retired_dfj003

The team arrived back in England and I immediately sent my two scouts off around the world to have a look at some young talent that has come to my attention. They should be back shortly and I will be interested to hear what they’ve got to say. I finished reviewing the training schedule and have created a whole new one, the aim is to maximise players effectiveness, help them fill their potential and also avoid injuries. Now that I have revamped the training schedule I will be reviewing its effects on players in coming weeks, a few more players will hopefully be present in training in that period, a few deals in the transfer market look to be close to completion, the squad is still in need of a player or two.

eren3

great story so far Tom, i hope to be reading more in the near future :thup:KUTGW

retired_anjones003

Sounding good to me
Good story man

retired_dfj003

If someone could tell me how to use Code Tags properly it would be much appreciated.

I did a search but couldn't find anything on it for formations and scorelines, so I still don't know how to write my team selection, thanks

retired_dfj003

I met with the board to discuss a few things today, I requested that we look into acquiring a feeder club. I may well be signing a few players who are unlikely to obtain work permits in the near future and so I told the board that a club from somewhere like Belgium would be ideal so I can send non EU players there, but that any other clubs would be considered as well. A young Chilean called Nicolas Milan has caught my eye and I will be making enquiries in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile I have entered negotiations with Man City over Micah Richards and have tabled a £12,000,000 offer with a 10% sell on clause.

retired_Kemp

Write your formation in Notepad and arrange the layout there. When happy with the layout, copy it in between a CODE starttag and a CODE endtag.

retired_dfj003

:thup:

Cheers Dr Who

retired_dfj003

I was busier than usual in the transfer market today, to my delight, both Gyan Asamoah and Vincent Enyeama have been granted work permits and I have confirmed deals for both players. Man City have also accepted my offer for Micah Richards and I have offered a contract.

Giorgio Cheillini is still proving quite difficult though, Juventus have rejected my latest bid and I have upped my offer to £3,900,000. I am hoping to avoid spending over £4,500,000 on him and I don’t want a sell on clause.

My first Premiership game with Arsenal is coming up shortly and for the next few days I will be turning my attention to that and putting transfer dealings on hold.

retired_dfj003

Team against Reading

For the season opener away at Reading I fielded a much stronger team than the one that had faced Zurich. Gilberto, Hleb and Lehmann all returned to the starting line up after injury while Tomas Rosicky and new loan signing Gyan Asamoah were both named on the bench.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> Lehmann Eboue Toure Gallas Guardado Hleb Gilberto Fabregas Van Persie Baptista Henry </pre>

Subs :
Adebayor
Cardenas
Rosicky
Asamoah
Djourou



English Premiership 19/8/2006
Madejski Staduim, Reading

Reading V Arsenal


The low moral in the dressing room before the game contributed to a slow start, as Reading seemed content to sit ands wait for us to attack while putting men behind the ball. We took a while to settle into the game but when we found our feet the game started to turn in our favour. A bit of good fortune early on helped us, Julio Baptista was lucky to remain on the pitch when he elbowed Glen Little in the face four minutes in, he was only given yellow and the game had an ugly feel to it from thereon in. As the team started to come forward and threaten the Reading goal mistimed tackles and stupid fouls led Uriah Rennie to give out the yellow card to Andres Guardado, Kolo Toure, Steve Sidwell, Booby Convey and Ivar Ingimarsson. Reading put up strong defensive resistance throughout the first half but when they had numbers up field in a rare attack Andres Guardado picked up possesion and played a long ball to Julio Baptista who controlled it and played in Thierry Henry for a superb finish one on one with Marcus Hahnemann. One nil down and things got worse for Reading moments later when their new signing Tomas Radzinski was stretchered off after getting injured in a challenge with Gilberto.

The second half proved even better than the first for us as the team built on what they had got in the first 45 minutes. Reading’s resistance had been severed and we pushed forward more in hope of a second goal. Thirty minutes passed without a goal however as Marcus Hanemann pulled off a few good saves to keep the game alive. Reading’s hopes came to and end in the 75th minute however when Ingimarsson was shown a straight red for kicking Thierry Henry after the Frenchman earned a free kick. I put on Adebayor and Rosicky for the cautioned Baptista and the tiring Gilberto and the fresh legs paid off four minutes from the end as Rosicky played a pinpoint ball through to the Togo striker, who was marginally onside, to tuck away and seal the win. Our dominance did not mean in any way that the defence had been redundant however. My tactics meant that we wanted Reading to attack as often as possible and that the defence would start a lot of our attacking moves. So it was actually William Gallas who scooped man of the match and of the back four, only Eboue turned in and average performance. After the match the players moral had shot up, which was very pleasing, and I congratulated the players. The pressure was really on for me to prove myself and to make a good start and this win was very welcome.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> Reading 0 - 2 Arsenal Radzinski Inj. 44 Henry 43 Ingimarsson s/o 75 Adebayor 86 Man of the Match : William Gallas (Arsenal) </pre>

retired_dfj003

That's better, I just made a mistake with the Readin - Arsenal bit, but I have a better way of posting scorelines, now they will be like this :


Reading 0
Radzinski Inj. 44
Ingimarsson s/o 75

Arsenal 2
Henry 43
Adebayor 86


Man of the Match : William Gallas (Arsenal)