Josh_MU: Thanks bud!

Pauker: Honestly, he's not that good, so I'm happy I got so much money for him. As for Annan, perhaps he's not €35k per week good, but he is the best defensive midfielder at the club now, and hopefully he does well!

Nice update, also a good signing. Team is already good enough to compete eh?

AaronHJFT96: Thanks bud, and yes, with the addition of Annan, I think the side is looking quite capable of challenging toward the top end of the table!

REAL SOCIEDAD 3-0 CERCLE BRUGGE
XABI PRIETO x2, IKER HERNANDEZ
XABI PRIETO

REAL SOCIEDAD 4-1 CLUB BRUGGE
INIGO MARTINEZ, XABI PRIETO x2, ION ANSOTEGI
XABI PRIETO

REAL SOCIEDAD 3-1 VELEZ
CARLOS VELA x2, CARLOS MARTINEZ
CARLOS VELA

REAL SOCIEDAD 2-0 RACING SANTANDER
JOSEBA ZALDUA, IMANOL AGIRRETXE
INIGO MARTINEZ

It was a very strong preseason for Real Sociedad as they won four games from four, showing their attacking threat by averaging 3 goals a game while conceding only .5 goals per game. None of the teams were of very high quality, it must be said, but Lox Txuri-Urdin showed good professionalism to go out there and win the friendly matches.

Xabi Prieto was the crowning jewel of the four games, scoring 2 braces and picking up 2 assists along the way, by and far involved in the most goals among the entire squad. Even young Iker Hernandez, touted a possible star striker for the future, managed to pick up a goal in the first game.

Despite all of the excellent football put on show at the Anoeta stadium, however, the team's preseason has been overshadowed by a startling absence from the touchline; that of newly appointed manager Neal Hasan. In his place, assistant manager Jean-Marie De Zerbi has taken the reigns.

The 28 year old American who shocked the footballing world with his appointment at Real Sociedad de Futbol as the manager has not been on the touchline for any of the four games, nor had he even been reported to be in the stands. Many fans are angered by their new coach's lack of commitment, not even showing up to friendlies, despite Champions League qualifying matches just a week away.

The question is ringing around the Anoeta and all of San Sebastian: Where is Neal Hasan?!

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Solid pre-season Neal! Can't wait for the start of the season!

Solid Pre-season!
XABI PRIETO!!!!!

NEAL WERE R U?

nice update

Great pre season, Xabi Prieto doing the business for ya?

Josh_MU: Thanks bud, can't wait for La Liga to kick off

Denzy: Prieto is a monster! Excellent captain

Jack: I don't know, where did I go?!

AaronHJFT96: Prieto always does the business, consummate professional and a great footballer!

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Great preseason Nealão, but where did you go during preseason? :o Great writing.

Excellent pre-season, excellent update!
Where are you though Neal?

He's here in Bolivia, smuggling drugs up his ass.

Walter: What a great comment number <3

pompeyblue: I seem to have misplaced myself, haven't I

Pauker: Pretty much, yeah

8:03 PM. I almost could've sworn the clock was moving at 1/6 its normal speed. My flight back to San Sebastian left at 9:30, and I couldn't miss this one. Sociedad could certainly manage a preseason without me, but if I wasn't there a week before the Champions League qualifiers, I'd lose my job.

My bags were packed next to me, just the few clothes and toiletries I'd brought for the two weeks. To be honest, I hadn't expected this to take so long.

I thought she would have been happy for me. I thought she would've loved to live in Spain, experience the new culture, perhaps get a job there. It was going to be an exciting life for both of us.

What I didn't expect were tears.

She'd gotten a job. Alexandria Hospital, in some suburb called Bolingbrook, a western suburb of Chicago, as a doctor. It was a chance of a lifetime, and she just didn't want to let it go. Not even to move to Spain with me, not even to create a new life for ourselves.

I checked the clock again. 8:05. Nobody had said a thing for five minutes.

"Nicole..."

She gazed up at me from the sofa in her living room, those deep brown eyes still welled up with tears she had yet to blink away. I felt the weight of her eyes crash down on me as I stood next to the door, shuffling awkwardly.

"Please. come with me. I can't walk away from this job, it's a dream come true, but I'd do anything to have you there with me, please ju--"

"Get out." It felt like a slap in the face.

"Nicole, please I lov--"

"Get out. I never want to see you again." She said it so calmly, but I could hear the hurt in her voice, see it in her eyes. A tear traced down her cheek.

I opened my mouth to respond, but nothing came out.

"Get back to your precious football," she spat, and now anger had found its way into her voice as well.

I turned, and walked out the door.

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Naaawh!! Neal, do not worry! You have la Espana ladies to look forward too.
Fuck Nicole and her stupid crappy job!!