FM Offside – Shrewsbury

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Shrewsbury v Barnet

Shrewsbury 2 : Barnet 1
Goals: Brugniad (28) Madjo (55)

After our disappointing game against Bury I was looking for a result. Luckily our next game was at home to Barnet who the media had tipped at finishing 14th this season. Unfortunately Almerares was still out due to injury along with Simpson so I had to rely on Madjo to start up front with Holt. Read the rest of this entry »

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And so our season begins, the friendlies are over, the new faces have arrived and now the real work begins in trying to take this club somewhere. By the wonders of the alphabetic ordering system and that Bournemouth, Rotherham and Luton are all starting on negative points this season we’re currently lying in 20th.

I’ve never been in the situation where my club has entered administration but I’ve read that whenever an offer is made on one of your players, you have no option but to accept it. I’m presuming that these must be decent offers and I’m not going to be able to loot these three squads for less that the price of a couple of beers. Has anyone been in that situation before?
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As mentioned in my last post I have come up with a dastardly devious plan to bring in some better staff to Shrewsbury without having to pay huge termination costs. If I want to be taking the team to new heights I can’t underestimate just how important having good backroom staff is. Unfortunately I can’t afford the crippling costs of paying out compensation to my current bunch and so it looked like I was stuck with them until either a) I had a lot more money in the bank, or b) their contracts expire.

Then I had a bright idea.
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As mentioned in my last post I’ll have to do some wheeler dealing before the season kicks off. Top of the list is a Goalkeeper as my current no. 1 is only on loan until January. A back up left sided Midfieder to cover for Davies is necessary along with a decent right sided Midfielder. With 6 Strikers in the squad that’s one position I don’t need to look into, which brings me nicely to my first signing Federico Almerares. A Striker.

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Welcome to the foot of the Football League. Below us lies the wastelands of the Conference and above us sit the best footballing teams of England and Wales.
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