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I've decided to just do monthly updates for the next couple of months or so as I'm so far behind the story here.
The rest of December went like this ...
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The rest of December went very well with s just suffering defeat once.
Tottenham aside, the best result of the month has to be the 3-1 win over my old team Newcastle.
The 2-0 defeat against Man City was the only real disappointment of the month as they thoroughly deserved their victory.
Alexis Sanchex continued his good form this month and along with Robert Lewandowski, scored 3 goals each.
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We maintain 2nd spot and now go joint points with Man City who moved from 5th spot to top!
Chelsea are only 2 points behind us both and have 2 games in hand so it has to be advantage to them.
Most pleasing is that we're already 9 points clear of 5th place, which is currently occupied by Newcastle.
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The group stage of the Europa League also finished during December.
We had a couple of disappointing draws but still managed to stay unbeaten in all 6 group games.
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This run of wins meant we managed to finish top of group I, 4 points cleat of Athletico who snatched 2nd spot by finishing 2 points infront of Stuttgart.
After finishing top, we should have been given a more favourable draw in the 1st knockout round ...
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Rubin Kazan in the 1st knockout round proved the importance of finishing top of the group.
There's some big teams in this years Europa League, with Bayern, Dortmund, us and PSG battling it to be favourites.
With the transfer market about to open in just a couple of weeks I started looking at options ...
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I saw that Real Madrid had accepted offers from Liverpool and Monaco for Gareth Bale for a fee of just over £13 million ... I had to get involved with this so I immediately matched the offer and offered him a really good contract!
Bale obviously now had a decision to make ...
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How disappointing!!
Gareth Bale chooses Monaco instead of us both us and Liverpool.
I'm really gutted at this, I was really excited to see him, Sanchez and Lewandowski as an attacking 3. Sadly that is no longer a possibility!
I can only suspect that Bale turned us down due to us not being in the Champions League!
My next transfer option was more of a defensive option which is where we need to strengthen the most ...
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We had an offer accepted for ex Chelsea defender, David Luiz!
It's not a lot of money simply because his contract is due to expire in the summer but for such a small fee we may as well bring him in right away.
Sadly, this transfer didn't work out either ...
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Once again our transfer target turned us down, this time choosing Chelsea instead.
I can understand this decision a little more as Chelsea are champions of Europe and England so probably give Luiz a greater chance of silverware than we can.
Still disappointing though as we wait for the window to open before looking elsewhere.
There was one managerial change during December ...
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Liverpool sacked Carlo Ancelotti despite only appointing him in the summer.
He leaves Anfield with the club struggling in 14th spot having lost 4 games in a row.
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They immediately appointed Paco Jémez who saw an instant upturn in form with them finishing the month in 8th with 3 wins in a row since taking over.