The Steel City Revival 2016 till Forever

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Wow a draw to arsenal a win against everton and a draw against Manchester united you should be pushing for a European competition at this stage
 



December


Miracle month of results
Chelsea & Man City fall at our feet, But not West ham
Most importantly based on these sides failures were now in the top 4
Board reward us with £40m spending money!


Fixtures

Sheff Wed 1-2 West Ham
Gourcuff


Sheff Wed 3-0 Ipswich
Dembele 2
Matias


Aston Villa 1-3 Sheff Wed
Johnson
Adriano
Bentancur


Sunderland 2-2 Sheff Wed
Johnson
Bannan


Sheff Wed 2-1 Chelsea
Zivkovic
Boateng


Sheff Wed 1-1 Tottenham
Goretzka


** Game of the month **
Man City 1-2 Sheff Wed
Zivkovic 2
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Was hard to split this from the Chelsea game or even the draw with Spurs when we were down to 10 men for 60 minutes but with the amount of injurys and bans we had on this day




Premiership
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What a result for Wednesday starting 2017 in the top 4. And for Spurs who top the table.




Player of the Month
Marco Matias
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Made a slow start to life in the top flight due to injurys but came up big in December mainly off the bench but still enough to win an award in our greatest month so far!


Winter Transfer Policy
With the money coming in i hope to reap the rewards of two years scouting the world and nosing into other people saves to sign a large squad of u21 & u18 players. Most of which turned me down in the summer but may be more interested now that were a contender!
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January


Lost 3-0 at home to Liverpool in our worst performance of the season
Stoke win as the only good performance this month
very busy window collecting youth players from around the world


Fixtures


FA Cup 3rd Round
Wycombe 0-3 Sheff Wed
Boateng
Salakory
Perez


**Game of the Month **
Sheff Wed 0-3 Liverpool
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Clearly this was not our best performance or result but i though i would push it to show just how close these Premier League games can be but the results go so one sided. This has gone in our favor so many times this year.


Sheff Wed 2-0 Stoke
Matias
Goretzka


Crystal Palace 2-1 Sheff Wed
Johnstone


FA Cup 4th Round
Man Utd 1-1 Sheff Wed
Adriano






Premiership
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Tottenham & Arsenal tie at the top while Man Utd close the gap. Everton & Swansea take advantage of our slup and Man Citys 3 defeats in a row.




Player of the Month
Jose Enrique
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30 years old and unemployed following a poor season at Liverpool with only 7 appearances he's joined the Owls and is having a second wind to his time in the Premiership


Transfer Window
Chelsea make £5m profit on both Baba Rahman & Hakim Ziyech using the profits to buy Andrew Robertson from Hull. Newcastle complete a £8m move for Bernard Mensah

Sheff Weds
10 players joing the club. 8 go into the youth team while we grab two bargains of the century off the Transfer List


Christian Benteke - £8m
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Saul - £8m
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Both players were transfer listed by big European sides and thanks to the boards investment we could easily afford the £8m each required for these two players. Didnt really need Saul but will move talent around to make space for them.


The other 8 join the youth team but will all see action for the 1st team except Situaru who rejoined his team on loan till the summer.
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February


Jamie Vardy goes past a goal a game as he helps beat us. End the month with 27 goals in 26 games
Man Utd end our cup dream
Two league wins against top 10 challengers Swansea & West Brom help us back into the top 4
Swansea win the League Cup final with two extra time goals from Andre Ayew to beat Liverpool.
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Fixtures


Sheff Wed 1-2 Leicester
Arango


Sheff Wed 2-1 West Brom
Benteke
Zivkovic


FA Cup 4th Rnd Replay
Sheff Wed 1-2 Man Utd
Adriano


** Game of the Month **
Swansea 0-1 Sheff Wed
Bentancur
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Swansea may have been preparing for the League cup final but by doing so gave us a chance to pull further away from them and the rest of the chasing pack




Premiership
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Only 5 points between 4th & 10th so all to play for in the next 12 games. Starting to look like Tottenham vs Arsenal for the title.




Player of the Month
Timo Horn
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A young keep who has had a solid but unspectacular first year in England



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March

Struggling QPR nab a point from us before wins against Newcastle & Everton strengthen our top 4 challenge.
Arsenal beat us hands down were not helped by Luiz Adriano's season ending injury. Thank god for Benteke


Fixtures

QPR 1-1 Sheff Wed
Bentancur


Sheff Wed 2-0 Newcastle
Goretzka
Benteke


** Game of the Month **
Sheff Wed 3-0 Everton
Dembele
Zivkovic
Adriano
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The result we needed by beating a challenger to the top 4 so convincingly. Lukaku missed a penalty at 2-0. It was just our day!


Arsenal 2-0 Sheff Wed






Premiership
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Huge game against Man Utd at the start of April. Top 4 spot is as close as ever with Man City, with a game in hand & Chelsea flying up behind us.




Player of the Month
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Group award March Young players of the month



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Love the story mate! Great job getting Wednesday in top 4! Hope you can hold that form fir the rest of the season!
 



April

Some great battle's going into the last 3 games
West Ham are the latest relegation threatened team to ruin our push for the Champions League spots.



Fixtures


Man Utd 0-0 Sheff Wed

West Ham 2-0 Sheff Wed


** Game of the Month **
Sheff Wed 3-0 Watford
Bannan 3
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Not a bad way to spend your 6th start of the season just as the youngsters were taking over


Ipswich 1-2 Sheff Wed
Romero 2


Sheff Wed 2-0 Aston villa
Dembele
Subotic




Premiership
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So its Tottenham vs Arsenal for the title nobody else is close. The battle for the other 2 Champions League spots is far more interesting. Man Utd should get one of those spot 4 points ahead of City and ourselves. All have tough schedules and all have to play either Arsenal or Spurs. We also have to play Chelsea who have no tough games but should be out of it 5 points behind.



Player of the Month
Rodrigo Bentancur
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Had to fight a few rivals to keep his position in the team but a solid April means he'll be starting the final stretch of games.



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May


Tottenham won there first title in over 50 years.
Man Utd beat us to the final Champions League spot by 1 point.
Ipswich were the only promoted team to be relegated along with Stoke & Crystal Palace


Fixtures


Chelsea 6-1 Sheff Wed
Bentancur


Sheff Wed 2-1 Sunderland
Bentancur
Zivkovic


Tottenham 1-1 Sheff Wed
Subotic




Premiership
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Tottenham secured the title with a game to spare so there focus was not really on our game perhaps. Sadly we couldnt hold onto our lead. If we had then we would have secured Champions League football but we'll be more than happy to take a spot in the Europa League with our young squad.



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Season 2016/17 Review



The aim was just to survive and we managed that by 31 points and in doing secured Europa League football for next season. Looked through most of February and March that we had a great shot at the Champions League positions but our form at the end of the season ended those dreams.
Shockers of the season were Chelsea. They did thrash us during the run in but finishing 2nd will keep them out of Europe next season after a poor start from Jose Laurent Blanc came in and never managed to turn it around. Defensive legends of the 90s Fernando Hierro & Frank De Boer combined to win only 4 games and relegate Crystal Palace. Liverpool's Roberto Mancini & relegated Ipswich, Mick McCarthy were also sacked.
Tottenham went on to complete the double beating Man Utd in the FA Cup
Further down the leagues Rotherham have a player manager. 44 year old Roberto Carlos


Sheff Weds 2016/17
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Adam Johnson & Luiz Adriano were superstars in the first half of the season while players from the championship Cubas & Bentancur carried on there good form. Benteke will have to play much better to keep his spot in the team


Premiership - 5th
FA Cup - 4th Round
League Cup - 4th Round





Key Players




Adam Johnson
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The former England international arrived on a free transfer and despite missing a few games with injury he scored & made several important goals.


Luiz Adriano
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Joined on loan from AC Milan and it was his goals that led to our early success. Sadly just i was giving Benteke more game time Luiz injured his cruciate ligaments ending his season and now at 30 years old will end any chance of me bringing him back to Sheffield.


Andres Cubas
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The young Argentine had a better season in the Premiership than the Championship. One of the first players on the team sheet all season.






Season Awards


League Player of the year
Dele Alli
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Young Player of the year
Raheem Sterling
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Top Scorer
Jamie Vardy
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Manager of the year
Mauricio Pochettino
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Sheffield Review




Sheffield United
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18th in the Championship. Another season consolidating a spot in that league would do nicley


Sheffield FC
No mention



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Season 2017/18 Preview






After last summers struggle we manage to keep most of our star players only loosing one starting player.
Almost all our transfer action was to build an amazing u18 team and we'll continue to buy lots of youth as long as we keep a solid spine to our first team
Great news on the world cup, Hope this happens in real life.
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Season 3 Targets
Premiership - Qualify for European football
FA & League Cups - Back up teams
Europa League - Knock out Phase


The club wants a cup run but full focus is on the League & Europe.






Starting team 2017
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Sticking with the counter tactics from last season. We sometimes dragged our wingers back in tougher games. Vallejo is the only change to the defense replacing Lovren who's loan deal ended. If we make lots of money Valejo may stay next season. Expect more rotation with our wingers now Zivkovic has left and we've got two amazing youngsters in Odengaard & Lozano joining. Benteke remains as our lone top drawer striker.






Summer signing
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Lozano who had his 22nd birthday 6 days ago is the only permanent signing that is not a teenager.




Martin Odegaard - £10.25m
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Hirving Lozano - Free
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Jesus Vallejo - Loan
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6 players so far sign up for the u18s
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Out
One major sale was Andrija Zivkovic. Was asking fr a huge pay rise and after slipping down the pecking order during last season the interest from Europe's tops sides was very welcome to the tune of £28m. Aside from Andrija Back up players from the past 2 years Ross Wallace & Sam Hutchinson



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August


Leaky defense without the goals at the other end highlighted by a couple of 3-0 defeats. Work still to be dont!
Fair, or good draw in the Europa League where we were 4th seeds.


Fixtures

Sheff Wed 0-3 Arsenal

Sunderland 0-2 Sheff Wed
Benteke
Goretzka


** Game of the Month **
Sheff Wed 2-2 Everton
Benteke
Friar
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Signs of our early defensive struggles as we twice threw away a lead


Aston Villa 3-0 Sheff Wed






Premiership
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Ourselves and Tottenham make slow starts after our amazing seasons last year. Arsenal, Everton & West Brom lead the way early on.




Player of the Month
Leon Goretzka
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The German never settled in a single position last season but was given the role in the middle of the team and despite our poor start he has played well




Europa League Draw
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No great teams but how long will it take this team to gel will be our biggest obstacles




Transfer Window
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Chelsea sell Oscar & Diego Costa to Man City in the biggest August transfers



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September


Except for the QPR game we win every league game as we start heading towards last seasons form.
Defeated by Sampdoria in Italy despite our best performance of the season.
The most youthful team i've put out beat Wigan in Extra Time

Fixtures


Southampton 1-2 Sheff Wed
Bentacur
Benteke


Europa League Match 1
Sheff Wed 4-0 Lokomotiv Moscow
Benteke
Saul
Bentancur 2


** Game of the Month **
Sheff Wed 2-1 Watford
Subotic
Johnson
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Last minute wondergoal from Adam Johnson saved the day for our tired team. The Europa curse is real!


Capital One Cup 3rd Round
Wigan 1-2 Sheff Wed AET
Lozano
Romero


Sheff Wed 0-3 QPR
We really have to learn how to play with 10 men


Europa League Match 2
Sampdoria 2-1 Sheff Wed
Bentacur
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3 points all round.


Chelsea 0-1 Sheff Wed
Bentacur




Premiership
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3 Wins has us back on track and in sight of the European spots. Few shocks with the teams in the top 10 still waiting for the league to settle into a pattern. At the bottom Fulham still looking for there first win.


Player of the Month
Rodrigo Bentancur
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4 goals in the month winging goals all over the place. Once again he fought off any challenge for his starting spot early on in the season.



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October

Tough matches against Man City and Spurs lead to 2 defeats in our 3 games. Were still in the top 10 thanks to a big win over struggling Newcastle
The Kids win again against West Ham in the League Cup
Still lots of work to do in the second half of the Europa League


Fixtures


Tottenham 3-2 Sheff Wed
Lozano
Perez


Europa Match 3
Trabzonspor 2-2 Sheff Wed
Matias
Bannan
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Sheff Wed 0-1 Man City


Capital One Cup 4th Round
West Ham 0-1 Sheff Wed
Perez
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I've no idea how our team of kids with Vallejo & Barry Bannan beat West Ham's starting team and keep the cup run going. Might be the last stand for the kids now were this deep in the competition.


Sheff Wed 3-0 Newcastle
Cubas
Bentancur 2




Premiership
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Unbeaten Man City with Arsenal & Everton begin to lead the way. Were now 6 points away from the Champions League places. Fulham finally won but are still bottom.


Player of the Month
Andres Cubas
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Recovered from a early season injury. to lead the teams recovery after a dodgy start.



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November


Were through to the last 32 in the Europa League but thats about all the highlights we have.
Win, Draw and Defeat in the league. Move up to 9th but further away than ever from the top 4
Watford defeat particularly bugged me as we played such a weak team in the Premiership to prepare for the cup. However if we did get through the other Semi Finalists were Arsenal, Man Utd & Chelsea


Fixtures


Europa Match 4
Sheff Wed 2-1 Trabzonspor
Matias
Romero


Liverpool 0-0 Sheff Wed




West Ham 1-2 Sheff Wed
Enrique
Benteke
Our only league win of the month
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Europa League Match 5
Lokomotiv Moscow 0-1 Sheff Wed
Bannan
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The late goal from our back up midfielder secures a spot in the last 32. Top spot also settled with our far better head to head record.


Sheff Wed 1-3 West brom
Matias


Capital One Cup Qtr Final
Sheff Wed 0-1 Watford
Rested players against West Brom for this only to loose to a 89th minute winner from Watfords Michel






Premiership
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Top 5 are looking like the class of the League at this stage. We play Leicester next in a must win if we are to challenge a top 4 spot this season. If we dont win then i think Europa is the best we can hope for.


Player of the Month
Marco Matis
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We had a very poor month from all our players so by default Matias's injury cover dutys were enough




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Solid stuff in the league, pushing for Europa again this season hopefully
 



December


Unbeaten run in the league except for a trip to Man Utd
Biggest win of the year at Arsenal


Fixtures


Sheff Wed 2-1 Leicester
Benteke 2


Europa League match 6
Sheff Wed 1-0 Sampdoria
Friar
The u19's did better than the 1st team!
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Derby 0-0 Sheff Wed


Sheff Wed 2-0 Fulham
Benteke
Lozano


Swansea 2-2 Sheff Wed
Goretzka
Romero


Man Utd 2-0 Sheff Wed


Arsenal 1-2 Sheff Wed
Benteke
Bentancur
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A massive win. We put ourselves behind with a O'G from Buelvas. This was our best perfromace i can remember us having as we kept fighting and with 13 minutes to go Benteke pulled us level. However there was more. My best midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur scored the last minute winner.


Sheff Wed 3-0 Sunderland
Lozano
O'G
Bentancur






Premiership
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Our improved form has us into 8th 6 points clear of Chelsea in 10th. 6 points in the other direction is 5th place Everton with Jamie Vardys Leicester 2 points ahead of them in 4th.




Player of the Month
Hirving Lozano
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The Mexican winger is slowly edging Adam Johnson out of the team and his performances have made him my starting left winger.



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