The Story Of Sam Birch - A Legend In The Making

Who Should I Manage?

  • Chelsea

    Votes: 7 21.9%

  • Southampton

    Votes: 16 50.0%

  • West Ham

    Votes: 7 21.9%

  • Athletic Bilbao

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • Total voters
    32
  • Poll closed .
March

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Good player from the Youth Academy
Mixed League results
Youngster makes debut against Newcastle
Dudziak signed from Dortmund


New Star through Youth Academy

Colin Hoad

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Not too bad, probably spells the end for Tom Huddlestone who's been awful this year.


New signing

Jeremy Dudziak

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Just look how versatile this lad is!! Only 16 too. He hadn't signed a pro contract with Dortmund yet so I snapped him up for £1.1M compensation. Not a bad bit of business



League Results


West Brom 1 - 3 Southampton

Wilson, Rodriguez, Foster OG



Chelsea 2 - 1 Southampton

Niang



Southampton 2 - 1 Newcastle

Niang, Cork




Man United 4 - 1 Southampton

Tshabalala




Monthly Review


Certainly not the worst month ever. Don't expect to beat United or Chelsea but we certainly could have performed better in those matches. We were plain AWFUL against United. Good wins against West Brom and Newcastle though.

Colin Hoad broke Luke Shaw's record of youngest player when he made his debut against Newcastle.

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Player of the Month

Danny Wilson

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Top performances this month, we would have been much worse off without him that's for sure. Formed a solid CB partnership with Caulker, will be looking to sign him in the summer.


League Table

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So Spurs are still top, never thought I'd like the sight of that but means European football for us next season if they can hold onto a top 4 place. If they don't then this game must hate me soooo much

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April

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(I was like this ALOT this month)


Worst month of my whole time playing FM
Not a single win
Jack Butland was out the whole month thanks to some **** who I never play injuring him in training!!
Marc Albrighton kicks up a fuss and will leave this summer
Another new signing the only positive this month



League Results


Reading 1 - 1 Southampton

Niang



Southampton 3 - 4 Arsenal

Lallana(2) Niang

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Swansea 0 - 0 Southampton




Southampton 0 - 0 Stoke






Aston Villa 2 - 1 Southampton

Rodriguez





Monthly Review


Awful month. Not a single win, I see all those matches as winnable. Even the Arsenal game as they went down to 10 men!! I called a team meeting halfway through the month and EVERY SINGLE PLAYER responded positively. Even Albrighton who now hates me as he's not getting game time. So yeah, really **** month.

Butland got injured at the start and only returned just after the Villa game! And about the Villa game look at these screenies!!

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Argh says something when you openly criticise the ref after a game and the FA do nothing about it. Normally they're on that **** quicker than a fat kid on a cupcake!!!


New Signing


So onto our new signing to brighten the update up. I snapped him up before he singed a pro contract. He's actually being chased in real life by Chelsea I've heard.

Say hello to our new wing wizard.. Lucas Ocampos!!

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He's got nearly everything you could want from a winger, except crossing. We'll work on that. But he's got pace, skill, dribbling, flair. A lot of what we've been missing this year, and he's only 17!!



Player of the Month

Adam Lallana

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Been my best player this year, so consistent.



League table

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You lost to Newcastle I see so I continued to follow but then you beat them so follow I will no more lol - after all its not as if you follow my stories!:p

Seriuosly though, you are doing well, you hoping to push for a European spot next season?
 
May and End Of Season Awards

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Strong end to the season
Spurs win the league
I come 3rd in Manager of the Year



League Results



Southampton 2 - 1 Everton

Drenthe, Niang




Southampton 2 - 1 Liverpool

Tshabalala, Lallana

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Fulham 1 - 2 Southampton

Tshabalala, Sharp

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Final Table

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Season Review


So a very solid season I'd say. There were some great games, there were some awful games(EVERTON)!! But all in all a good season as we were predicted 19th!! So many players under performed for me though, Huddletone, Jay Rod, Jack Cork to name some.

There will be a lot of changes this summer with a lot of players off. Already we have signed a few to come in as you've soon and there will be even more I imagine. We didn't get European football, I can only imagine that it doesn't matter that Spurs got Champions League football, you have to win the League Cup to get it. Never mind.




Player Awards

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PFA Player of the Year

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PFA Players Player of the Year

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Top Goalscorer

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PFA Young Player of the Year

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Manager of the Year

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Golden Glove

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So the only award we were involved in is Manager of the Year which I came third in. Never mind, was hoping Niang might have been involved in PFA Young Player.



Southampton Player Ratings


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Not many breaking the 7.00 mark. Niang the pick of the strikers, maybe I should have given Steve Davies a chance instead of Jack Cork but I always favour the youngsters.







My Player Awards



Player of the Season

Adam Lallana

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Easily could have gone to Tshabalala but Lallana just pipped it for me.


Young Player of the Season

M'Baye Niang

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Brilliant first season for the young lad, be leading the line for many years



Signing of the Season

Siphiwe Tshabalala

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Signed for £325k now worth over £4M. I'll have 1 more season out of him than sell him, not that he's not good enough but to allow my younger players coming in to develop live Callum Chambers and Lucas Ocampos.




That's It!!!!!! Would love to hear your guys opinions on everything, and thank you for reading :)


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Great start mate, maybe a couple of quality signings and you'll challenge for Europe?
 
NathWalker said:
Great start mate, maybe a couple of quality signings and you'll challenge for Europe?
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Yeah lining up some now :) should get a decent amount of money and snap up some decent free transfers too

Thanks for following
 
Had a massive squad overhaul, even more than I thought so will do a complete seperate update for transfers then do a pre season and August update after. Nearly spent over £50M and sold £40M worth of players
 
Good finish to the season and look forward to seeing your start to the new season.
 
A brilliant 1st season. 17 wins and a top half finish i'd say was the maximum you could expect from season 1.

Spurs won the leauge :O
 
stonecold said:
A brilliant 1st season. 17 wins and a top half finish i'd say was the maximum you could expect from season 1.

Spurs won the leauge :O
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Yeah, a lot of players underperformed though. (Huddlestone, Jay Rod, Jack Cork to name a few) so we could have done better.

I know they walked it!! Spent big though getting in Damiao and Srna. Plus Emmanuel Adebyor smashed it the goals
 
Any news on the transfers yet bud? Looking forward to seeing where this big money was spent ;D
 
NathWalker said:
Any news on the transfers yet bud? Looking forward to seeing where this big money was spent ;D
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I'll update tomorrow. Off to work now. Sorry just been really busy with my Saturday League football team, training Tuesday and a match Yesterday
 
Great stuff managing the Mighty saints (life long fan so a bit biast ;) ) Ocampos is a beast keep up the great work !!

Ps. The skin is StekloX2 :D
 
Sorry lads defo an update tomorrow, been really busy with work and a mates 21st.

Skin I use is Steklo X2 which Greggylad said, if people want I can post the link
 
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