retired_ritabiz

Yep, season 2 is nearing its conclusion and damn I can't wait to be in the EPL. Yes, that's right, Ipswich are making a comeback and they're gonna stay there for a long time!

And thanks for congratulating Rab, congrats to you too for probably staying in the EPL, will be fun to beat you next year.

retired_ritabiz

Well, I'll give my full report on last season and also my thoughts about the future season after our tomorrow's sessions when I know better what kind of players I might be able to buy etc. So until then, I'll just say hooray! I'm in the EPL !!!

retired_ritabiz

Rab, it is not computer cheating, as I also loaned Milan Baros from Liverpool. The rules have changed, just face it.

retired_ritabiz

Okay grandpa, take a look at this:

http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...656#9261991656

retired_ritabiz

Well, I didn't have all day, you know. Plus that should convinve you enough. And I'm looking forward to starting my adventure in the EPL...

retired_niko

alright, haven't been posting here for a while, it was a bitterly disappointing playoff final against blackburn. we were down 4-0 after the first half . we once again froze on the occasion, mind you we weren't looking good in the semi's against leicester either after losing the first match home. nobody but me, the players and the lion fans remembered that we lost to leicester last year also in the semi's. so in the second leg we didn't want history to repeat itself and stormed our way through to the final with a solid and marvellous performance. don't remeber the result though :/

well we have made some purchases during the summer. we bought Sebastien Abreau from Ipswich for €1.8M wich was a bargain considering his value was €8M, guess Ipswich was short on cash. then we really needed two more players for each flank, so i got Morten Gamst Pedersen from Tromsö for €3.5M and John Eustace from Coventry for €1.5M.

Oh yeah! Had a nice surprise when we got a new board just before the playoffs and we ´got €11M in the budget and €9M for transfers out of it . so i am using that cash wisely and i think we are gonna be strong this year. Have had some Chelski feelings because some humans has offered me ridicilous players in the hope i would have an IQ of 50 and bought them.

The team has started to play more of a unit now wich really has showed in the opening league matches. here's the pre-season and season fixtures we have played.

pre-season:
A Sunderland 0-1
A Fulham 0-1
A Heerenveen 1-0
A Chievo 3-0

1st Division:
H Grimsby 4-1
A Stoke 2-0
H Gillingham 3-0

We have started really well, leading the table at this point and the lads has really found each other on the pitch and scored after some really nefty moves.

Mark Kerr has been promoted to captain even though he has really low influense, the point being he has tremendous bravery, determination, teamwork and work rate, AND that nobody else in the starting eleven has a really good influense. well has worked so far and hes stats has rised really well during the last season. Class player.

Looking forward to monday for our next session. Maybe this will be our year?

The Lions Manager

retired_niko

im talking in euros you stupid twat.
look ---->€<-------EURO

retired_ritabiz

Well, season 3 has started for us and the mighty Ipswich are in the EPL and are going to aim for trophies! Though maybe not this season...

First a few words from last season. Things went great all season long and there wasn't any doubt for me that I wouldn't be going up to the EPL. I had the best squad in the league and some international players like my goalie Isaksson, right back Korneliusson and centre back Radoi. Plus a host of U21 players. I finished the season in the second place after Charlton huge 97 points, in the first season I got 73 points, so a nice 24 point improvement and a 40 goal better better goal difference. My best players were Jolean Lescott (Again, thank you Moncs for the future England centre back ), Isaksson and my striking duo of Sebastian Abreu and Alvaro. They socred about 60 goals together with Alvaro getting about 35 and Abreu getting almost 25 assists and being my best assist man and also the best in the league. Alvaro lost the scoring chart narrowly to Zamora but that didn't matter that much.

As I only got 1.8M pounds for transfers at the start of new season I had to sell a few players in order to be able to make the signings I wanted and I sold Abreu to Millwall for a cut-price of 1.2M pounds and Radoi to Tottenham for a nice hefty sum of 4M pounds and the promising young Dutch striker Sandro Calabro to NAC Breda for 2.3M pounds.

So, the summer came and I knew I had to get a few reinforcements, especially to the wings as last season my starting wingers were both on loan, Etherington and Ambrose. I solved the problem by signing former Lazio-hero Sergio Conceicao from Inter for free and loaning Boukhari from Ajax. My central midfield situation was pretty good but nonetheless I signed Aliou Cisse from the relegated Birmingham for 1.8M pounds to take over from the ageing Paul Ince as the fighter in the heart of my midfield and also Curtis Woodhouse from the same club for 900 thousand pounds to add cover in case of injuries and bans.

As I had sold Radoi, I had to get a new centre back to partner Lescott in the heart of the defence and I knew just the right guy to do the job superbly: Darren Purse of Birmingham. I had been hoping for a long time for Birmingham to ger relegated from the EPL, so I could buy their players and I got my wish and I was able to buy Purse for 2.5M pounds. An excellent buy and he would also become my new captain as I let Ince move to Stoke for 100 thousand. After the purchase of Purse I genuinely believe I have one of the best defensive partnerships in the league with Lescott and Purse. I also loaned my reserve right back to Wolves for the entire season, so I needed some cover to Korneliusson and I got Ruben from Real Madrid for free.

On to my attack, as I sold Abreu to Milwall and Calabro to NAC, I needed a few more strikers and also in the EPL a bit more quality. So I was able to loan Milan Baros from Liverpool and Javier Portillo from Real Madrid. Both excellent strikers and along with Alvaro I have a very good attack, also.

So those were my new signings and players sold out and I still have quite much money to make new purchases if I find a good buy. I also got to play my first game in the EPL and started it with an 1-0 away victory. Baros scored the goal from a good pass by Conceicao.

This will be my lineup very probably:

------------Baros-Portillo-------------

Boukhari - Cisse - Farnerud - Conceicao

McEveley - Lescott - Purse(C) - Korneliusson

----------------Isaksson----------------


Looking forward for tomorrow, I think I'm heading for a top half finish!

retired_niko

Can't complain too much. The season has started really well and an automatic promotion is the goal for this season. The board and fans are over the moon at the moment and the squad has a superb morale.

Only problems are my high wage budget and Ivan Bosnjak whose contract renewal is looking grim. Looks like he's going after the season and OJ looks to have some interest in the situation.

fixtures:

league:

A Colchester 2-0
H Rotherham 3-0
A Birmingham 2-1
H Cardiff 2-2
A Chesterfield 0-1
A Crewe 3-0
H Brighton 3-0
A Hull 1-2
H Wolves 1-0
A Q.P.R 2-1

League Cup 1st round

A Q.P.R 0-0
went out after penalties and Nicky Culkin being the hero for Q.P.R.

So we are 1st in the league at the moment with our record being after 13 matches 10 wins 1 draw and 2 lost. Goal difference 28 goals scored and 8 against and we have 31 points, 3 points ahead of Crystal Palace. Hope things will continue like they have. Looking forward to Monday

The Lions Manager

retired_ritabiz

WOW! Oh boy what a session we just had. Firstly, we had some techical difficulties after Moncs, our host, got some new hardware and he had some starting difficulties. Then, as I was making the buy of the century for my Ipswich team, I realised I didn't quite have the necessary money to do it, so I go and ask the board for some more, as I have in total sold players for 11.25M pounds and only bought for 5.25M pounds and I have plenty in the bank. But they didn't give it to me, so after thinking for a min I make an ultimatum to the board, as I have an excellent track record and the fans love me and also the board is delighted at me.

What happens? They sack me. A bit unfair as although I did make the ultimatum, I should have deserved the money and the guy I'm was going to buy is bloody fantastic. Well, as our rules state, I re-instated myself as the Ipswich manager by the name of OJ Simpson the Second...

Anyways, on to the football field. My team is playing fairly good and I'm currently at 10th place and things are looking good, as I got a comfortable margin to the relegation zone and I know my team has enough quality to stay in the Premiership.

These have been the results:

A Aston Villa 1-3
H West Ham 2-1
A Tottenham 1-2
H Chelsea 0-1
A Man City 1-1
H Sunderland 3-0
H Portsmouth 2-2
H Southampton 0-3
A Charlton 1-0
A Leeds 1-3
H W.B.A. 1-1

Also I've won Liverpool at home 3-0 and a few other games earlier the season were played I can't remember. But like everybody can see, if I can improve my away form, I will be doing very good this season and maybe a top half finish isn't out of the question...


OJ Simpson the Second, Ipswich Manager