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

[Darthpootle]

Me^
Pre Season


Transfers

Oscar £13M

Mbaye Niang Free

Alex Sandro £12.5M

Marc Andre Ter Stegen £9M

Ruben Pardo £26M


Out

Mattia Destro £22M to Everton

Danny Graham £2.3M to Notts Forest

Nathan Dyer £7.5M to Everton

Chico £4.6M to Blackburn

Neil Taylor £20M to Everton


Pretty good buissness methinks. Everton got taken over by billionares hence the ridculous spending.

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[banger93]

20M FOR NEIL TAYLOR :0 well done, some really good signings

 

[Darthpootle]

20M FOR NEIL TAYLOR :0 well done, some really good signings

I think Everton have more money than sense.

 

[Darthpootle]

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Well thats just harsh.

 

[Darthpootle]

August

Fixtures

Community Shield
Man City 2 - 3 Swansea
Cavani, Richards and Nem

Swansea 1 - 0 Everton
Own goal

Man City 0 - 1 Swansea
Niang

Euro Super Cup
Real Madrid 3 - 1 Swansea
Cavani


Another trophy! A worthless one, but still a trophy. I am annoyed about our baptism of fire in Champions League but the objective is gonna be to outperform Vaslui and not get completely destroyed.​

 

[banger93]

Easy group and please tell me it was a Neil Taylor own goal against Everton?

 

[Darthpootle]

Easy group and please tell me it was a Neil Taylor own goal against Everton?

Sadly not. Ciaran Clark repaying the 15M they spent on him. Dyer and Destro didn't even play for them. £30M well spent then.

 

[banger93]

haha

 

[JMata10]

whats the skin?

 

[Darthpootle]

The dark version of the default skin.

 

[Darthpootle]

September

Guess where we are going...



Fixtures:

Swansea 4 - 2 Stoke
Griezmann, Michu and Richards(2)

Champions League
Swansea 8 - 0 Fc Vaslui
Ademilson(2), Doumbia, Cavani(2), Shaqiri and Campbell(2)

Fulham 2 - 2 Swansea
Ademilson and Doumbia

Capital One Cup 3rd Round
Swansea 3 - 1 Watford
Pedraza, Suarez and Niang

Southampton 2 - 3 Swansea
Cavani, Doumbia and Nem pen

Champions League
Barcelona 0 - 0 Swansea

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What a start to our european campaign! The Vaslui was very enjoyable to watch, with the 19 year old Campbell scoring two after coming on in the 65th minute. I am very proud after our respectable draw at the Nou Camp. Maybe we will make it through the group of death after all! Next month: to Milan!​

 

[Darthpootle]

October

Fixtures:

Swansea 1 - 0 West Ham
Doumbia

Swansea 2 - 0 West Brom
Allen and Cavani

Champions League
Inter Milan 1 - 4 Swansea
Cavani(2) and Shaqiri(2)

QPR 0 - 1 Swansea
Ademilson

Capital One Cup 4th Round
Swansea 2 - 1 Man City After E.T
Pamic and Oscar

Liverpool 0 - 2 Swansea
Two Michu penalties

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Everything is going great at the Liberty! More European sucsess and top of the BPL!

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[KiloCody]

I'm loving your success lol. I don't know if I've missed it or something but what tactic are you using?

 

[Darthpootle]

I tend to change alot, but this is the current one:
4-3-3 Kun^^ Barcelona style - Downloads - Football Manager 2013 Tactics, Wonderkids & Cheats

And this is the current first choice team:
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[Darthpootle]

November

V

Fixtures

Champions League
Swansea 3 - 0 Inter Milan
Shaqiri, Ademilson and Ibrahimovic

Arsenal 2 - 0 Swansea

Champions League
Fc Vaslui 2 - 3 Swansea
Own goal and Ibrahimovic(2)

Swansea 4 - 2 Wigan
Doumbia, Cavani(2) and Ibrahimovic pen

Blackburn 2 - 3 Swansea
Cavani, Griezmann and Shaqiri

Swansea 3 - 0 Norwich
Richards, Shaqiri and Ibrahimovic

Champions League
Swansea 3 - 2 Barcelona
Shaqiri, Ademilson and Ibrahimovic

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Ibra is back! Scoring in all three CL games, including a winner against his former club, Barca. Which means that in our first season in the Champions League we qualify top from the group of death! Shaqiri has been on fire with assists and goals as well. We have drawn Man Utd and Bradford City in the cups, which are both teams i support. Typical.

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[Darthpootle]

December

Fixtures

Newcastle 1 - 2 Swansea
Ibrahimovic and Niang

Capital One Cup Qtr Final
Man Utd 3 - 2 Swansea
Shaqiri(2)

Swansea 2 - 2 Chelsea
Cavani(2 inc. pen)

Swansea 2 - 0 Spurs
Ademilson(2)

Notts Forest 1 - 4 Swansea
Niang(2) and Michu(2 inc. pen)

Wolves 0 - 3 Swansea
Oscar, Allen and Pedraza

Everton 1 - 2 Swansea
Destro - Shaqiri and Cavani


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Things are going well. Bit dissapointed with the league cup but, oh well. As you can see Destro scored against us, the traitor lol. There maybe some interesting deals next month.....

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[Darthpootle]

January

Transfers:

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Go Hasumi £6.75M

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Zhu Kao £500K

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Alejandro Marroquin £800K

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Aitor Torres Free (end of season)

Robinho Free (end of season)

Pepe The Destroyer Free (end of season)

Gareth Bale £24M


Going out was Angel Rangel to Wigan for 800K.


Fixtures

Spurs 1 - 2 Swansea
Oscar and Clyne

FA Cup 3rd Round
Bradford City 2 - 3 Swansea ( :'( )
Shaqiri and 2 Saidi pens

Swansea 5 - 0 Fulham
Okore, Ademilson, Ibrahimovic and Allen(2)

Stoke 1 - 2 Swasnea
Oscar and Cavani

Man City 2 - 1 Swansea
Allen

FA Cup 4th Round
Swansea 3 - 2 Everton
Pedraza, Shaqiri and Cavani

West Ham 1 - 5 Swansea
Cavani (3) and Niang(2)


Good month overall. The only low points were losing to Man City and beating Bradford. Very pleased with the buissiness and I am itching to see how Bale will do. Hasumi has some real potential but he seems to be injury prone. Boosted shirt sales in Japan though.​

 

[banger93]

good signings buddy

 

[Darthpootle]

good signings buddy

Thanks. Bale had a great debut as you'll see next update.

 

[Darthpootle]

February

Our next European destination


Fixtures:

Swansea 3 - 0 QPR
Oscar(2) and Bale

Champions League 1st Knockout
Lisbon 2 - 2 Swansea
Cavani and Niang

FA Cup 5th round
Swansea 3 - 1 Aston Villa
Griezzman and Cavani(2)

Swansea 2 - 0 Southampton
Ademilson(2)

Swansea 2 - 0 Liverpool
Richards and Ibrahimovic

West Brom 0 - 2 Swansea
Nem(2)

Champions League
Swansea 3 - 0 Lisbon
Okore(2) and Oscar



Into the quarter finals! I really am amazed at how well this season is going. The defence was a bit shaky to start with but the partner ship of Kjaer and Richards is working wonders. Ofcourse the reason we are doing this well is our world class attack force. Shaqiri is setting assist records left, right and centre, and a choice of a couple of the best strikers in the world. The Liberty is a fortress and i intend to exploit that for all it's worth!​