**Planet Stevenage**
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It was a fantastic debut season for manager Stephen Gold, he did the unthinkable for the club in bringing home The Double, winning the conference with ease and then taking the FA Trophy in style while also enjoying a very good FA Cup run.
Gold was of course extremely thrilled with the success in such a short time and said "It was a wonderful effort by the whole team throughout the whole season but there were some special performers by some players which were Matthews, Humphreyes and Juliusson, without them we certainly wouldnt have done as good as we did"
Well they did celebrate their success into season break but not for long, Gold was ready to get back down to business and started looking for some new prospects to help out the squad in their assaut for third division football.
The board have given only a very small amount of transfer fee's in 16k, ideally it could be more but the financial future has to be secure, wages are also very restricted, at best, £210 a week is the best we can give.
The search was long, from Scotland to Africa to America, Asia and South America, some potential players were found but the wage restriction stopped a lot of very talented players coming to us.
So we had to do with what we got, with the money we had, we spent it all on a young, rising star from Iceland, Porarisson (sp) comes in, an 18yr old striker with massive potential, he will boost our current strike force and is one for the future.
Along with him we just made some free transfers, we required a keeper so we got a young 17yr old who had just left Man Utd Cronckett, again with a lot of potential, there was more to come from United as we also signed right back Lee Sims and pacey striker David Poole, both come highly recommend. We also signed Briscoe from Sheff Wed for defensive cover.
We made a couple more free transfers but they are more fill in players incase we start getting an injury crisis.
The aims for the season ahead will be to avoid relegation just as the Board have indicated, my personal aim will be mid-table.
We'll also be aiming for good cup runs in all the cups we're involved in, Vans, League Cup and FA Cup, this should help out financial situation quite a lot, especially if we progress far in the FA Cup.
I wish everyone all the best for the new season ahead and that everyone again has a lot of success, bring on season 2
. My team were still looking a little light defensively so some back up cover was the next priority, Stephen Caldwell , a loan signing in our promotion winning season, is available on a free and is quickly snapped up. My final loan signing was the under-rated young defender Petri Pasanen from Ajax.
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