(Hopefully) Not a Swan Song: A Swansea City Story

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Aw, Yeah!

Pre season


Transfers in:

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Antoine Griezmann £21M

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Patrick Van Aanholt £825k

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Nathaniel Clyne £6.75M

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Frank Lampard (Free)

Outgoings:

Craig Gordon to Rangers £1M (£1M profit)

Ki to Feyenoord £7M (£2M profit)

Ashley Williams to West Brom £15.25M (£14.8M profit)

Leon Britton to Norwich £1.7M (£1.6M profit)



Well I am very happy with my dealings. I think getting Van Aanholt for that cheap was quite impressive and we could do a lot worse for backup. Lampard and clyne are here to help with the Home Grown rules and Lampard brought in some shirt sales. I am a bit annoyed about Leon Britton leaving but he wanted 55 grand a week an he isn't getting that!​
 
Yay we scraped past Southampton 1-0. Sadly Simao and suarez are out for 2 months and Destro has broken his leg! I think i'm gonna take a break (no pun intended) .....
 
hows the save going.... I got Swansea to champs league last 16 3rd season, but lost to Bayern... However got offered the barca job, and just had to accept, now i am just deciding who i want to take with me... definitely lamela, he is brilliant!!!
 
Interested to know what set up you have regarding your match prep/training..After playing about 4 games my strikers are still yet to score..and have had pretty average ratings..Could this be down to poor match prep?
 
Gonna return to the save on Monday so i'll tell you the match prep and return to the updates then.
 
I'm gonna return to this save so expect the updates to resume soon...
 
September


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Forgive me if i'm a bit rusty at this.


Fixtures:

Swansea 1 - 0 Southampton
Michu

Europa League Group A
Swansea 1 - 0 Zaragoza
Chico Flores

West Brom 0 - 0 Swansea

Capital One Cup Round 3
Swansea 3 - 0 Derby
Griezeman(2) and Graham

Swansea 2 - 5 Stoke
Michu(2)


Well we are just outside the relagation zone at the moment so all is not well at the Liberty. If (and its a big if) I still have a job in January my signings will help us out, but surviving that long will be hard. Michu and Okore have come to ***** at me about underachieving.


 
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Swansea chairman ^

October

Fixtures



Europa League
Feyenoord 0 -1 Swansea
Graham

Blackburn 2 - 1 Swansea
Dyer

Swansea 1 - 0 Man Utd

Metalist 2 - 1 Swansea
Graham

Capital one cup 4th round
Swansea 3 - 0 Oldham
Dyer, Ademilson and Griezemann



Still just outside the drop zone and its looking a bit dicey. Yet more players complaining.​
 

October

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Michu <3

Fixtures:

Everton 1 - 2 Swansea
Felipe Anderson and Ademilson

Swansea 3 - 0 Metalist
Dempsey, Michu and own goal

Swansea 2 - 3 Chelsea
Ademilson and Michu

West Ham 1 - 3 Swansea
Michu and Ademilson(2)

Swansea 1 - 0 QPR
Kjaer

Swansea 3 - 0 Ipswitch
Michu(2) and Kjaer

Swansea 2 - 0 Newcastle
Dempsey and Weiss


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(Kept forgetting these, sorry)


A change of tactics and a team meeting seem to have done the trick! Kjaer has been very solid both attacking and defending, Ademilson is scoring for the first time in god knows how long and Michu, well Michu is a god among men. Maybe i will keep my job after all!​
 
December

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He's actually scoring!

Fixtures

Capital one cup Qtr finals
Brighton 0 - 2 Swansea
Rory Donnelly and Ademilson

Zaragoza 0 - 2 Swansea
Ademilson (2)

Burnley 1 - 1 Swansea
Ademilson

Hull 0 - 1 Swansea
Nem

Swansea 3 - 3 Man City
Okore, Griezemann and own goal

Feyenoord 1 - 0 Swansea

Swansea 2 - 1 Norwich
Felipe Anderson and Destro Pen (His first game back)

Swansea 0 - 1 Arsenal

Liverpool 0 - 0 Swansea

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Mid table mediocrity is much better than a relegation fight! Plus we are about to be bolstered by my new signings too. Have been scouting around and there may be some interesting free transfers coming up...​
 
Just signed a new contract, so my job should be safe. For this year atleast. The signings have arrived too.
 
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