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Season 5 Review: Competitons: Premier League: A Great season as we retain the Premier League title with 88 points, we finish 4 clear of Liverpool in second place We finished with the most goals scored 105 Rasmus Hojlund finished the season top scorer in the league with 22 goals, Mr. Robot Erling Haaland only managed 21 Archie Brown won player and players player of the year with Shea Lacey picking up young player of the season FA Cup: Another win here for us with a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in the final. Carabao Cup: Yet Another final but unfortunately a loss here as we go down 5-4 to Newcastle on penalties. Champions League: We finally lost our grip on Europe's premier competition with a 2-1 Semi final loss to PSG who went on the beat Man City in the final. There have been some fantastic individual performances this year, not least from Shea Lacey who in his first season in the first team squad took home the Golden Boy Trophy, with 5 goals and 17 assists. Rasmus Hojlund finished as the league and Champions League top scorer Season 6 Preview: Transfers: Another busy pre season, first we see Diogo Dalot leave to join Real Madrid for £65m Diogo has been a great servent for the team but has pretty much played back up to Livramento since he joined. As soon as Madrid made their offer he wanted to leave. This sees fellow Portugal wonderkid Miguel Morais join from Rio Ave for £30m. Next Lisandro Martinez was subject to a £43m bid from Al-Hilal and confirmed that he too wanted to leave. Martinez has been a consistent starter for us so losing him is a blow but this will now hopefully give Branthwaite the opportunity to step as our first choice CB. Belgian wonderkid defender Laurentius Geys joins from Club Brugge as the long term replacement costing £22m Back up defender Ronnie Edwards was next to leave he has done a solid job for us when called upon but we have a fantastic looking player in our youth team who came through in season three's intake so Welsh 18 year Mark Joyce is promoted into the first team to serve as back up Moving up the pitch Shola Shoretire has stagnated in the past two season and contributed 0 goals or assists in the 21 games he was involved in so when Borussia Dortmund came in with a £7m offer it was a no brainer. Once again we had player waiting in our youth team with Portugese Winger Vadio Barreto now ready to make the step up. Finally Altay Bayindir leaves the club, over the past few years he has been a solid number 2 for us but Radek Vitek is ready to step into those boots and German Youngster Philipp Eidinger is a capable number 3 following his signing from Koln for £14m. Bayinder joins Fulham to be their new number 1 for £14.5m. There has been one more incoming, which has broken our rule set out in the first post as we have not sold a player for this one to come in and replace but we have been tracking French youth striker Enzo Poulain from Lyon for 3 seasons now and after a break out year of scoring 23 goals in 30 Ligue 2 games out on loan last season we pulled the trigger on bringing him to Old Trafford for his £6m release fee. Squad for Season 6: GK: Andre Onana, Radek Vitek and Philipp Eidinger RB: Tino Livramento and Miguel Morais LB: Archie Brown and Harry Amass CB: Jarrad Branthwaite, Dimitar Ganchev, Laurentius Geys and Mark Joyce DM: Kobbie Mainoo, Conor Gallagher, Scott McTominey and Daniel Gore AM: Mason Mount, Alex Scott, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Shea Lacey, Gabriele Biancheri and Vadio Barreto FW: Rasmus Hojlund, Carlos Motta and Enzo Poulain We now have 9 players promoted from the youth teams/intakes into the current first team squad. Our net transfer spend is now +£474m and the clubs overall debt has fallen to £61m with just one outstanding loan left to be paid and our wage bill is the 8th biggest in the league and well below Man City who have finished 5th and 8th in the past two seasons

Season Four Review: This season saw us take a step back domestically dropping from league winners last season to fourth place this year. We also fared no better in the domestic cups being knocked out of the FA cup in the quarter finals by Brighton and the League cup in the 4th round by Leeds. Europe was a different animal as we went on the threepeat the Champions league with a 4-3 extra time over Barcelona. Individually there were some solid performances this year too with: Rasmus Hojlund, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Mason Mount and Donny Van der Beek all scoring 10+ goals across all competitions. Rashford and Hojlund getting 25 and 27 respectively. As we move into pre-season for season 5 we have some decisions to make around where we cash in on players and look to build on our philosophy set out in the post above. With that in mind the following transfers have taken place so far: Transfers: In January Luke Shaw moved on to Saudi Arabian club Al-Ahli for an initial £77m rising to £92m with add-ons. Luke had been a regular starter for us but this kind of money was far too good to turn down. This sees Harry Amass bought up into the first team squad as his replacement. Next Joe Hugill left the club for £6.25m moving across to Blackburn after a decent first season in the main squad. This means that Gabriele Biancheri has now been promoted to the first team squad to replace him. Then James Scanlon left to join Burnley for £5.75m after two seasons on the periphary of the first team he had stagnated and there were better options available out there. In his place Argentine 18 year wonderkd Carlos Motta joins from San Lorenzo for an initial £4m rising to £8m with add-ons Next a slew of youth player who had not made the grade left the club with Harrison, Wheatley, Nolan, Fletcher and McAllister leaving for a combined £1.7m We then saw some big business occur with first a massive offer of £57m coming in from Inter Milan for Donny Van der Beek. Despite two seasons of real good performances from the Dutch midfielder at 29 years of age this was too good to turn down. Dan Gore is now ready for more first time football so we could afford to let him go. Lastly club captain and season 1 balon d'or winner Bruno Fernandes leaves the club to move over to the Saudi Pro League and finish his career off making more money than he could have ever dreamed of growing up, a fee of £111m upfront confirming his departure to Al-Hilal. Alex Scott joins for his £93m release fee from Bournemouth as his replacement. That leaves us with a first team squad going into season 5 of: GK: Andre Onana, Altay Bayindir and Radek Vitek RB: Tino Livramento and Diogo Dalot LB: Archie Brown and Harry Amass CB: Lisandro Martinez, Jarrad Branthwaite, Ronnie Edwards and Dimitar Ganchev DM: Kobbie Mainoo, Conor Gallagher, Scott McTominey and Dan Gore AM: Alex Scott, Mason Mount, Shola Shoretire, Shea Lacey, Gabriele Biancheri and Alejandro Garnacho FW: Rasmus Hojlund and Carlos Motta Since taking over we now have a net positive transfer spend of £415m, have promoted 11 players from the youth teams into the first team squad, 7 of which are still here and added 5 additional home grown in nation players.

Decided to start my final long term save with United, to mix things up a little I have set some ground rules when it comes to transfers. 1. When selling a player the first option must to be to promote from within the clubs youth team. For example season one I sold Varane to Al-Nasser and have promoted Will Fish to the first team 2. If there is not a suitable youth player to replace the player sold I must then look for an English player 25 or younger. 3. If no suitable English player 25 or younger can be found I must then look for an English player of any age. 4. If no suitable English player is available I must then look for any player aged 25 or under 5. If no suitable player under the age of 25 is found then I can then go for any player of any age. 6. No purchased player can cost more than the player they are coming in to replace. So far in to season 4: Players promoted to the first team: Ehlyr Harrison, Will Fish, Dan Gore, Shea Lacey, James Scanlon, Shola Shoretire and Joe Hugill Players Purchased: Tino Livramento, Ronnie Edwards, Jarrad Branthwaite, Archie Brown, Conor Gallagher Players Sold/released: Tom Heaton, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof, Rafael Varane, Brandon Williams, Alvaro Fernandez, Willy Kambwala, Tyrell Malacia, Casemeiro, Christian Eriksen, Jadon Sancho, Amad Diallo, Facundo Pellestri, Hannibal, Omari Forson, Anthony Martial and Antony. Playing a 4231 with 2 CWB 2 DMs 3 Shadow Strikers and an advanced forward meaning we're free scoring but are prone to the occasional game where we concede a lot. Notable team achievements so far: Season One: 3rd in the league, Final of the Carabao Cup, Winners of the FA Cup, Semi-Finals of the Champions League Season Two: 1st in the Premier League, Semi-Final of the FA Cup, Winners of the Champions League Season Three: 1st in the Premier League, Final of the Carabao Cup, Final of the FA Cup, Winners of the Champions League Notable Player Achievements: Bruno Fernandes - Balon d'or winner season one. Marcus Rashford - Balon d'or runner up season 2 and 3. 35 League goals Season 3 Rasmus Hojlund - 41 goals in all competitions Season 2 Other notable things: 1. Scott McTominney and Donny Van Der Beek have both developed into excellent players who I now wouldn't sell unless very large offers were to come in. 2. Andre Onana is the best keeper in the world.