The Story Of Sam Birch - A Legend In The Making

[clarky1683]

Awesome signings!!

 

[Sam91]

September

Cavani finds his shooting boots
Niang out for 3 months, step up Bertoli
Going strong in the league
Ibrahimovic still yet to score
Penalties again needed, this time against Chelsea in the COC




League


Blackburn 0 - 5 Southampton

Cavani(2), Lallana, Fierro(2)




Southampton 2 - 1 Stoke

Lallana, Fierro




Southampton 2 - 0 Aston Villa

Bertoli(2)




Capital One Cup


Chelsea 1 - 1 Southampton
Saints win 4-3 on pens

De Bruyne

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Champions League


Southampton 5 - 2 Shaktar

Oscar, Fierro, Cavani(2), Caulker

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Monthly Review


Awesome month really, Cavani started smashing them in. Fierro keeps scoring and when he doesn't he assists. Only thing overshadowing this month would be Niang's injury but Bertoli proved a worthy deputy smashing in a brace against Villa. In the next round of the COC we have Pompey!! Our fiercest rivals who are still in League 1.



Player of the Month

Edinson Cavani

Smashing them in this month after I switched his role to Complete Forward and striking up a god partnership with Fierro. He's already favoured personal with him!!

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Tables

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Belgium

Friendly

Belgium 3 - 2 Scotland

Lukaku, Alderweireld, Hazard



Euro 2016 Qualifier

Belgium 4 - 0 Iceland

Lukaku(3), Mirallas



Table

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[Greggylad]

Great stuff

 

[Sam91]

Great stuff

Cheers mate, new update later today. Including Belgium vs Sweden

 

[Sam91]

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Woahh...

 

[*Jamess*]

Don't do it!!!

 

[likeabaws]

yeah man reject it! btw jst caught up with all of this and its great

 

[Sam91]

October

Mixed month of results
Ibra still to score *sighs*
Fierro bags another hat-trick
5 goal thriller at Sports Direct Arena


League


West Ham 1 - 2 Southampton

Fierro, Cavani




Southampton 1 - 1 Tottenham

Gomes OG




Newcastle 2 - 3 Southampton

Fierro(3)

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Southampton 1 - 1 Everton

Lallana



Capital One Cup


Southampton 2 - 1 Portsmouth
AET

Cahill, Chortsas

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Champions League


Kalmar FF 0 - 2 Southampton

Bertoli, Gustafasson OG




Southampton 1 - 3 Real Madrid

Fierro

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Monthly Review


Well a mixed month by our high standards. Disappointing games against Spurs, Everton and Pompey. We gave Madrid a real match but lady luck shone on them. The worst thing though is Shakhtar BEAT Madrid to blow our group wide open. Fierro's form seems to be flying again, love that kid so much haha!!

In other news Buffon bought Cesena and I turned down the Bayern job obviously

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Player of the Month

Adam Lallana

Mr Consistant's been on top form again


Table's

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Belgium
Euro 2016 Qualifiers

Andorra 0 - 3 Belgium

Lukaku, Mirallas, Nainggolan



Belgium 3 - 3 Sweden

Dembele, De Bruyne, Defour

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Annoyed to throw away a 2 goal lead like that I'm really not enjoying managing Belgium to be honest, probably leave after the Euro's if we make it. Here's what the group looks like

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[Sam91]

November

Patchy league form again
Devestating loss against Real Madrid
Shakhtar get a spanking again though
Brilliant comeback with Belgium against Tunisia



League


Manchester United 0 - 1 Southampton

Ocampos

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Southampton 1 - 2 Chelsea

Fierro



Bolton 1 - 6 Southampton

Fierro(3), Oscar, Lallana, Ocampos

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Southampton 3 - 3 Wolves

Ocampos, Ibrahimovic, Cavani




Southampton 1 - 1 Norwich

Fierro




Champions League


Real Madrid 4 - 3 Southampton

Fierro, Clyne, Ibrahimovic

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Shakhtar 0 - 3 Southampton

Bertoli, Cavani(2)




Monthly Review


So a poor month in the league once more, the win against United was good as they're right up there but they were down to 10 men after 2 minutes. The lose to Chelsea was hard to take as we were the better side and deserved at least a draw. Drawing with Norwich and Wolves is just not acceptable these days either. The Bolton result was top class and shows just how good this squad is when they perform. Champions League is going well after that win over Shakhtar, the Madrid result was another hard one to take this month but never mind.

In other news Niang returned from his injury, but bad news about him..

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Probably offload him which is a shame but Fierro has hit top form for about a year now and with Cavani, Ibra and Bertoli he wont be massively missed. Plus the young German Tunay Apaydin I signed this summer is having an incredible season with Livingston

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Player of the Month

Lucas Ocampos

Another impressive month from the Argentine


Tables

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Belgium

Friendlies

Belgium 0 - 0 Greece



Tunisia 3 - 5 Belgium

Jemal OG, Lukaku(2), Naiggolan, Bruno

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[Sam91]

December

Messi wins Ballon D'Or and Damiao wins World POTY
Through to COC Semi's
Interesting turn of events in Champions League group
League Form returns



League


QPR 0 - 5 Southampton

Fierro(2), Ocampos, Cavani(2)

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Southampton 2 - 0 Arsenal

Ocampos, Cavani




Sunderland 0 - 2 Southampton

Fierro(2)




Southampton 3 - 2 Liverpool

Ibrahimovic, Ocampos, Niang

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Southampton 1 - 1 Manchester City

Cavani

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Capital One Cup


Southampton 2 - 0 Aston Villa

Ibrahimovic, Frimpong




Champions League


Southampton 4 - 0 Kalmar FF

Ibrahimovic, De Bruyne, Haggqvist OG, Cavani




Monthlly Review


Solid month. Came so close to beating City too, but the results this month just shows we really can mix it with them big boys these days. Now onto the Champions League.... whilst I did what I needed to do in beating Kalmar it ensured we did progress, BUT Shakhtar once again beat Madrid which meant we topped the group!!! So Madrid finised second and us first. We drew Benfica so I'm confident we can progress

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Player of the Month

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Maybe not the BEST player this month, but finally settled down and hitting the net



Table

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So at Christmas we're right up there challenging for the title I'm happy



Please Comment or drop a like

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[likeabaws]

Awesome as always Sam, thanks for liking my latest update, tip on Ibra. It says he operates best as a target man I think. I had a save with AC Milan a while back and he was playing **** at TM but once I changed him to deep lying forward he scored 20 odd goals after that, so try that for a couple of games. Also what do you think of my latest update? Any good?

 

[Sam91]

Awesome as always Sam, thanks for liking my latest update, tip on Ibra. It says he operates best as a target man I think. I had a save with AC Milan a while back and he was playing **** at TM but once I changed him to deep lying forward he scored 20 odd goals after that, so try that for a couple of games. Also what do you think of my latest update? Any good?

Yeah I haven't been playing him as a TM, been playing him as a CF and he was doing okay. Switched it to AF and he's improved, my Assistant Report says he's best as a DLF but he didn't play too well at the start of the season in that role but might give it a go again. He's probably off at the end of the season anyway, his performances aren't matching his insane wages.

Latest update was immense, Im loving that story pal KIU

 

[Sam91]

January

Pull off two big deals for two Germans
Crash out of Capital One Cup
Few players shown the door including Niang and Caulker
Strong month in the league and FA Cup


Transfers

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Ins

So we snapped up Khedira for £12.5m, he's quality and will be a good mentor for Jack Beckham. Marc Andre Ter Stegan was signed for a tiny fee due to his contract status, I was chuffed to grab him so cheap. Two regens were also grabbed, Zieglar a young keeper who will be sold for profit and young left back Cosenza who will be back up to Luke Shaw.

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Outs

A bit more busy than the ins. Taiwo left as he was about as good as Luke Shaw these days and I made a nice profit on him, I signed him for £2.2m. Caulker was the next out, he was on 120k a week which is ridiculous so off he went for £15m, another nice bit of profit. Niang was then off to QPR for another profit, I have so many quality strikers I really didn't need him plus his injury earlier this season reduced his PA. Frimpong was then loaned out as I now have Khedira.



League


Swansea 0 - 1 Southampton

Fierro



Fulham 2 - 5 Southampton

Cavani(3), Bertoli(2)

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Southampton 2 - 0 Blackburn

Ibrahimovic, Bertoli




Stoke 1 - 3 Southampton

Cavani(2), Lallana




Capital One Cup


Liverpool 0 - 0 Southampton




Southampton 1 - 2 Liverpool

Bertoli




FA Cup

3rd Round

Southampton 2 - 2 Leicester

Zouma, Cavani


3rd Round Replay

Leicester 3 - 4 Southampton

Ibrahimovic(2), Ocampos, Cahill

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4th Round

Southampton 2 - 1 Swansea

Fierro, Cavani



Monthly Review


Pretty solid month again. Happy with me dealings during the window, Caulker wouldn't have been sold but he was on crazy wages and was refusing to sign a cheaper contract it gives Zouma a chance to step up. Disappointed to lose to Liverpool in the COC but never mind, really pleased with my league form we're really looking like genuine title contenders.



Player of the Month

Edinson Cavani

Smashing the goals in this month




Table

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As you can see we really are up there with United, just a point behind. Its going to go to the wire..
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[clarky1683]

Sad to see Niang go... but a good profit and at least Cavani is scoring!

 

[Greggylad]

Wow nice signing but yeah sad about caulker man :/

 

[Sam91]

Sad to see Niang go... but a good profit and at least Cavani is scoring!

Yeah bit unfortunate but with Fierro, Cavani and Bertoli I just couldn't see much of a future for him, he's hitting them in for QPR and I'm strangely happy about that as I did develop him. Glad that Cavani has settled too

 

[Sam91]

Wow nice signing but yeah sad about caulker man :/

He'd insisted on a Highest Earner Clause when he signed for us what 3 seasons ago now?? And with Cavani arriving in the summer his wages increased and I just felt he wasn't worth those massive wages as I have Cahill and Coates on around 80k and Zouma is about as good as Caulker anyway.

 

[lilrocker90]

been following your thread for a few days now... its been amazing to follow... as a united supporter im happy to see us on top, but i secretly hope you top the table at season end

 

[Sam91]

been following your thread for a few days now... its been amazing to follow... as a united supporter im happy to see us on top, but i secretly hope you top the table at season end

Thanks mate, glad you are enjoying the story, it's gonna be close that's for sure!!

 

[Sam91]

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Lol Pep's just been sacked from his third side!!!! I hate him so much