11-game unbeaten streak and beating Aston Villa 4-1 in the Carling Cup in that run to make it to the Semi-Finals, where they will go head to head with EPL's number 1 team, Manchester United.

Braga have made it past the Group Stages of the Europa League. For their first knockout matches will be easy as they take on Dnipro of Ukraine. In the Portuguese League, Braga have moved up on points with Sporting tied on 29 points. Jonsson has been a machine this season making 21 appearances and not to forget the 2 caps for his country.

Benfica have also moved past the Europa League Group Stages. But they will have a tougher second round, compared to Braga, when they take on PAOK from Greece. In the past month, Horak hasn't made any appearances. Many have thought he would have gotten a chance, but it seems that the team manager is sticking with his experienced players to advance through the matches and place his team in best position. In the league, they are 4th, trailing Braga by 3 points. Benfica even beat Sporting earlier in the month 1-0.

Chivas were not able to win 2 trophies in a row as they lose 2-0 on aggregate to Cruz Azul. Once again losing away 2-0 before drawing 0-0 at home. Again, Chivas had gone all season unbeaten at home, yet their away form has been short of insuring. If they are able to get their away form in check, they will be a force in the League. They will start their Clausura League midway through January. For now, vacation mode for Bottomtoucher and his teammates. In the CONCACAF Champions League, Chivas drew Saprissa of Costa Rica for the Quarter Finals round. The 2 legs will be played in March 2014.

A very busy month for Manchester United. 6 games in the EPL and 1 Champions League match. They were able to beat Dortmund once again, this time 1-0 at home. Their League form has been less impressive. Winning 3, drawing 1 and losing 2. The recent form sees them 6th in the EPL. Both Benji and Joe Williams haven't played any games in December.

Other News:
- Leicester City have pulled themselves out of the relegation zone and are now in 15th place with a 4 point gap. Winning 4 of the 7 leauge matches and drawing 1 and losing 2.
- Messi wins his 5th FIFA's Ballon d'Or on the row. One can say that Messi has put other players in football history to shame if you look at his individual awards. On the international stage, he has still lots to prove.
- Wayne Rooney becomes to first Manchester United player to win the World Football Player of the Year after Cristiano Ronaldo won it 5 years earlier. Many thought he would have won the FIFA's Ballon d'Or, but he will have the last laugh by winning the 2nd prestigious award.

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[CrookdMoe]

January Updates:

The injury young star, James Beadle, has rejected a new expansion contract. James has 18 months left in his contract with Leicester City. He is also fighting to get back his fitness after coming back from a 2-month long injury. Talk behind the scene say that Leicester City wanted to give James a wage cut and that was simply a no-no for Mr. Beadle.

The mind games have begun against Benfica. Real Madrid manager, Jose Mourinho, said to the press how he would like to have Horak in his team in the near future. Horak was flattered by the interest of Les Merengues. He also mentioned it would be stupid to turn down an offer from, arguably, the best club team in club history.

Manchester City have signed a new deal with Benji for a lucrative 2 year deal that will see him make $3,200,000 over that span. Joe Williams on the other hand snubbed his contract offer.

Andrew Page will be moving to Portsmouth until the end of the season to get more first team action. Being a hot prospect, Tottenham didn't want Page to sit and miss match opportunities. Andrew Page was said to be excited to finally get the chance to play first team football again on a more consistent basis. Portsmouth are 20th in the nPower Championship League Table.

With just under 11 months left in his contract, Jose Gainza declined a new contract offer from Sporting Kansas City. Jose may have not had a so-so season for his second year, but he was still instrumental part of the team's form this year that saw them go from the laughing stock of the MLS to serious contenders.

>> Winter 2014 Transfers <<

Sergio Aguero - Manchester City >> Barcelona - Fee: $62m
Fabio Coentrao - Real Madrid >> Manchester City - Fee: $41.5m
Milos Krasic - Juventus >> Chelsea - Fee: $35.5m
Marko Marin - Werder Bremen >> Inter Milan - Fee: $27.5m
Andile Jali - Aston Villa >> Lyon - Fee $27.5m
Alberto Lora - Zaragoza >> Malaga - Fee: $21.5m
Pavel Niakhaichyk - Dinamo Moscow >> Marseille - Fee: 21$m
Maicon - Inter Milan >> Manchester City - Fee: $20.5m

Pablo Zabaleta - Aston Villa << Manchester City - Fee: $2.7m
Andrew Page - Portsmouth << Tottenham - Fee: Free Season Long Loan
Edgar Ivan Pacheco - Bordeaux << Chivas - Fee: $6m
Edgar Solis - Lens << Chivas - Fee $4.6m
Sean St. Ledge - Newcastle << Leicester City - Fee: $6.75m
Nacho Insa - Parma << Racing Santander - Fee: Loan Fee $625k

Other News:
- FC Porto have broken the record for the longest unbeaten run in Liga ZON Sagreb as they are on a 44 game run. Unheard of in Protuguese league.
- The $62,000,000 selling fee is a new Transfer Record for Manchester City. Previous record was held by Shawn Wright-Phillips selling transfer fee when Chelsea paid $38,000,000 many years back.
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[BeadSTARR]

Rejected a contract. Good. I need a move. Maybe a team that gets relegated that can push on for promotion straight away might be good, or a lower team in the prem where I will get games. Come on!!!!!

 

[Harriers09]

Disappointed with Chivas...we need to start winning away from home!

 

[plinie19]

Ugh, rejecting a contract is so risky as an American. Hopefully I have interest from Europe!

 

[Average Joe]

Haaaa, I'm happy I rejected Citys contract but I bet I end up at Southend or somthing!!

 

[Andrewpage14]

At least I'll get some much needed match experience. Not the best of teams, maybe I can turn them around

 

[Lol_101]

come get me 'the special one'

beside i like real madrid more than barca XD

 

[Pinadiku]

Hahaha, Lol_101, i tried to click "dislike" for your post but i cant find it...

Come to play in La Liga!! even if its for Madrid...

 

[CrookdMoe]

February Updates:

Surprise change of team for Andrew Page, but it seems to have paid off. Andrew has already scored 2 goals in 8 games for Portsmouth since he joined them. He has even helped Portsmouth move up past Leicester into 15th in the league.

James might have just come back from injury and fighting to get in form, the England U-21 have already included him into the next friendly and he should be back with them in March. He hasn't played a match for City since coming back. They need him to play though, they have won only 1 games in the 5 matches played in February. 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses, dropping down to 17th in the table.

Chivas fans have been asking for a better form away from home. And they certainly have got that in the Closura, going undefeated in 4 games. Their only loss has come at home when they lost 0-1 against Tigres. Bottomtoucher has been playing every match in the Closura and has scored a goal to add to his collection this season.

City have started the 2014 year with a high. Losing only 1 game all year after 2 months of matches. Playing 12 games, winning 9, drawing 2 and losing 1. While Benji made 3 appearances in February and picked up a red card on the way. Joe Williams for his part, has made 2 appearances in February. Many saw that coming now that the matches will start coming in thick and fast for the team. So depth will be important and City should feel lucky to have such great young talent in their system.

Racing's Molist Mora has been racking up the matches played this year...as well as racking up the yellow card collection. More so as of late. It seems that Mora only plays better when he walks a thin line between a booking and not. He has collected 4 yellow cards this season, 3 in February, and he is now 1 card away from his first every La Liga suspension. Racing are now in 8th place and only 1 point away from 6th. Racing, with a bad start to the season, could have been in a better league position and battling for European contention by now. There is no reason to write them out of it just yet. With 14 matches left, Racing could knock on European football sooner than expected.

After beating Braga 3-1 in the League match, they have now moved up to 3rd and pushed Braga to 4th instead. Both tied in points with 40. Benfica also pushed aside PAOK in the European League Knockout Stages 8-1 on aggregate, smashing them 6-0 at home. Jarl Horak made only 2 appearances in February.

Morten Jonsson has been a busy little young lad this season. 30 appearances, 2 international caps, 4 assists in European League as well as 5 MotM in Europa League... is there something this lad cant do for Braga? Yes, he can't seem to help the team move past Sporting Lisbon in the League Table. Braga have moved down to 4th behind Benfica even though they are tied in points. All that and he is still able to average a rating of 7.42 over the season. Not many bad games under his name until now.


The Boss Exclusive Interview:
With the recent news that 3 of his players have snubbed their club's respective contract expansion, many are wondering why this trend has started between his players. The Boss has been blamed by some of the media as well as some of the team's fans, who are willing to see these players stay with the team.

The Boss' Statement redirected the blame away from himself by saying: 'The 3 players who have snubbed the contracts believe in their ability and know that they deserve better than what they are getting.' He continued by giving an example about one of his players. 'Albert Molist Mora is a great example and they must all be following his step. My team and I, The Boss, always believed in our players' ability and have always tried to give them the best deals. Mora for one, always believed in his ability and you can tell from his first contract talk when he started Sevilla.' Albert, when signed with Sevilla, started with the youth team and straight away snubbed his first contract extension by demanding a guaranteed first team and a higher payment. Sevilla didn't bite and let him go. Same happened with Barcelona until Racing jumped in and signed the young 18 year old to a $20k a week deal.

'Mora knew exactly what he deserved. Many teams wanted his services and we advised him to go to better teams. But he knew that with Racing, he had the chance to prove himself and the team promised him that they will try and build the team around him. He loved the challenge and took it. Other players under The Boss, having seen his successful belief, might have decided that it was about time to follow suit.' Thus the reason why 3 players have decided to put their contracts on hold. Knowing that they have a bright future ahead, they are willing to see what other teams, hopefully better teams, will offer them before them a decision.

Other News:
- MLS Season starts midway through the Month of March. Many of The Boss fans will be following Kansas City's Jose Gainza to see how can improve this year.
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[Harriers09]

Not just a Bottomtoucher...a bottomkicker too

 

[Average Joe]

2 matches, seems like I'm only ever going to play a few games a season at Man City

 

[Harriers09]

update me

 

[CrookdMoe]

Wow, it feels like its been a while. Wait... it has. Sorry for the slow update these past few days. Work, going out and than football weekend that ended with a Super Sunday to say the least. Seeing how its my day off today, why not give you guys a few updates and hopefully get the 2013-2014 season done by the end of the day if possible.

March Updates:

Morten Jonsson suffer his first 'serious' injury of his career. He near the end of the month, he suffered a MCL Sprain that will see him miss Braga matches until mid-April. He suffered his injury during the encounter against AC Milan in Europa League knockout stages. Which hey lost 2-2 on aggregate due to away goals from Milan. Braga have played 3 matches without Jonsson and they have been doing well without him. Winning 2 matches and drawing 1 (One win coming vs Benfica in the Portuguese League Cup Semi-Finals). Sources say that Jonsson might be back just in time to take on Sporting in the Portuguese League Cup Finals.

Bottomtoucher with another bang for your buck performance when it really counted. CONCACAF Semi-Finals, away at Philadelphia. With their away form in question through out the first half of the season, Bottomtoucher and Chivas have really turned it around since January. This night though, it was Bottomtoucher with the final say as he scored 2 goals in 9 minutes. The game finished 3-0 for Chivas with the return leg still to play. No doubt they will be going to the Finals now. In the League, they are as dominant. Reginald has helped them cement first place after 13 games. 9 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss... coming at home.

Both Portsmouth and Leicester City have been holding on to their mid-table positions quite strongly. But with the end of the season starting to get closer, they will both have to start putting in extra effort to make it into the play-offs. With 6 matches left to play, every point counts and both teams are only 4 points out of contention.

What went wrong with Racing in March is unbelievable. With 4 of their 6 matches in March being at home, many would have given the surprise team of the season a good chance for them to finish in the top half of the table. It wasn't to be so, drawing their first match of the month away from home, things looked bright for Santander. By the end of the month, they lose the rest of their 5 matches, 4 of them being at home, and has seen them slide back down the table to 14th. Luckily for them, they are still 6 points away from relegation, but they will have to find a way to change their fortunes or else they will face relegation right in the face. All this though, is to show you how important Albert Molist Mora is to the team. He is the backbone of the team. In the beginning of the month, vs Espanyol that ended in a draw, Molist Mora sustained Groin Strain. The injury saw him miss the rest of the month, which for Racing was the most crucial month of the season.

Other News:
Nothing much going on at the moment. All teams concentrating hard with the end of the season for many leagues coming to an end. Oh...and its the Summer of World Cup. Ya'll ready to see who's winning it? Brazil will be dancing through out the summer when the best players in the world make their way to the country where in summer, the ladies' skin is their clothes.



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[CrookdMoe]

April Updates:

Bottomtoucher again put Philadelphia to the sword in the return leg. Playing at home, Reginald put two shots past his opponent's keeper to raise his goal tally to 7 goals in the CONCACAF Champions League. With 4 goals coming in the Semi-Finals. With their win in the Semi-Finals, they will go head to head with Morelia in the Finals. In the Finals, Chivas proved to be too strong for Morelia. First match was at home, raping Morelia 6-0 to put their moral to the pits. Come the 2nd leg, Morelia, at home, were able to put 4 past Chivas...but not without conceding 3 themselves. Chivas, becoming CONCACAF Champions League Champions with a 9-4 aggregate score. On the way, trashing the record for the most goals scored in CONCACAF Champions League with 45 goals. Back in Mexico, Reginald and Chivas were to finish the season with only 1 loss and top the league with a new record. A record for the most points accumulated in one season, 42 points. First match of the Quarter Finals saw them win 2-1 away from home vs Jaguares. Giving them a firm advantage before the return leg.

With 3 matches left to play, both Leicester and Portsmouth have guaranteed a place in the nPower Championship next season. They wont be taking part in the playoffs as the minimum points needed is 70 points and both teams wont be able to reach that many. Andrew Page, coming to Portsmouth when they were bottom, helped them move up to a mid-table position and solidify himself as a good leader and motivator. In 23 matches, he has scored 2 goals and 4 assists for Pompey. While James Beadle, for Leicester City, made 21 appearances, scoring 3 and assisting 1 goal. Not to forget his serious injury that saw him miss 2 months.

Benji and Joe Williams may have only played a combined 13 matches for Manchester City, they would be proud to be part of the team that will be going to the Champions League Finals to meet the ever strong, Barcelona. Manchester City beat PSG 5-4 on aggregate in the Semi-Finals. While in the League, they are in 6th place and are running a thin line of not making it to next year's Champions League.

Jarl Horak and Benfica will be gutted to have lost to Tottenham in the Europa League Quarter Finals. Losing 3-1 on aggregate. In the League, they are now in 2nd place, 7 points behind League leaders, FC Porto, and only 1 point ahead of Braga.

As for Braga, 3rd in the Liga ZON Sagreb, have lost the League Cup Finals against Sporting on Penalty Kick. Jonsson would have been the second of 'The Boss' generation player to have won a trophy, but it would be so. Jonsson was said to have been very upset. Playing a near perfect game, Sporting were able to level the score in the final stage of the match and go on to win it in Penalty Kicks.

Racing were happy to get Molist Mora back into the line-up. With him back in the starting eleven, they were able to hold on to their position in the lower half of the league table. But they will now be facing tough opposition. Losing to Barcelona on the final match of the month, they are now sitting in 15th with 5 points seperating them to the relegation zone. Their first of the 2 finals matches of the season will be a visit to Madrid to take on Los Merengues.

For Sporting KC, they haven't had the best of starts of the season. After 8 matches, they sit on 10 points, 2 points behind the playoffs spot. But all 4 teams ahead have a 2 game in hand advantage. Jose Gainza, for his part, has become a regular figure in the team. Starting 5 and appearing the 3 others as substitutions. He has only got 1 assist under his belt, but his performances have been very solid.

Other News:
-World Cup Draw-
The Groups for the World Cup to be held in Brazil have been drawn and here are the teams in every Group. There doesn't seem to be a group of death in this year's World Cup Tournament. Which many would say its a dissapointement as there wont be much to talk about. But if there is any Group to write about, maybe Group C would be one.

Group A: Brazil - USA - Angola - Austria
Group B: Turkey - France -Colombia - Australia
Group C: Japan - Spain - Argentina - Costa Rica
Group D: Slovenia - England - Uruguay - Iran
Group E: Portugal - Tunisia - Paraguay - Israel
Group F: South Korea - Norway - Nigeria - Germany
Group G: Chile - Cameroon - Slovekia - Mexico
Group H: Scotland - Italy - Canada - Algeria

- There are talks that Cristiano Ronaldo could pick up Champions League Best Player award. Even though his team, Real Madrid, crashed out of the Champions League in the Semi-Finals to Barcelona on an aggregate score of 7-2. But many believe that the award will go to a Barcelona player under the name, you guessed it, Messi.

- In the next update, The Boss will release the list of his players that will be making a trip to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup. Most likely Reginald Bottomtoucher will be the only one to make it. But it all depends on the Mexican Manager. Surely he can't look to far, Bottomtoucher has been setting the Mexican League AND the CONCACAF Champions League a blaze with his depth touches, passing and vision for goal. Others think that maybe Molist Mora might get a call to make the trip with Spain.
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[W4FC B3N]

13 games combined, looks like us two are the future of City! Champions League final as well noice!