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Transfer updates: So far 30 deals have happened and for us, it is 14 in and 2 out. We are highest net spenders as of now. However Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool have spent maximum on single players, with the likes of R. Varane, S.M. Savic, and D. Costa respectively. Total transfer spending is 354M for premier division clubs.
4 more players joined in for us. Contract extended for Olosunde, but his work permit is not extended. This season he was going out for loan, but next season if his work permit is not renewed than he will have to be loaned out again or sold.
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Summer transfer windows 2019 opens and here comes my first 12 signings.
They are followed by 2 more signings. Tim Odusina, 19 years old center back from Norwich and Marcin Bulka, 19 years old goal keeper from chelsea and he is free transfer.
So first week of transfer market in premier division looks like this.
European Champions Cup final loser Real Madrid are now looking to buy Lukaku, the player who destroyed them. I am not going to lose him at cheap price. Come Madrid show me the money. If at all this rumor come true and they give good money, probably more than 100M, then i will try to see if i can get Harry Kane from Tottenham hotspur. If i can get him, then only i will sell Lukaku. Whereas Barcelona are not giving up on Pogba.
Pep Guardiola, who was fired by Man City, has joined Inter Milan. Good decision for Pep, bad for Man City.
On the other side, Arsenal at its best, has signed Fatih Terim as their manager. Sorry, but who is Fatih Terim?
Now i am starting to look at my players who deserve new contract or who are having minor issue about contract. Dean Henderson is now promoted to first team and he got big 5 years contract. I am sure he will become big player. Also i renewed contract of Callum Gribbin for 4 more years, although he will be loaned out to other club to develop him.
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If you look this analysis, Phil Jones actually did good, but i am going to sell him, just because considering real life situation and he is not my favorite player. Also i had already bought Ruben Dias and want to promote Axel Tuanzebe.
Mata will leave the club and i will not renew his contract, his ratings were poor. He will be replaced by A. Pereira and let see how he performs or he will be sold next season. Also if i get decent offer for inconsistent Lingard than i will sell him too.
Dalot will be loaned out as i will be having 2 first choice RB in form of Nelson Semedo and Aaron Wan Bissaka. Young will be leaving the club for free.
Will try to sell Sergio Romero and will promote Dean Henderson in his place. Also will try to sell Hirving Lozano as he didnt settled well with us.
Scott Mctominay has to leave as well and it will be difficult decision for me, to sell him without giving him chance. As in FM19, both Mctominay and Timothy Fosu Mensah has potential rating of 140, plus Mctominay will be able to play only in CM position whereas Timothy will be good at CM, CD and RB position. Plus Timothy is only 20 years old. So i will have to keep only Timothy and sell Mctominay.
There is one Indian player too here. I will have to take care of him.
MU are now on 9th position in European club rankings. I am targeting to dislodge Real Madrid from 1st position and bring back MU to where they belongs. I dont know how i can improve English premier league rankings.
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So now we are playing against European favourites Real Madrid, the giant team. But we will give our best. Unfortunately Federico Chiesa just got injured few days back during training, however our player of the season, Martial came back fit from the injury and is ready to go ahead and play the final.
And guess the result??? We absolutely nailed them in their own backyard. Within the start of match, Bailly sent a gem of stunning long range pass directly to Lukaku and he absolutely smashed it into the nets. And then we ran riots. We won it 4-1. Lukaku scored 2 goals and Herrera as well as Martial scored 1 goal each. This is our 4th trophy of the season. And by doing so, we broke the monopoly of Spanish team Barcelona and R. Madrid to win the European trophy.
For me personally, the player of the year is Romelu Lukaku, not only he scored 29 goals, but he was the only outfield player never getting injured or suspended for a match and was available for all the matches. Besides his most favorable playing style is target man, however i was playing and training him as complete forward. So i guess next season he will be more accustomed to that style and will be even better player.
Higest average rating was always going to be either of Luke Shaw or Alex Grimaldo, both LB players and they both were amazing. At the end Alex Grimaldo took highest average rating and Luke Shaw as Young player of the season. Grimaldo also won signing of the season.
Thanks to alround performance of Herrera, he got best pass completion. Jesse Lingard got most assist, however i have to admit he was very inconsistent, just like in the real life. If good offer comes for him, probably from Arsenal, as they bid for him in winter, then i will think about selling him.
Martial got most man of the match awards.
As usual, Eric bailly proved to be very costly with his yellow cards. He need some decision making as improvement.
Grimaldo won defender of the season in European Champions Cup. Lukaku and Martial came 2nd as Forward and Midfielder respectively. I guess David De Gea could also have won but he hardly played, as i often preferred Sergio Romero in most matches. I should have stick with only 1 goal keeper throughout the season.
A. Young, Mata and probably P. Jones and Lozano will be leave their places in Highly influential players list. Fred, Grimaldo, and Chiesa will take their place. Let see who else enter list of Influential players from the new comers and youth players.
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Now talking about U23 teams, they lost their first position in U23 premier division 2 and hence lost automatic promotion to U23 premier division 1. Now they will have to play qualifying round to progress ahead. And yes, we won semifinal and final matches against Newcastle and Fulham respectively and now will play in U23 Premier division 1 next season. So happy, finally considering the status, history and position, club like MU should have their players playing at the top levels.
Now lets evaluate the season for U23 players.
Looking at this i can conclude following things
Promotion to first team permanently with occasional playing at U23 levels -
- P. Cutrone (considering his age of 21 and 36 goals 4 assists he had in 42 appearances and his market value, he would be disappointed not to play in first team next year. But the problem for me is, Lukaku, he was the only outfield player this season in first team, who was never injured or got any red card and he scored 29 goals in the season. So i guess i will have to accommodate Rashford as LW players when Martial is injured and give Cutrone a chance as striker when Lukaku is rested).
- Axel Tuanzebe (he is also 21 years old and now is the time for him to take the position of Phil Jones as i will be selling him this summer transfer season. He will be the 4th choice CB after E. Bailly, Lindelof and Ruben Dias)
- Martin Terrier (His first position is LW, which is going to congested place, as both Martial and Rashford will be first preferred for this role. His other 2 preferred playing position is striker and AM. Now striker position is also full with Lukaku and Cutrone. So i am now left with AM for him. Mata is going to leave for free, so it depends on how Lingaard plays, plus A. Pereira will get the chance to show that this position is his. So if no playing chance, Terrier will be loaned out).
- Dean Henderson (Probably i will sell Sergio Romero, because he is terrific player and it hurts to me to see him not getting any chance to play regularly due to magnificent De Gea. Also Henderson is future player of MU, so i must start giving him first team opportunity)
So Goal keeper, Center back, Striker and Attacking midfielder position are taken care of, by promoting this youth players to first team.
Players who i will definitely sell or release for free as i have to reduce the numbers of youth players and give chances to U18 players to play U23 games.
- James Wilson
- Kieran o hara
- Matty Willock (all these 3 players are 23-22 years of age and i dont see them progressing to that level where MU demands them to be)
- Demetri Mitchell
- Cameroon Borthwick Jackon (Both of these LB players showed flashes of talent in their initial days when given chance in first team, however things didnt went as expected)
- Max Dunne
- Thomas Sang
- Ro Shaun Williams
- Luca Ercolani
- Ethan Hamilton
- Matej Kovar, already sold and will leave in summer.
- DJ Buffonge
- Callum Whelan
- Joel Pereira, he is hot prospect, but he is 22 years old and competing with Dean Henderson, so i will have to choose only GK and that will be Dean.
- Zak Dearnley
- Nishan Burkart
- Josh Bohui
So out 41 players, 17 will leave, 4 will be promoted to first team. Rest of the 20 players will either remains in U23 team or will be loaned out depending on situation.
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And even before the season finish and transfer window open, my transfer activity was going on behind the scenes... Here are some of the deals i completed and these players will join us in summer 2019.
Scout recommended me to sign Matheus Cunha for any price.. that high was the recommendation and i went ahead and bought him for 18.5M, although there was difficulty for work permit for him, but i worked hard and he got the permit.
Next came Ruben Dias, also very promising and powerful center back, i already have seen him play for portugal and big clubs are already after him in real life and benfica is quoting exorbitant world record price for center back. So when i got him for just his market value as he was eagerly waiting to join me, was a big deal for me. So now i can sell Phil Jones (no disrespect, he is doing good, but i am not his fan in real life) and i will also quit my plan for Harry Maguire, especially since he is not interested in move.
Next came Adam Idah, 18 year old forward and Aaron Wan Bissaka, well everyone knows him now, 21 year right back. Although i already bought Nelson Semedo from Barcelona for 16M, now i will have 2 good right back, just like i am having on the opposite flank (Luke Shaw and Alex Grimaldo). Shaw and Grimaldo both were quite injury prone and hence there was no problem for both players as they were getting good game time. However i hope Semedo and Bissaka have no problems with game time. Also now i can send Dalot and Olosunde out on loan.
Kingsley Michael, 19 year midfielder from Bologna was next player, however he is not going to get work permit and i will have to loan him out.
Wilson Isidor, 18 year midfielder from Monaco, has very high potential of 5 star and was recommended by my scout. Although Monaco was very tough in negotiation, but i kept on bidding for long time and finally i got him.
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And here comes our 3rd trophy, the FA Cup.... And what more interesting thing, we won it against arch rivals, noisy neighbour, Man City... We were without our star player A. Martial, but off form Lingard came into form in right time and scored the first goal, followed by second goal from Lukaku. We won it 2-0..
And what the shocking news, Pep Guardiola is fired by City!!!!! I can't dream this to actually happen in the real world....
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Man Utd won the Premier Division 2018-19 year... Yes we won the premier division and it is now our 2nd trophy of the year. We remained undefeated in the whole season and won 32 matches out of 38 !!!!
We achieved the Premier division records of Highest points achieved (102 points) and lowest number of defeat (0 defeat) in a single season.
Meanwhile Martial was the star player for this season of premier division. He won Player of the year award, English player's player of the year award, and English player's young player of the year award. David de gea won English premier division golden glove award.
David de gea, Eric bailly, A. Martial, Fred, A. Herrera and R. Lukaku were named among the english premier division team of the year (total 6 out of 11 players). What surprising was inclusion of Fred and not Pogba... I guess they might have included character and loyalty as a factor in naming best players
I won the Head coach of the year award with total coach points of 1139.
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We won against Man City in semifinal of European Champions cup and now we are in final against Real Madrid, the one who are winning it for 3 times in a row and have total 13 cups.
Our U23 team won the final match of U23 Premier division cup against U23 of Arsenal....
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Two unhappy players - Martial & Grimaldo
Both Martial and Grimaldo, despite their contract running for 4 more years, on good enough salary of 160k p/w & 92k p/w respectively, despite getting good enough minutes on ground and importances, were unhappy with their contracts. Grimaldo even went one step ahead and showed his displeasure in media. Ultimately i had to offer them new contracts to keep them happy, after negotiating hard.
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Here comes the second trophy, the more important one, the English Premier Division.....
And i am on cloud nine after this... A proud moment for all Indians...
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I was planning to replace Phil Jones with Harry Maguire, however on FM19 i guess Maguire isn't better player than Jones. Maguire potential is 153 ratings and 4 star, while Jones potential is 152 and 4 star. Plus Leicester is asking for about 63M and not negotiating below it while his current valuation is 24M, and Maguire himself is not interested in joining. So bad luck for him. I will continue with Jones as of now and have given him new contract.
Signed new Center back, Nathan Wood, 16 years old from Middlesborough. with potential ability between 130-160, could become better than current center backs i am having, and he is just 16 years old kid. Bought him for just 2.1M without any clauses. Hopefully he will be first team player soon.
Besides 17 years old Teden Mengi (Center back) and Anthony Elanga (Winger) both signed professional contract and have very bright and promising future.
U23 team won semi final of U23 Premier division cup against Southampton U23.
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We won against Chelsea in semifinal of FA cup, the team which is in 2nd position in Premier division and are performing good. Now we will have to play against ..... in final of FA cup. Lets hope we emerge victorious on Wembley.
In Champions cup quarter final against arch rival Liverpool, it was boring affairs in both the legs. In Anfield, we managed to draw with scoreline reading 1-1. We were unlucky with many first team players absent, Bailly as usual suspended due to red cards, Lindelof injured, Chiesa injured. So we had to play with youngster Tyrell Warren and Phil Jones in center defence. Pogba scored for us and later also got red carded and hence suspended for the second leg, which provided much needed chance of Fred to play. In second leg, it was even more dull game, as none of the team could score. By means of away goal rule, we managed to progress in the next round of semi final of Champions cup. We are now paired against another arch rivals Man City in all english affairs, whereas another semifinal will be played between Real Madrid and PSG. I am very much hopeful of reaching Final.
Our U23 team advanced to Semi final of U23 premier division cup after defeating arch rival Liverpool, just like first team. Similarly U18 team have move 1 step ahead of them and have won English U18 division title. Congratulations to both of these teams.
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Monthly awards are raining now.
Pogba wons Player of the month award and Chiesa wons Young player of the month award ahead of Pulisic, justifying my first choice in transfer market. I was also not behind in award as i scoop manager of the month award.
Also talking about records, about highest points in a season and highest matches won in a season, i guess i can get this record this season.
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SCOUT ASSIGNMENT CHANGES
Ok so scouting assignment was handled by Jim Lawlor, chief scout. It was on general focus. Now i changed it and took the responsibility on myself and gave every scout their target region, country and competition. Also told them to search only players with maximum age of 19 and potential of star.
- Jim Lawlor - Next opposition.
- Gerardo Guzman - Spain, Under 19 Spain and Spanish U19 cup.
- Jose Mayorga - Argentina, Italy, Under 20 Italy and Italian U20 cup.
- Luciano Canepa - France and Under 19 France.
- Sandro Orlandelli - Brazil and Mexico.
- John Calvert Toulmin - South America, Copa libertadores and Copa sudamericana.
- Nils Schmaler - Germany, Poland, German youth cup and Under 19 Germany.
- Omar Sciolla - West Africa, North Africa, African confederation cup and African champions league.
- David Williams - Wales, England, Under 18 England, and English FA youth cup.
- Simon Wells - England, European U19 championship qualifying, European U20 Elite league and U19 Champions cup.
- Budimir Vujacic - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey.
- Johnny Peeters - Belgium, Ukraine, Central Africa, Southern Africa, and East Africa.
- Armand Benneker - Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
- Mark Prizant - USA and North America.
- Kei Tamura - East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, China, Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and U23 Asian nations cup qualifying.
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COACHING STAFF FOR U18
Head Coach: Neil Ryan, 45 English, on 2k p/w contract till 2021, good score. Will continue. He will be promoted to coach of U23, replacing Mike Marsh.
Assistant coach: Collin Little, 46 English, on 1.2k p/w contract till 2020, good score. Will continue. Can take over from Neil Ryan in future.
Goal keeper coach:
- Kevin Wolfe, 54 English, score of 44, good, last year of contract, demands 1.4k p/w. I guess i will renew it, may be 1 or 2 years.
- Kieran Wolland, 23 English, score of 20, thats very very poor, last year of contract, thanks god. Replacement candidate already mentioned in previous post.
Fitness coach: Charlie Owen, 32 English, score of 17, contract till 2020, earns 750 p/w. Good.
Coach: Tony Whelan will be staying with us. John Cooke and Tommy Martin have not so good score, their contract expires on 2020. Will think about them later.
Medical staff:
Physio:
- Daniel Torpey, 32 English, physio score of 14. last year of contract. Will not be renewed.
- Neil Hough, 50 English, physio score of 16, last year. Wants to be U18 physio rather than U23 physio. Offered new contract of 2.2k p/w.
- Russ Hayes, 40 English, physio score of 16, contracts till 2020, earns 1k p/w.
- Steve Devine, 54 Northern Irish, physio score of 18, contracts till 2021, earns 1.6k p/w, will be promoted to U23.
Sports Scientist:
- Peter Hood, 42 English, score of 10, contract till 2021. Will not be renewed.
- Gary Davenport, 45 English, score of 11, contract till 2021. Will not be renewed.
- Tony Daley, 51 English, score of 12, contract till 2021. Will think about renewal.
Recruitment staff:
Data analyst:
- Ciaran Hughes, 23 English, with score of 36. Last year of contract, demands 850 p/w.
- Francisco Belo, 24 Portuguese, with score of 35, contract till 2021 on 1.4k p/w.
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COACHING STAFF FOR U23
U23 Head coach Ricky Sbragia of Man U, compared with Carlos Gonzalez U19 Head coach of Atletico Madrid. I am planning to get him in place of Ricky. Especially since Ricky man management and motivating score are very poor compared to Carlos.
Assistant coach, Neil wood is good and he will keep his place.
Goalkeeper coach, Alan Fettis, with goalkeeper score of 47, especially goalkeeper distribution score of 13, is not good enough. So his contract will not be renewed. His replacement candidate will be Inaki Bergara 57 Spanish, with total score of 54, working with youngster score of 19, demands 2.9k p/w.
Fitness coach, Mark Hulse, 48 English, with fitness score of 18, mental attributes 40. Better than any of 3 fitness coach of first team. He will replace Stefano Rapetti in first team when both of their contract expire in 2021.
Coach: Steven Gatting and Mike Marsh. I am not sure how good they are. Do not want to go deeper as of now, since their contract runs for 2 and 1 more years respectively. Mike Marsh seems to me like poor among them, with technical and working with youngster score of 7 each.
Medical Staff
Physio: Jonny Kelly and Tom Hughes, both of them are not good enough and their contract will not be renewed. Tom contract will expire this season and his replacement candidates can be
- Neil Fitzhenry, 40 English, physio score of 18, contract runs till 2020, demands 1.4K p/w and 55k in compensation to watford.
- John Alti, 36 English, physio score of 18, contract expires this season, demands 1.1k p/w and 14k in compensation to reading.
- Luke Van Zyl, 28 English, physio score of 18, contract expires this season, demands 1.1k p/w and 14k in compensation to birmingham.
- Chris Bowman, 27 English, physio score of 18, free agent, demands 900 p/w.
Sport scientist: James Parr and Simon Evans, both of them are not good enough, and their contract which expires on 2021 and 2020 respectively, will not be renewed. Their replacement candidates are
- Michael Cheverton, 49 English, score of 17, contract runs untill 2020, demands 1.7k p/w and 90k in compensation to Leicester.
- Gary Capes, 43 English, score of 16, contract runs untill 2020, demands 925 p/w and 22k in compensation to Leicester.
- Mat Mitchell King, 25 English, score of 16, contract runs untill 2020, demands 925 p/w and 22k in compensation to Sunderland.
Recruitment staff:
Data analyst: Luke Lazenby score is poor than Sam Hall and so his contract will not be renewed.
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COACHING STAFF FOR FIRST TEAM:
Marcel Bout - Assistant coach.... His contract is running upto 2022... History: Assistant coach of Bayern Munich 2010-12, Netherlands Coach 2012-14, Scout for Man U 2014-18, and now Assistant coach for Man U.... I dont think of changing him.
Nicky Butt - Head of youth development. History: Man U player 1991-2004, than he played for Newcastle, Birmingham and in china, than joined Man U, first as Reserve coach from 2012-14, Assistant coach 2014, Reserve assistant coach 2014-16 and now Head of youth development... I will extend his contract, no doubt.
Goalkeeping coach
- Emilio Alvarez, 47 spanish, salary 5k p/w, with goalkeeping total score of 51. Will extend his contract as he is good friend of spanish gk David De Gea.
- Silvino Louro, 60 portuguese, salary 10k p/w, with goalkeeping total score of 46. Will not extend his contract as he is aging, high salary demand and low total score compared to Emilio alvarez.
Replacement candidate for Silvino Louro
- Franck Raviot, 45 French, free agent, total score of 58, highest i guess, however he is not currently interested into entering into contract negotiations.
- Toni Tapalovic, 38 Croatian, GK coach of Bayern Munich, total score of 57, contract running upto June 2019, not interested into negotiations right now. Will check later again.
- Xavi Valero, 46 Spanish, GK coach of West Ham, total score of 57, contracted upto 2021, ready to sign, demands 3.3k p/w, 350K compensation to West Ham. Good mental attributes.
- Toni Mengual, 28 Spanish, Gk coach of Malaga, total score of 57, contracted upto 2020, ready to sign, demands 3.1k p/w, 160k compensation to Malaga.
- Andreas Hilfiker, 50 Swiss, Gk coach of Wolfsburg, total score of 56, contracted upto 2020, ready to sign, demands 5.5k p/w, 230K compensation to Wolfsburg.
- Leonardo Rincon, 43 Colombian, GK coach of Bogota, colombian second division, total score of 56, ready to sign, demands 400 p/w, 3.5k compensation to Bogota.
- Rui Barbosa, 45 Portugese, GK coach of Wolves, total score of 55, ready to sign, demands 3.2k p/w, 200k compensation to Wolves. Good mental attributes.
- Sierd van der berg, 50 Dutch, free agent, total score of 54, demands 1.7k p/w
Pablo Vercellone, 50 Argentinian, GK coach of A. Madrid, highest total score of perfect 60, not ready to join any other club as he enjoy good relationship with Diego Simeone.
Gianluca Spinelli, 52 Italina, Gk coach of PSG, another one of highest score of perfect 60 and good mental attributes, contracted upto 2020, not ready to enter into negotiations. Will check later again.
Hugo Oliveira, 49 Portuguese, GK coach of Tottenham, 2nd highest score of 58, similar to Franck Raviot, but long term contract with Tottenham and hence do not want to join.
Fitness coach:
- Carlos Lalin, 48 Spanish, Fitness score 19, Mental attributes 30, last year contract, demands 6k p/w.
- Gary Walker, 38 English, Fitness score 17, Mental attributes 29, contract till 2020 4k p/w
- Stefano Rapetti, 46 Italian, Fitness score 14, Mental attributes 43 (good, but main fitness score is poor), contract till 2021, 8k p/w.
Seems like no one will get a new contract.
Their replacement candidates:
- Jesus Perez, 47 Spanish, fitness score 19, free agent, demands 5.5K p/w, Good mental attributes of 47, good with youngster 16.
- Tony Colbert, 55 English, fitness score 19, free agent, demands 900 p/w, Good mental attributes of 51.
Coach:
- Kieran Mckenna: A tottenham player, later on getting himself up as U18 coach during 2012-13, U18 head coach during 2013-16, than moving on to Man U with brilliant past record and good future, as U18 head coach during 2016-18 and now as Coach for first team. He will remain with the club.
- Michael Carrick: A Man U player from 2006 to 2018, ideal footballer and now as coach for first team Man U. He will also remain with the club.
- Boro Primorac: A better coach than both other coach, elder one with 64 years of age, vast experience of coach of arsenal from 1997 to 2018. He will also stay till his retirement.
Medical Team:
- Steve McNally (Chief Doctor) and Tony Gill (Doctor) do not have any in game information and are irreplaceable. You cannot replace a doctor. They are best everywhere.
- Head Physio: Richie Merron, 55 English, physio score of 19. Earns 4k p/w. U23 physio for Man u 2002-17 and now Head physio for first team. Will stay with us untill his retirement.
- Physio: John Davin, 50 English, Physio score of 18. Earns 1k p/w, last year of contract, demands 1.4k p/w, physio for U18 from 2004-17 and now for first team. Will renew his contract.
- Physio: Garry Armer, 54 English, physio score of 14 (not good). Earns 1k p/w. Last year of contract and will not be renewed. Physio for Man U first team from 2002.
- Physio: Jonny Picot, 41 English, physio score of 14 (not good). Earns 1.5k p/w. Contract expires next year and will not be renewed. U18 physio for 2016-17 and then for first team.
- Physio: David Fevre, 58 English, physio score of 17, earns 1.5k p/w. Contract expires on 2022. Was physio for Man u during 1994-99, then went to Blackburn and now back again with Man U from 2018.
- Head of Sports science: David Kelly, 47 English, sports science score of 18, earns 4k p/w, last season of contract, demands 4.7k p/w. Working with Man U since 2010. There is only 1 person better than him with sport science score of 19, Marco Luison, 48 Italian and currently with Juventus, demands 6.75k p/w and 40K compensation to Juventus. So may be i guess i will stick with David Kelly.
- Sports scientist: Robin Thorpe, 31 English, with sp. science score of 15, earns 750 p/w, last season of contract, demands 1.2k p/w. Working with Man U since 2009. Will replace him with Mat Mitchel King, 25 English, sp. science score of 16, demands 925 p/w and 22k in compensation to Sunderland. Younger, more score and less salary than Robin Thorpe.
- Sports Scientist: Paolo Gaudino, 32 Italian, with score of 14, less than Robin Thorpe, but his contract runs till 2021. Earns 750 p/w. Will replace him with Richard Kirby, 26 English, with score of 16, his contract ending in 2020 for wolves.
- Sports scientist: Richard Hawkins, 45 English, with Man U since 2008, score of 16. Earns 3K p/w, contract till 2021.
Another candidate to get is Gary Capes, 43 English, score of 16, contract expires on 2020 from Leicester.
Recruitment Team:
This is where we are in abundance, unnecessarily. Recruitment team have total of 42 members and board members feel it to be too large and they want it to reduce to 23 members in future. So i have to cut them down. Out of these 42 members, there are 34 scouts and i have to reduce it to 16 scouts only. That means i will have to remove more than half of them, 18 scouts to be exact. Also out of 9 data analyst, 1 will have to leave. Untill i reduce them, i won't be able to sign new members.
So talking about Scout
Jim Lawlor (Chief Scout, 53 Irish) and Gerardo Guzman (Scout, 43 Spanish) have scouting total score (Player potential and Player ability) of 39, which is highest among Man U scouts. So this will be our benchmark.
I mutually terminated contract with scouts like John Thorburn (score 32), Piotr Sadowski (score 32), Dougie George (score 32), Steve Brown (score 31) and Jack Patchett (score of 21, he was more of data analyst and less of scout, worked as data analyst for Arsenal and god knows why he was contracted with Man U as scout, when i tried to offer him contract as data analyst, he wasn't interested, so here he goes, i terminate his contract, of course mutually). By doing so, that is removing 5 scout before their contract expires, i had to pay 280K as compensation. Their contract were atleast 1 or more years left to run, so i cannot wait for them to expire. Huge amount, but i had to pay for the mistake done by my predecessor.
So now we have 29 scouts total left with me. Now among them, 23 scouts' contract are expiring this season. So i have not to renew contract of atleast 13 scouts with least scouting score. But this is not as easy as counting the score, there are some scouts with same countries covered, whereas there are some regions or countries which are not covered at all. So have to do thorough checking of all scouts.
These are 12 scouts who will not be offered new contracts: Mathieu Louis Jean (score 27), Ricardo Formosinho (26), Tony Coulter (29), Joao Ferreira (30), Thomas Borman (30), Sergio De Souza (31), Henny De Rigt (32), Tommy Moller Nielsen (32), Jorge Alvial (32), Roy Beukenkamp (33), Tom Critchley (34) and Juan Mauricio Echhe (34).
So at the beginning of new season i will be left with 17 scouts, still 1 more than allowed. Will check it out about it later next season. This was very hectic things to do correction in recruitment team.
Among data analyst, Chief data analyst is Mick Court, 44 English, with Man U since 2008, with data score of 49, which will be our benchmark. And we will have to remove atleast 1 data analyst. Tom Green is the one with least score of 39 and contract running untill 2020, which will not be renewed. I do not find it urgent to terminate data analyst contract and pay termination compensation.
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Now talking about staff members, we have total of 108 staff members. Coaching team and Medical team both have 11 members each. However recruitment team have total of 42 members and board members feel it to be too large and they want it to reduce to 23 members in future. So i have to cut them down. Out of these 42 members, there are 34 scouts and i have to reduce it to 16 scouts only. That means i will have to remove more than half of them, 18 scouts to be exact. Also out of 9 data analyst, 1 will have to leave.
Now comparing these staff with the premier league clubs, it comes out as
1st in Goalkeeper handling. 4th best in terms of Goalkeeper shot stopping and Goalkeeper distribution. This needs improvement and coach will be replaced next season.
1st in Attacking. 3rd in defending.
3rd in Fitness.
1st in Mental and Technical.
2nd in Tactical and Man management.
However our recruitment team is 1st in every aspect, be it judging player potential, player ability, player data, team data or presenting data.
Among medical team, we are 3rd in physiotherapy, and 2nd in sport science. A big improvement is also needed here.
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Ok so new transfer budget and payroll for upcoming season has come out from the owner Glazer. I am not sure where will i use 140M
especially since from now onwards i will focus more on youth players and may be i will try to get Harry Maguire.
I am not much hopeful for Herrera to win Player of the year award, although may be he has played most number of games consistently for MU, he has also got 1 or 2 red card, but still i will root for him to win.... He along with Lukaku and both Luke Shaw and Alex Grimaldo have performed excellently throughout the season. Lukaku performance though not rated highly but he has scored 22 goals already. Martial in 1st part of the season was excellent, but after winter break he is on and off, may be injuries disrupted his performance. I guess Salah would win it.
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Apart from Pogba, there are some good news inside club transfer and contract activity. Rashford contract was extended by 1 year. I dont know why was it done right now, i agree he is definitely in my plan and if he do not succeed for MU than he will be my failure and so i am not going to sell him, but anyway his contract was going to extended anyhow in future, so why not now. Besides Anthony Elanga will sign a 3 year contract once he turns 17 in few days. He is playing well in U18 team.
Bought few youth players who were performing better in youth matches. And decided to sell Matej Kovar, 18 year old GK, who was not performing upto my high standard of expectation and in next few days will sell many more players and will release for free others in their last year of contract.
These are the players on their last few days of contract. Although Woodward is advising me to sign Mata, i will not, as i am planning to include Andreas Pereira in that AM position, besides Lingard is performing very good as shadow striker. Also i am going to welcome Felix from loan back to club, so i will have 3 good players for AM. Not to forget, Angel Gomes is also knocking the door of first team. But i will be sad for Mata, the most professional and most humble player in current MU team to leave.
Among all these i just used contract extension option of George Tanner as he is playing good and i will try to see how he progress. Rest all these players will be released at the end of this season.
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Pogba saga continues... Now Barcelona general manager has started scouting him... First he visited to watch him play for MU, than he visited to watch him play for France.
Now Barcelona players has gone down to low level of luring Pogba and thereby showing disrespect to MU. Even Messi doing the same... Disgusting....
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MU won knock out round of European Champions cup against Galatasaray with 6-2 aggregate score. And now we are pitted against Liverpool in Quater final match.
As we talked in previous post about MU U18 team winning U18 Premier division cup against Man city, now our U18 team lost against Real Madrid U19 team in Quarter final of U19 Champions cup and also later lost against Middlesbrough U18 team in Semi final of U18 FA youth cup. Next season i will have to shake off coaching staff and bring more experienced and reputed coaches.
Meanwhile U23 team secure playoff place in U23 Premier Divison 2!!!! OMG i was not aware that our U23 team were playing in U23 Premier division level 2... That was bad.... Never mind, now i am here, we will rock Division 1 next season.
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Not every players cause trouble to their own club like Paul Pogba. Victor Lindelof signs new 4 years contract worth 30M pounds. Happy & delighted to have him 4 more years.
Elsewhere in a premier league match against bitter rival Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, MU won it 1-0 but our performance was not that good. Although i cannot blame much, as i was forced to play Phil Jones and Matt Olosunde as center back, as Bailly was as usual suspended for many yellow cards and Lindelof was injured. Thanks to Olosunde who is RB as his first position played really well. Also Liverpool got their 2 players red carded and at the end they were playing with just 9 players, credit to them for keeping scoreline respectable to them.
A reporter informed me that so far i have used 34 different players in premier division. I think i am proud of it, that i can play youth player in premier division and win the match, that i can trust these young players and players trust me, that i can give opportunity to each and every players, including youth players.
Meanwhile U18 team won U18 Premier Divison Cup against arch rivals Man City. Kudos kids.
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[FM19] A Red Devils Journey
in FM Career Updates
Posted · Edited by kenitpatel
Hello readers, i am back after a long time. Hope everyone is safe and doing well during this Covid19 pandemic.
So the season has ended and transfer market is open for 2019-20 season.
Image is of period just after previous season ended and of period when transfer market is closed and new 2019-20 season is about to begin. So my top 3 team leaders (Pogba, De gea & Herrera) are still the same and i have retained them. No changes in them.
4 players (Lingard, Jones, Young & Lozano) are not seen in highly influential players list as they are sold and so now instead of 11 players, there is only 7 players. I guess, Fred, Chiesa, Pereira & Semedo will enter this list by the end of this season.
1 player in form of Romero is removed from influential players list as he is sold and his place is taken by Pereira, who i guess will move to highly influential players list very soon.
Bought some very promising players like Ivan Martinez 17 years GK, Lee Kangin 18 years midfielder, Davide Betella 19 years center back, Javi Ontiveros 21 years attacking winger, Oihan Sancet 19 years center midfielder, Pol Lozano 19 years center midfielder, Sergio Gomez 19 years midfielder, Cesar Gelabert 18 years attacking midfielder..
Also sold some of my players like, Hirving Lozano to Bayern Munich for 47M pound, Phil Jones to Lazio for upto 38M pound and Jesse Lingard to Chelsea for upto 74M pound. Chelsea has bought 3 players so far in 1 year from MU, i sold them Alexis Sanchez in last summer season, then Lee Grant in winter season and now Lingard.
Meanwhile i also extended contract of Andreas Pereira for 4 years upto 2023. Will sell him after increasing his value before his contract expire, once Felix and Morilla are ready to take up attacking midfield position.