I have decided to manage my local and favourite team Hibernian Football Club. As many of know the Scottish Premier league has been dominated for many years by the old firm and no other scottish side has a chance. I was going to restrict myself to signing only Scottish born players but i figure for the first few seasons i will have a tough enough job on my hands, but this is something that i plan to do a few seasons in. Anyway here goes!
Hibernian football club start with a transfer budget of 275k and a wage budget of 34k. This giving me only a spare 5k left of the transfer budget to play around with.
The current hibs team is not too bad but has been badly weakend over the past 5 years due to bigger clubs always buying our best players to keep the clubs finances balanced. The current first team is not bad a couple of the better players available are:
Gary O´conner - started his career at hibs before moving in a big money deal to Spartak Moscow, then a couple of years in England with likes of Birmingham city etc. He has definently returned a far better player for it and should be good for 20+ goals a season (well here´s hoping!)
Ivan Sproule - Very fast versatile right winger, who can take on the best of players and is also not shy of goal either.
Leigh Griffiths - Played for Dundee in the SPL before moving to Wolves where he did not make the cut, so he is now back on loan with us for the season. He was good goal scorer in fm 2011, so if he is of a similar level in the version then i will have a strikeforce that should be a handful for most SPL sides and maybe even the oldfirm.
Ian Murray - Versatile defender and Captain, who can play almost anywhere in defence and midfield. He had a spell at Rangers before returning to Hibs. He should be our rock at the back.
Daniel Galbraith - Born in Edinburgh but got his break a Manchester United but was released at the end of his contract due to injury, should also give us some good options on the left wing.
Apart from that the team has good depth but we still need to get a few more faces in before the season starts to strengthen some areas of the park. I will be looking to add a central defender, another stricker and a central midfielder.
Due to our lack of transfer budget and wage budget i will probably have to release a few of the first team to free up some extra money for wages. I have decided to release Shaun Welsh and Graham Stack, which has given me an extra 1.5k per week for wages.
After a quick look at the transfer market there does not really seem to be any decent players within our budget at the moment, so i have opted to bring in some experience through some free transfers. This is who we have managed to sign:
Marco Materazzi (37 yrs old) Free transfer Wages 2.5k. - Even at 37 years old a big name signing like this is surely a steal. He may even be the biggest named player to ever play for Hibs, well except for George Best! He will give the squad a great deal of experience and although he is a bit on the slow side im sure he will still be able to get around this with his experience.
Francis Jeffers - (32 yrs old) Free Transfer Wages=2.5k Another expierenced player, who back his his prime could bang in the goal, so lets hope he can find his best again
Richard Hughes - (32 yrs old) Free Transfer Wages = 1.7k. Another player who has premership experience and should bolster the midfield, he is also Scottish which is a bonus!
So thats probably the squad complete and i am confident that the squad should now be capable of finishing 3rd in my first season, but i will have a better understanding once we get some pre-season games underway.
Hibernian football club start with a transfer budget of 275k and a wage budget of 34k. This giving me only a spare 5k left of the transfer budget to play around with.
The current hibs team is not too bad but has been badly weakend over the past 5 years due to bigger clubs always buying our best players to keep the clubs finances balanced. The current first team is not bad a couple of the better players available are:
Gary O´conner - started his career at hibs before moving in a big money deal to Spartak Moscow, then a couple of years in England with likes of Birmingham city etc. He has definently returned a far better player for it and should be good for 20+ goals a season (well here´s hoping!)
Ivan Sproule - Very fast versatile right winger, who can take on the best of players and is also not shy of goal either.
Leigh Griffiths - Played for Dundee in the SPL before moving to Wolves where he did not make the cut, so he is now back on loan with us for the season. He was good goal scorer in fm 2011, so if he is of a similar level in the version then i will have a strikeforce that should be a handful for most SPL sides and maybe even the oldfirm.
Ian Murray - Versatile defender and Captain, who can play almost anywhere in defence and midfield. He had a spell at Rangers before returning to Hibs. He should be our rock at the back.
Daniel Galbraith - Born in Edinburgh but got his break a Manchester United but was released at the end of his contract due to injury, should also give us some good options on the left wing.
Apart from that the team has good depth but we still need to get a few more faces in before the season starts to strengthen some areas of the park. I will be looking to add a central defender, another stricker and a central midfielder.
Due to our lack of transfer budget and wage budget i will probably have to release a few of the first team to free up some extra money for wages. I have decided to release Shaun Welsh and Graham Stack, which has given me an extra 1.5k per week for wages.
After a quick look at the transfer market there does not really seem to be any decent players within our budget at the moment, so i have opted to bring in some experience through some free transfers. This is who we have managed to sign:
Marco Materazzi (37 yrs old) Free transfer Wages 2.5k. - Even at 37 years old a big name signing like this is surely a steal. He may even be the biggest named player to ever play for Hibs, well except for George Best! He will give the squad a great deal of experience and although he is a bit on the slow side im sure he will still be able to get around this with his experience.
Francis Jeffers - (32 yrs old) Free Transfer Wages=2.5k Another expierenced player, who back his his prime could bang in the goal, so lets hope he can find his best again
Richard Hughes - (32 yrs old) Free Transfer Wages = 1.7k. Another player who has premership experience and should bolster the midfield, he is also Scottish which is a bonus!
So thats probably the squad complete and i am confident that the squad should now be capable of finishing 3rd in my first season, but i will have a better understanding once we get some pre-season games underway.
) I bought Materazzi in to. I gotta say for an older player he is quite robust, rarely injured not to mention fantastic leader!