Ipswich Town: Kick Starting the Tractor

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April 2015

Premiership
Everton 2 - 2 Ipswich

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Wickham gets a goal on his debut, a good away point even having taken the lead twice.

FA CUP
Wolves 0 - 2 Ipswich

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We have made it too our first final and we will face Manchester City at Wembley with a chance to play in europe.


Premiership
Ipswich 0 - 0 Manchester City

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A warm up for the FA Cup final, If we play like this we have a huge chance for silverware.


Premiership
Chelsea 4 - 0 Ipswich

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An awful display could have lost by 10, hopefully we can turn it around quickly.

Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 1 Swansea

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Went for a standard 4,4,2 to get both forwards on the field.
Both got on the score sheet early and we held on with another poor team performance.


May 2015


Premiership
 Southampton 2 - 1 Ipswich

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Have been trying out a variety of formations and players to try and resolve this possession issue. Nothing seems to work as of yet but at least we have been keeping the scores close and stealing the odd result.

Premiership
 Ipswich 3 - 2 West Ham

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A great comeback albeit against a poor West Ham side.
Colclough injury will keep him out for the final 2 games.


FA CUP FINAL
Ipswich 2 - 1 Manchester City

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A fantastic win played a very conservative style and countered well.
City had a last minute goal denied to hand us the trophy.


Premiership
Cardiff 1 - 1 Ipswich
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Cradiff out performed us so happy with the point to end the season.
Is quite fitting really given how many games we have drawn.


Final Premiership Table
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A really tight league see's Southampton take the League, Manchester City and Tottenham missing out on european football. We cap off our first year in the top flight with a top ten finish.


Players Stats

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Only Ipswich player to make a mark Is Landu only 1 goal off Rhodes who continues to be a fawn in our side.


Years Statistics

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Hunte didn't get many starts this year as he suffered quite a few injury's. Hopefully we can get another guy contributing to the score sheet as Landu carried the team in that regard. Hopefully Grace and Wickham can get into double figures next season.


Job Offers

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Not interested in moving away from Portman Road so turned down my first interview.

Let me know if their is any info you would like to see from the past season.

Looking forward to Ipswich in Europe.
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Liking it so far! 1 question: How do you make your screenshots so large? When I 'Insert Images' they're a fraction the size of yours
 
Maximus94 said:
Liking it so far! 1 question: How do you make your screenshots so large? When I 'Insert Images' they're a fraction the size of yours
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They come up small for me too. Just have to double click the image and a pop comes up where you can change the image to Large.

Thanks for reading.
 
Alright mate, liking the story, could you post a screenie of Nkusu Landu and Connor Hunte please? cheers pal
 
Season 15/16

Season Expectations
This year our goals will be to achieve a mid table position and to get out of the group stage in the Euro Cup.
I have a 20 Million budget, however I will most likely move it to 10 Million to allow for a larger wage allowance.


Transfers

Out

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A lot of old contracts came to an end, Loach has been great the past 2 years but want to start getting Henly some more playing time so couldn't turn down the bid from Chelsea. A lot of youngsters have gone out on Loan most notably Hunte who I sent to our feeder club Crewe.


IN

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This year went and brought in a couple of guys with Premiership experience but still with 10+ years ahead of them. They will all have starting roles.

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Thorne joins from a relegated West Brom side, He adds a versatile body in the middle.

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Our back four has been a consistent throughout the past 2 seasons but Chambers is starting to tail off. Coates will join Smith as CB starting pair with Hurst and Uvini will be rotated in. I will look to move on Chambers in January if this pairing works out.

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Morrison joins from another relegated team in West Ham. Another versatile guy can play in 4 different roles in various formations we play in, hopefully can add some flair.


Premiership Transfers


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August 2015

Community Shield
Ipswich 4 - 3 Southampton

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Great comeback from being down 3 early. Ward-Prowse was a summer target of mine and had a great 1st Half. Landu still in goal scoring mode, Hopefully that last's all year.

Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 0 Tottenham

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Great late win to start the year.


Breaking Transfer News

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Having no one really flourish at these winger positions decided to grab another young and fast kid.
He can also play MR in 4,4,2 where we don't have a natural player.
Starting to use that formation more in an attempt to get both Wickham and Landu on the field at the same time.


Premiership
Reading 3 - 5 Ipswich

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A Landu Hat-trick, Hyam's sending off put us under a little more pressure.
although we scored 3 goals when down to 10 men.

Premiership
 Manchester United 0 - 0 Ipswich

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Great away point, we were really under the gun a defensive point if there was ever one.


Euro Cup

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We have been drawn in a tough group Lyon will be favorites to go through. Hopefully we can be competitive, Trabzonspor should be winnable games and Sparta Prague games will decide the look of the group.


September 2015


Premiership
Everton 0 - 1 Ipswich

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A late surge by Everton couldn't grab a point. Landu with yet another goal.

Euro Cup
Ipswich 1 - 0 Sparta Prague

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Great start to our European campaign.

League Cup
Ipswich 2 - 0 Brighton

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Played a very young side with the odd veteran and they played great. Grace had 2 goals disallowed.

Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 0 Aston Villa

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Henly has gone 5 games with a clean sheet. The early sending off helped our cause. Landu is averaging a goal a game hopefully he can continue this form or at least until Wickham and Grace start finding the net.


Premiership League Table

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Another great start to the season, the only goals we have conceded have been against reading when we had Hyam sent off. Henly has proven me right to let go of Loach and hand him he starting job.


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Hewitt who feels like he is a veteran on this squad tops Landu and Henly for Young Player of the Month.

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ZeroMusic said:
Cheers - seemed like a good season, considering your squad
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Thanks the back 4 has been great, think they have gotten us points we havnt really deserved. Hopefully start seeing more convincing midfield and attacking displays soon.
 
October 2015

Free Signing

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Another familiar face returns, Bent will add some experience up front and should help if have any injury's up front or if European football is hard on our young squad.

Euro Cup
Trabzonspor 0 - 2 Ipswich

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Great away win in Europe.

Premiership
 Burnley 1 - 2 Ipswich

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Good come back, Wickham only out of 4 days.

Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 1 Wigan

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Should have gotten the win had 2 Lingard goals disallowed. Ravel will miss 3 weeks of action.

Euro Cup
Lyon 0 - 0 Ipswich

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Defensive performance to grab a great away point.

Premiership
Cardiff 1 - 1 Ipswich

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Sqaud is getting tired and lacking depth with injury's.
Just couldn't hold on to the win. Hurst will miss 3 weeks.

Premiership
 Ipswich 1 - 1 Chelsea

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3 Games in a week and draw them all.

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Injury's piling up, Record signing Colclough will be missed for the rest of the season.

Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 1 Stoke

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A good win to end a hard month. Fatigue entered in late allowing a lot of chances for Stoke late,
one resulting in a goal

November 2015


League Cup
Ipswich 2 - 0 Leicester

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Good win with a lot of the youngsters on the field with Lyon game in 2 days.

Euro Cup
Ipswich 3 - 3 Lyon

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Great back and forth game to stay unbeaten in Europe with a great chance to get out of the group stages.

Premiership
Arsenal 1 - 3 Ipswich

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Bent grabs his first goal in his return and was his 50th career goal for the club.
Hopefully this starts him off on a run as Landu is really struggling for form.
A great counter attacking performance once we took the lead.

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Our first England Cap goes to the Captain Hyam,
whilst most of the squad got a well needed break for international games.


Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 1 Norwich

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Bent strikes again to get a point when we deserved more.

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Another big loss for us, although Morrison will return in a week or so.


Euro Cup
Sparta Prague 1 - 3 Ipswich

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This sealed our spot in the next round. A great comeback after going down to a questionable penalty.

Premiership
Ipswich 3 - 0 Q.P.R.
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Bent is finding the next as the other forwards struggle. Good to see goals from allover the park.


December 2015

Premiership
Manchester City 3 - 0 Ipswich

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We really struggled against a strong City side.

Premiership
Liverpool 1 - 0 Ipswich

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A tough run of games sends us to back to back losses. Again a very poor performance.

Euro Cup
Ipswich 3 - 1 Trabzonspor

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We end the group stages level with Lyon in all stats, but somehow they take 1st spot,
I assume on away goals there goals at Portman Road.


League Cup
Ipswich 0 - 1 Stoke

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First competition we find ourselfs out off. Not to bad losing to a strong Stoke side when I put out a rotated side.


Premiership
Ipswich 0 - 1 Swansea

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Another League loss yet again conceding late.

Premiership
Ipswich 3 - 1 Southampton

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Great comeback against last year champions that find themselves at the bottom of the table this year.
Grace got a start with the build up of games and he made a point for more starts.


Premiership
Brighton 1 - 1 Ipswich
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Ravels first game back from injury coming off the bench to grab us an away point.

Premiership
Tottenham 0 - 2 Ipswich

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Great away win against the League leaders.


Premiership League Table

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At the end of the year and in a spot to challenge for Champions league football. Southampton's struggles could be in our favour to grab some off their talent if they fail to stay up this year.


Awards

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Tommy Smith Win's Oceania Player of the year. He has been great for us over the past 3 years and is only 25.
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January 2016

Transfers In

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To start the year added some more young Blood.

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Jacobsen comes in on a free he will get some playing time early with mounting injury's in midfield.

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Duffy will back up Hewitt at RB.

FA CUP
Tottenham 0 - 1 Ipswich

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Bent got the winner on a counterattacking move against his former club.


Premiership
Newcastle 1 - 0 Ipswich

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3 games in 6 days meant we put out a weak side and they struggled against an average Newcastle side.


Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 3 Manchester United

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Could have stolen a point late with Wickham having disallowed late.


Premiership
Chelsea 4 - 1 Ipswich

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Bony my main Target last summer tore us apart.


Premiership
Ipswich 4 - 1 Reading

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A good attacking performance to to end a 3 game losing streak.


FA CUP
Ipswich 1 - 0 Sunderland

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Wickham started against his former club and made them pay for letting him go.


Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 0 Everton

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Coates with a header from a corner making the only difference in a tight game.


Premiership
Ipswich 4 - 1 Burnley

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Bent with a Hat trick to end a high scoring month.


Transfers Out

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Siegrist wanted 1st team football so had to let him go, with Henly playing great.
Nouble contract ends at the end of the year, so cashed in on him before he left on a free.
Chambers also became disgruntled at the lack of 1st team football, so he will go to Celtic till the end of the year and hopefully I can sell him on in the summer.

February 2016


Premiership
Aston Villa 1 - 2 Ipswich

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Gunn has been playing more on the right-side of midfield apposed to RB.
He came up with a last gasp goal to take all three points.


Premiership
Wigan 0 - 1 Ipswich

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A nice winning streak continued with Lingard's strike.


FA CUP
Ipswich 0 - 2 Manchester Untied

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We played great up until the last 20 and Untied took advantage.


Europa League
Ipswich 0 - 0 Levante

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Disappointing not to grab a couple of goals but makes the second leg easy,
with a score draw or win taking us into the next round.


Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 0 Cardiff

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We are on a great run in the league currently.
With a rotated starting 11 we took a convincing win and performance.


Europa League
Levante 0 - 1 Ipswich

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Levante played deep the whole game and made it hard for us to break them down,
We finally grabbed a winner in injury time in extra time.


Free Signing

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Our Danish scout found us another free gem, he will finish this year in the U21 side.


Premiership
Norwich 4 - 4 Ipswich

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Gunn had a great game, we could have taken all 3 points with Wickham having a goal disallowed and then a penalty challenge not go his way in injury time.


Premiership League Table

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A great start to the year, we stand in a strong position to qualify for Champions League football next year.
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Just read all of this, you seem to be doing amazing with Ipswich, keep it up and make sure you get that champions league spot. The finance will help so much:D
 
FireryLife said:
Just read all of this, you seem to be doing amazing with Ipswich, keep it up and make sure you get that champions league spot. The finance will help so much:D
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Thanks for reading, Hopefully we can grab one but will be tricky as coming up to a dense run of games. Either European competition will be great but mainly for building up the prestige, Have a lot of players not interested in even negotiating.
 
Brilliant story, great lay out and a very interesting read. I shall defiantly be following closely, keep up the good work!
 
March 2016


Injury News

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Good news to start the Month, with Colclough returning soon. The injury has really hit his progression.



Premiership
Stoke 2 - 2 Ipswich
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Stoke have been a hard opponent for us, especially when they picked up Rhodes.
This was the first time he hasn't scored against us.


Europa League
Stuttgart 1 - 1 Ipswich

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Good away goal, was a shame we couldn't hold on to the clean sheet after going down to ten men.


Premiership
Ipswich 2 - 1 Arsenal

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A great comeback win and a really strong home performance.


Europa League
Ipswich 1 - 0 Stuttgart

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Really dominate showing keeping the European dream alive.


Premiership
Ipswich 3 - 2 Manchester City

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Great comeback, Bent had 2 shots, both hit the back of the net.


Europa League
Ipswich 4 - 1 A.C. Milan

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After going down early thought it could get ugly, how wrong I was. What a fantastic run of games for us.


April 2016

Premiership
Q.P.R. 3 - 2 Ipswich

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Had a put out a weak side as squad is really worn down. Really unlucky not to take a point.



Europa League
A.C. Milan 2 - 1 Ipswich

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An early away goal eased any worry, Mario's late winner took a little gloss of the final result,
but we will be playing in the semi finals.


Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 1 Liverpool

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We had so many chances to score and 3 goals disallowed.


Premiership
 Swansea 3 - 1 Ipswich

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We got overrun the whole game, was pretty awful game for us.


Europa League
Galatasaray 2 - 3 Ipswich

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A busy first half, then went for a counter attacking style in the 2nd to hold a lead and good away goal advantage when head home.


Premiership
Southampton 1 - 0 Ipswich

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Another awful game in the League, Lots of little injury's and fatigue hurting us with 2 games a week.



Europa League
Ipswich 4 - 3 Galatasaray

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7 - 5 on aggregate will take us to the final. Knott and Gunn have been great in the stretch.


May 2016


Premiership
Ipswich 0 - 1 Newcastle

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Another awful performance at home.


Premiership
Ipswich 0 - 2 Brighton

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Coates sent off after 1 minute really hurt our whole season, Terrible final 6 weeks.



Premiership Final Standings

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I shouldn't have rotated the Team as much at the end of the year,
We miss out on European football next year on goal difference and we need to win against Porto to qualify.


Stats around the League

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Only Cresswell made the final player stats.



New Club Link

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Look out for some preseason trips to Argentina
Europa League Final
Porto 2 - 1 Ipswich

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We didn't play well thought we could grab a winner when Porto went down to 10 men but the opposite happened.



Club Upgrades

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I asked the boardroom to buy the Stadium so we can develop the ground.



Job Offers


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Big Appointments in the Premiership

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Season 16/17


Season Goals

This year we won't see European football after making the Europa Cup final,
So we will be looking to qualify via League standing this year.
Alongside this goal I am to start pushing the board into expanding,
or building a new stadium to grow the club further.

We have a transfer budget of 28 Million, so I will be most likely looking for a Forward.
Landu has had to many droughts in front of the goal last season.
Bent is physically declining and Wickham seems to get hurt ever other game.
Grace and Collier look like great prospects, and will be getting some playing time with the first team up front.

Defensively I'll be looking at a true beast CB as we only have Hurst coming through the youth system.
Last year that was one area I found we were lacking in depth coming down the home stretch.



Transfers In

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My first year spending big breaking our transfer record not once but twice. In between the big buys were some great free additions primarily which were made in January, such as Egan whom now with the acquisition of Toloi and Danek will not even see the bench, unless the plague hits our CB's


Transfer Breakdowns

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Mrcela is touted to be a world class midfielder, only 15 and he will be getting some playing time.

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Ward-Prowse was a target last summer but Southampton wanted 12+ Million for him,
After their bad year for Southampton they let him go for quite a bit less.
Adds a lot to the middle with great work rate and passing.
Will look to improve his Tackling and he will be a well rounded CM.

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Djordjevic hopefully will be the solution up front, adds some international experience that will be good to rub off of the young Forwards that we have developing.

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Mujika comes in as I have had a tough time keeping hold of a backup keeper. Will have this young Spaniard on the bench ever week and playing for the U21's in an attempt to appease him.

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Correa was our coup of the free transfers pinching him from Real Madrid. Also with our new Argentinian feeder club he will help whenever bring in youngsters from their ranks.

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Said is not as finished an article as Djordjevic, so he will be going straight out on Loan to Crewe. Hopefully that will speed up his development and worst case he becomes a healthy profit in a couple of years, if not a contributor.

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Toloi is an old FM favorite of mine, was offered him by Inter and couldn't turn him down. A bit older than I would normally pay out for but 25 for a CB is still a spring chicken.

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Danek is our CB for the future now, has all the attributes I want,
specifically Mental will become a great role model to come.
Perhaps over spent on him but I had just missed out on Balanta,
whom went to Manchester United for ?24 Million so the ?15 didn't feel so bad.



Transfer Out

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Santangelo left as wanted more playing time as a keeper so let him leave knowing who we had coming in for free.
Ibrahim and Holt both left for 3 Million each. Both had their moments but were not solid contributors.
So I couldn't turn down those offers as would be unlikely to resign in a couple of years.
Everyone else is going out on loan McNamara at Cardiff is the big one.
The Irish forward will be getting some Premiership starts,
and bring him back in time for Bents departure next year.


Preseason Fixtures

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Maybe started a little early and the first 2 games had pretty terrible fitness levels.
Lots of goals, perhaps conceding a few to many. But had a nice travel around the globe,
and team looks fresh into the new season.


August 2016

Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 0 Aston Villa

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Djordjevic came off the bench in the start of the first half and scored with the first touch in an Ipswich shirt.
Great start to the season.


Premiership
Tottenham 1 - 2 Ipswich

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Colclough now fully fit after his leg break last year, He had a great game.
In which we held on under some pressure late on.


Capital One Cup
Ipswich 1 - 1 Tranmere
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Played a rotated side and they just couldnt hold on late. Game went to penalties,
Mujika in his first start saved 2. Will keep him in throughout this competition as a reward.



Premiership
Ipswich 1 - 0 Manchester United

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We found our self's under a lot of pressure but the defense stayed strong fantastic result.



Premier League Table
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Early in the season but a great start.


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Henly really has been a great keeper for us and is still only 21.


Deadline Transfer Deal

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Lingard whom arrived when we entered the Premiership, leaves for Hull.
He was struggling to get any playing time and only had a year left on his contract so happy with the profit.


Transfers Around the League

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The two Manchester Club's were the biggest spenders in The Premiership.
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This is an excellent story, good to see Ipswich back in the Premier League, my birth place! Have you had many quality players come through your own academy?
 
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