Last season we actually managed to hold on to the majority of our players during the transfer period for the first time, and we didn’t really lose a key player at all until further into the season. But can that particular feat repeat itself this season… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 34 – End of Season 4 Transfer Update
Now, losing players to bigger, more reputable clubs has been a recurring and slightly annoying feature of our time at this club. But it is at least understandable why a player would leave given the opportunity to play at a higher level and maybe even earn some wages. One of our long serving players, however, had a different attitude towards his career direction it seems… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 31 – An Odd Transfer
Last time out I showed you that so far our squad hadn’t been decimated by bigger clubs snapping up our players from their amateur contracts, for once. And actually, compared to previous seasons it has carried on that way and although we have lost a few players which I am about to show, we have managed to keep a very decent squad together mostly… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 28 – Start of Season 4 Transfer Update & Expectations
After another successful season, we reach the last club event before the players and some of the staff go away for their annual holiday period. That event is of course the players awards evening for the season… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 27 – Season 3 Awards & Transfers Update
The board have informed us of what is expected of us for this season and once again they aren’t giving us an easy ride, which is fine, we have big ambitions anyway. But it also means that they give us no room for slip ups either… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 22 – More Transfers and Season 3 Expectations
You’ve already seen that we have had another successful season but to tie things of nicely, I’ll present the end of season review and the end of season player awards for the 2016/16 season… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 20 – Season 2 Review & Awards Plus Transfer Beginnings
Providing the board haven’t decided to do anything stupid financially or we’ve had an argument and have been given the sack, there’s only one obvious category for bad news to fall into.
Yes it’s back to the good old amateur contracts causing trouble again.
Time to take your bets as to who it is this time. The clue is that it is of course someone who was beginning to be a prominent player and was mentioned in the last post… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 17 -Bit of Bad News
You will have seen from the last post that a huge number of players left the club over the summer to chase their dreams at higher levels and that means that we’ve had to bring in a huge number of replacements, and for reasons I will go into deeper in a separate tips and tricks post, this may turn out to be fairly good in terms of squad personality.
But anyway, on to the new faces… Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 15 – Replacements
Before I go on and into more detail on our transfer window, I’m going to invite you to take a guess at how many players we have lost to bigger clubs over this transfer period. As I am writing this we are actually in November and players on amateur contracts can be signed at any point during the extended free transfer period. So how many do you think have gone? Continue reading Pub Team to Manager’s Dream Part 14 – Has The Looting Finished yet?
…for our best players. Is the ending to the sentence in the post title.
As I predicted earlier on in the season, many of our players have been subject to bids from bigger and mostly semi-professional teams with their attractive wage paying contracts.
So here is the news on that up to this point… Continue reading Pub Team to manger’s Dream Part 13 – A Flurry of Transfer Bids…
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