Starting with Valencia and see where i go. I hope to be more thorough with my updates and follow the examples set by abeatty and benjspurs etc.
Ok here goes...hopefully this will be more successful than my arsenal game lol
The Transfer budget i was given was £770k. Not much but there isn't much of my team that needs strengthening. The place i can identify most that would need a signing or 2 would be in defence with helguerra getting a bit past it and maduro not up to having a consistent first team slot. Also, a new goalkeeper will be in order but i should be fine for the first season. Canizares is a fantastic keeper but i know that his stats go down on a consistent level after the first season. I don't rate hildebrand to be honest. Hopefully i will be able to find a suitable replacement by the end of the season and bring him up.
The Fans were understandably upset that a virtually unknown irish manager has been appointed but i seemed to have turned it around in a short space of time as they think i am getting the best out of David Villa! Who incidently is upset and thinks i treated him unfairly by substituting him in a friendly lol!!!
No transfers in and the only transfer out as of yet is Marchena! Sold him to Palermo for £4.6m. I only get 55% of transfer fees i receive so now have a budget of £3.3million! Still not a significant amount for a first team player for valencia. Despite their real life problems i am looking forward to a good campaign and hopefully build for the future.
So...here follows screenshots of my pre-season and first few competitive matches. Let me know what you think!
Happy enough with the result. It was a fairly even game but my team were more clinical. Which in the first game of the pre-season can only be good
Much happier with this result. Dominated the game. The only disappointment was conceding the goal at such a late stage with their only shot on target.
Happy again, lots of shots, good few on target and the attackers taking their opportunities.
Delighted with this result but to be honest i was disappointed to only score 3 goals. I thought we could have been more clinical but still, 3-0 is 3-0!
Delighted with this once again, Getafe always were my bogey team as they are awkward to play against but we took our chances. Fairly even game but we created the better chances and won as a result. David villa on top form and albiol with a header early on set us up.
Worst result so far, some players were tired so rested a few, after the 3-0 home win i could afford to relax a bit but i was still hoping to win. Generally a subdued performance
Happy out with this victory away from home, went in 1-0 down at half time. Delighted with the way we came back into it and villa's early 2nd half goal got them on the back foot. We were poor in the first half but turned it around. Was lucky to go in at only 1-0 down so understandably delighted with the outcome!
Was expecting a tough tough game. Very surprised but delighted all the same. Controlled the game and brushed them aside and moved on. The manager had come out before the match and said we basically didnt have a chance with the league competition so he fired up the players better than i could have!!
A tough match but did just enough to win it. Most important thing was to get the 3 points on the board as Man United and Lazio are in the same group. Villa was a bit disappointing in this game so brought zigic on who got a nice goal from the centre of the box.
3-1 up by the time they had a player sent off so i the team just played it out once we were in control and just added the 4th mid way through the second half to kill it off for definite. Would like to be getting a few more on target so will have a tinker with the tactic and see what happens.
Will update as i go!
