My Journey in Football Management (from Unemployed)

2013-05-07 11:39#98416 IamonlyoneGuy : Good luck with this. Kudos looks really good for a lower league player.

Cheers pal, I hope he does come good.

2013-05-07 17:36#98509 Toon : Pele? Wow I thought he was retired. An absolute Santos legend!

Oh wait.

He's just as good..if not better

Well I’m not going to lie, this transfer window was a missive struggle. I had no idea who to sign, I had never heard of any of the players and I had a measly £500 to spend on wages.

Out of the ten players I signed only three of them made me think 'wow, these lads have real quality and could really add to my squad.’ The others I'm afraid are here to make up the numbers of my paper think squad and to add some much needed depth.

The three players mentioned above are:



Both Calum Butcher and Luke Williams left us on a free transfer this window, to Wrexham and Dagenham & Redbridge respectively. I'm not going to lie, I'm gutted they left us because they would have easily slotted into my first team, but a club in our position can't afford to keep a hold of our top players and we needed to lose some money from the wage budget, and to be fair to the lads, they are both now playing regular football at higher levels, so I suppose everybody is happy in the end.

Don't get too many people, the more people you sign the more it upsets the squad's harmony.

2013-05-07 20:29#98600 Toon : Don't get too many people, the more people you sign the more it upsets the squad's harmony.

Cheers for the advice Toon. My squad at the moment has 23 players in it, which is probably a few more than i'd like.

At the time of taking over Hayes & Yeading they had already played two of their friendlies - a fantastic 2-1 victory over League 1 Brentford and a 1-0 victory over minnows Aveley.

My first game in charge was against Yeovil, and although we dominated the majority of the game in the end we lost 1-2. The final pre-season game so us come up against Slough, and it gave me the chance to try new signing Vincent Pericard, who scored two of our three goals.

That's pre-season done and dusted, next up is my league debut, and I couldn't be more nervous, our first game sees us visit one of the promotion favourites Weston-super-Mare.

Good results. Yeovil was always going to be a big challenge.

2013-05-08 07:22#98690 Toon : Good results. Yeovil was always going to be a big challenge.

It was a tricky game but in the end their class in front of goal made the difference, we waste to many easy chances, hope it's just pre-season tho and the players shaking off their summer holidays.

Well my first month in football management, and it was in truth pretty terrible. In our two away games we looked hopeless and probably should have beaten by a much higher margin. Our two home games we showed more positive signs and we earned a well-fought draw against promotion favourites Boreham Wood. I was slightly disappointed not to come away with three points against Billericay, they where very poor and there for the taking but we failed to capitalize on our chances.

The only real positive to come out of August was young Kudos Oyenuga, he’s started the season in decent form and he’s the only reason why we have any points at all. If the team can pick up their performance I’m sure we can get ourselves out of this early mess. We just need that one win to get us going and hopefully it will come early next month.

Not the best results mate, but you can improve.

2013-05-08 19:31#98860 Toon : Not the best results mate, but you can improve.

I hope we can or my dream of being a successful football manager will turn into a nightmare!

2013-05-08 20:43#98891 BFC_Michael :

2013-05-08 19:31#98860 Toon : Not the best results mate, but you can improve.

I hope we can or my dream of being a successful football manager will turn into a nightmare!

It's not your fault it;s the crappy squad.

2013-05-08 21:41#98916 Toon :

2013-05-08 20:43#98891 BFC_Michael :

2013-05-08 19:31#98860 Toon : Not the best results mate, but you can improve.

I hope we can or my dream of being a successful football manager will turn into a nightmare!

It's not your fault it;s the crappy squad.

Very true, but the manager is always the first to go when the team is doing bad.

Not the start you would be hoping for but it takes time for the players to settle and get used to the tactics etc...i have faith you'll turn this around

2013-05-09 05:53#99000 k1rups : Not the start you would be hoping for but it takes time for the players to settle and get used to the tactics etc...i have faith you'll turn this around

Cheers pal, I must admit I'm not liking Hayes & Yeading much. If another club came in for me I would really have to consider, but I suppose I'd have to do well with Hayes & Yeading first to get other clubs to notice me!