World Cup Mania: The US' Road to Brazil 2014 (and beyond)

AS Monaco
May 2015

AS Saint-Etienne 0 - 0 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 0 - 1 Olympique Lyonnais

AS Nancy-Lorraine 3 - 2 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 0 - 2 Evian TG FC

Other News

Standings

Sometimes I really really HATE football. This was THAT month. The month from hell. Nothing clicked right. Everyone wanted to play like little shits, missing easy goals, letting easy goals in, and getting sent off.

Ouch.

Great month for you...

United States
Gold Cup Group Stage

United States 5 - 1 Suriname

United States 2 - 1 Guatemala

United States 2 - 0 Canada

Easy qualification for the knockout round. The only team we'll have to worry about is Mexico, but we'll have to stay focused if we want to repeat as Gold Cup champions.

United States
Gold Cup Knockout

Quarterfinal: United States 3 - 0 Curacao

Semifinal: United States 3 (4 penalties) - 3 (3 penalties) Costa Rica

Final: United States 2 - 3 Honduras

What a real disappointment, we were really unlucky to lose to Honduras. We should have won the Gold Cup, but we didn't.

I have a habit of not renewing anyone who has less than 3* potential.

In

Free:





Paid:
1.7 million euros:

Out

3 million euros:

good signings there mate but what happened to Monaco's riches? Unlucky against Honduras as well.

Feyenoord 2 - 4 AS Monaco

Alaves 0 - 4 AS Monaco

Venezia 0 - 4 AS Monaco

In

1.6 million euros:

4.4 million euros:

5.75 million euros:

On loan from Liverpool until the end of the season:

4.9 million euros:

600,000 euros:

Out

- Martin Sourzac to Lazlo for 575,000 euros
- Marco de Marco to Cittadella for 0 euros and 50% of next sale
- Sebastien Amoros on loan to Aries-Avignon until the end of the season
- Terence Makongo to FC Lorient for 400,000 euros
- Jeremy Labor to Hull for 1,800,000 euros
- Dominique Pandor to RC Lens for 170,000 euros
- Jakob Poulsen to Villarreal for 1,500,000 euros
- Dennis Appiah to Terek for 2,500,000 euros
- Miguel Samudio to Asteras Tripolis for 825,000 euros. Monaco will pay him 10,500 euros a week until June 2016.
- Taye Taiwo to OM for 6 million euros.
- Florian Pinteaux to Genk for 2.7 million euros

The special one: The chairman keeps injecting lots of cash into the club, and I have a 1.8 million euros per week wage budget, but the board is being kind of stingy with the transfer budget, it's a bit less than 20 million eurs.

United States
Friendlies

Turkey 1 - 2 United States

This was a pretty good performance, Guy Dunseth made an incredible goal to win it for us. Even though he is so young, he is ready for an international spot and I want to get him ready for the next World Cup.

AJ Auxerre 1 - 0 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 1 - 0 AS Saint-Etienne

OGC Nice 0 - 3 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 6 - 3 AS Nancy-Lorraine

August 31: Mehdi Beneddine's contract with AS Monaco mutually terminated.

United States
Friendlies

Cyprus 0 - 4 United States

Pretty much just a fitness test, I knew they would win, it was just a matter of how much. Four goals is a pretty decent margin, and we didn't let them score, so I'm happy.

Toulouse FC 1 - 3 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 3 - 0 FC Lorient

Coupe de Ligue Third Round
AS Saint-Etienne 1 - 0 AS Monaco

AS Monaco 3 - 1 OM

FC Sochaux-Montbe 0 - 1 AS Monaco

September 12: Marcelo Estigarribia suffered a torn calf muscle against Toulouse FC and is out 4 months
September 26: Almamy Toure suffered a torn groin against OM and will be out 7-8 weeks
September 29: Atletico Madrid will sell Mario Suarez to AS Monaco for 9 million euros. The transfer will occur on January 1.

Other than the Coupe de Ligue, we had a perfect month. Rhayner is not as good of a player as I had hoped, but I can still make use of his pace coming off the bench, I will just have to make sure to keep him as a winger since he is terrible as the lone striker. Toure and Estigarribia's injuries hurt us and will test our depth.

United States
Friendlies

Luxembourg 0 - 2 United States

I hate it when I give the wrong team-talk, I think it prevented us from winning by more. However, going into someone else's home, winning by at least two goals, and being in firm control of a game is never a bad thing. Like my own side, sides like Cyprus and Luxembourg are trying to prove themselves against tougher competition.