The London Academy

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After a string of poor performances english business man Tim Kellow along with sponsorship from the FA started the london academy. After the league reform of 2012 which meant the top scottish teams were entered into the english football league it was decided that the London academy would be entered into league 2 and a young manager was hired to oversea the development of the club. Tim Kellow gave him his full support with his only clause that the club only uses English born players and staff. With this rule in place the london academy was able to secure the rights to play their games at Wembley Stadium. The manager appointed Andy crosby as his number two, as his close friend they managed to secure Luke Shaw and James Ward-Prowse on loan from southampton.

The Team
David Preece (Barnsley)
Josh Meekings (Inverness)
Lee Naylor (Cardiff)
Jack Payne (Gillingham)
Garry Thompson (Scunthorpe)
James Wallace (Everton)
Jose Baxter (Everton)
Gary Martin (FC Hjorring)
Matt Ritchie (Swindon)
Michael Kay (Tranmere)
James Husband (Doncaster)
Luke Ayling (Yeovil)
Jeffrey Monakana (arsenal)
Jamal Blackman (Chelsea)
Danny Webber ( Free Agent)
Lee Holmes (preston)

With the message from the chairman to achieve a respectable position in league 2. The focus was on the new man to take the english league by storm....
 
Preseason-Finding his feet

Transfers
Francomb (norwich) 140k
Yennaris (Arsenal) Loan
Wagstaff (Charlton) 3month Loan
Adjeman-Pamboe (Free)
Amenku (free)
Keane (Man utd) 375k
Robinson (Huddersfield) 230k
James(Hartlepool) 700k
Seabourne (Soton) Loan

London Academy 2-0 London Academy Reserves
Lee Holmes, Danny Webber

Abingdon Utd 1-3 London Academy
Baxter(2), Wagstaff

London Academy 1-0 Crawley
Martin

London Academy 1-2 Brighton
Webber (pen), Bridcutt Agdestein

London Academy 0-4 Leeds
Norris (2),Somma, Clifford

Summary

As London Academy has no youth or reserve team it was important to sign a number of players for depth.
Although there was a poor result against leeds in was mainly fringe players and still had a high amount of possession.

Key Man

Danny Webber

Seems to tick all the boxes scoring and assisting!
 
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