__________________________________________________________________
View attachment 295355
we had 5 pre-season fixtures, we managed to win 3, draw 1 and loss 1.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Our first game was against Carolina Railhawks:
View attachment 295359 we managed to win 3-1, with goals from lopes, keane and our new signing, bell. we had more possession and took our chances on goal, securing a 2-0 lead at half time. Robbie Keane got injured in this game with a torn calf muscle and is out for 2-4 months, a big, big loss for our team...
__________________________________________________________________
in our next game we faced Minnesota Stars:
View attachment 295360 but even without Robbie, we managed a 3-1 win, goals this time came from Landon Donovan, who got two! and David Beckham. Sadly in this game our centre-back A.J DeLaGarza got a slight injury but was okay afterwards.
__________________________________________________________________we then came up against a fairly decent Rochester Rhinos team:
View attachment 295361 we got by with the skin of our teeth in this game, only managing a 2-1 win, with goals from James McFadden and Fergus Bell. we managed to get a 1-0 lead at half time, we got the only two yellow cards of the match, they went to Juninho and A.J DeLaGarza.
__________________________________________________________________
our training camp was finished and we now faced Sparta Prague:
View attachment 295362 i was a mix of emotion after this game, annoyed we didn't win but i was pleased we didn't lose, no goals in this game, it was quite boring to watch to be honest, there was only 3 highlights in the whole game and again we got the only booking of the game which went to David Junior Lopes.
__________________________________________________________________
for our last game of Pre-season we played Viktoria Plzen:
View attachment 295363 i was disappointed after this game, they took the early lead on 25 minutes, then doubled it on 33 minutes, we had plenty of time to get back into it, but we never took our chances we had way more shots than them and more possession so i don't know how we couldn't get anything from the game?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
so here's the final pre-season injury table:
View attachment 295365 still a while before we get Robbie Keane and Omar Gonzalez back.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
here is the summary of all our transfers:
View attachment 295366 we managed to bring in 5 players, and only sent out one on loan. i brought in a few Scottish players to develop them for my international squad's campaign to the FIFA World Cup 2014.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
we managed to sell all of our season tickets:
View attachment 295369 all 7,500 of them.
_______________________________________________________________________________________ i haven't even had an international game yet, but we have jumped about the FIFA World Rankings:
View attachment 295371 first of all we moved up 2 places...
View attachment 295372 then we dropped 1 place...
View attachment 295373 and after that we dropped 4 places!
_______________________________________________________________________________________so this is my full squad for next season:
View attachment 295374
View attachment 295375
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thanks for watching guys! hope you enjoy, be sure to leave a like & comment with suggestions and what you think of the story so far! next update is the Start of the MLS season against Real Salt Lake!