Pre-Season
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We was heading to America to play some pre-season fixtures and as a reward from last year the team performed so well so I thought that they deserved style. We will still be working hard as usual to get prepared for the season ahead of us. We want to go one better this year and make that Champions League ours.
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Transfers
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In's
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Matthew Dowse - Just a brilliant all round midfielder much in the mould of Steven Gerrard. Last year he run the park against us who was brilliant up against quality internationals. Hopefully can be the same for us.
Antonio Mendonca - A youth product which we hope to develop as a first team player
Francisco Manuel Pedraza - A boy who I am looking to get the best out of to justify his 4m fee. He will go out on loan before appearing in the team.
Maxim Migachev - The attacking midfielder which we recruited on a pre-contract from Zenit. He will give Mario Gomez competition for the attacking playmaker role.
Simone Brambilla - David is aging in goal and needs competition to keep him on his toes, Brambilla was getting first team action at Roma but is happy to be the understudy to de Gea, He will get his chance though.
Victor Bravo - A member of the Barcelona youth set up who was offered fresh terms for the Barcelona B team but is ambitious and wanted to challenge himself, provides cover all along the back for the team.
Rafik Bouregaa - Impressed in the Ligue 1 for Nantes, he is loaned out straight away to see if he can cut it in a higher league.
Igor Amer'yan - The hardman of Shakhtar. One of the best all round midfielders in Europe which we have managed to grab on a free. There will be lots of competition in the central-midfield spot this year and it can only be good to keep people on their toes.
Gregor Krcic - Teenager brought in from Switzerland. Notably caught my eye when watching the under 18s in the summer for their countries. He managed to dictate play with both of his feet.
Augustin Juhasz - Another youngster brought in to build for the future. He was featuring regularly in the Slovakia top division and put in some eye-catching performances.
Ante Boban - The Croatian brought in for a mearsly 1.2m I will track his progress as he ages but hope he can feature for the first team in the future.
Moritz Leitner - An ex-player who I managed at Dortmund. He was sold for big money to Tottenham while I was in charge, the lad is brilliant with the ball and has excellent technical abilities. I am delighted to work with him again and I'm sure he can provide us with extra class.
Nahuel Marra - A replacement for the outgoing David Alaba. He is younger and has a long future ahead of him, Alaba was 31 and his main attribute which was his blistering pace started to deteriorate and thought it was the correct time to move him on.
Total Spend: 75m
Out's:
Gerhard Westermann - Never could impress me in training or perform when called upon in the first team. The German will have more of an opportunity with Sheffield Wednesday.
Dominic Adkins - The same with Adkins, never impressed me and will have more of an opportunity at Sheffield Wednesday.
Enok Bremnes - The young Norweigen was sold to rivals Chelsea as he is approaching 20 and shown signs of potential but not enough to mount a first team place, we have an agreement in place that if he makes a international appearance Chelsea will pay us 3m.
David Alaba - As mentioned before, Alaba's legs are starting to deteriorate and I wanted to cash in while we still could. His wages of 275k a week are also off the bill which will free up more funds.
Neymar - One player I would have chosen to keep had the offer not been right. He is also aging but has plenty of ability still left in him as he demonstrated in the previous campaign. We can replace him with the money we got which we have done.
Fidelis Benati - Played most of his games off the bench for us and Chelsea offered him first team football. 15m for a back-up player is good business which we have replaced.
Total Received: 98M
23m profit made in Transfers.