Swansea City: Continuing the rise!

I have chosen to start with a story with Swansea, they have a decent squad and budget, so i will be looking to take them into Europe, please leave feedback with ideas for who i could sign or things i could improve.

I'll be reading, but you need to fix the picture

2013-03-24 16:56#87018 LJO200 : I'll be reading, but you need to fix the picture

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YAY! The Picture worked! Will be following (I know I said that already but I really am excited by the prospect of a Swansea story).

Good luck James will be following!

Georgie Thompson- "Breaking news report from Swansea as we here at the sky sports news studios can reveal to you all that Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup has left the club by mutual consent with immediate effect due to not being able to settle in Wales and so he has returned to his native Denmark."


Jim White- "Regarding the vacant Swansea City post, we can now reveal the latest odds for who the latest manager could be." "Stoke City's welsh manager Tony Pulis is the odds on favourite at 5/1, where as Wigan's Roberto Martinez is 10/1 and Nigel Adkins is 12/ and unknown rookie James Heyhoe is somewhat a surprise contender at 40/1 as chairman Huw Jenkins takes his time to appoint a new manager at the Liberty Stadium".

Georgie Thompson- "Swansea City have finally completed their hunt to appoint a replacement for Brendan Rodgers. The welsh side have appointed 25 year old manager James Heyhoe on a 1 year deal worth around £22,500 a week where he has been asked to continue the trend of playing possession football. We now go live to a press conference at the Liberty Stadium where Heyhoe is going to experience his first task at handling the media in management." H- Heyhoe, J- Journalist.


J- "Is managing Swansea your dream job?"
H- "I'm delighted to be hired, it is a dream come true."
J- "How will you be involved day to day?"
H- "I'd like to be involved as much as time allows me."
J- "What are your plans for your Swansea reign?"
H- "My target is to at least qualify for Europe."
J- "What about player and staff arrivals?"
H- "I will be looking into a few signings and will revamp the backroom staff setup."

Nice couple of updates there. Keep this up James

2013-03-24 18:43#87030 Blue : Nice couple of updates there. Keep this up James

Thanks, doing a few new things and transfer buisness then i will do another update

My target for Europe will not be done just with players, so i have completely overhauled the
backroom set-up, I've posted a screenshot below of the changes as i begin the revolution.


I also begin to plan for the future, so I've spoke to the board and managed to get them to agree to a few things. Firstly, i managed to get them to upgrade the youth and training facilities, increase the transfer revenue percentage to 95% and to buy the stadium to improve it in the future.

Swansea City have completed the sail of four players today. Darnell Situ to Barnsley for £100k, Alan Tate to Wigan for £1.1m, Kemy Agustien to QPR for £3.1m and Wayne Routledge to Wolves for £4.4m.

Signing

Swansea City have signed 21 year old centre back Danny Batth from wolves for a fee of £2.5m. Manager James Heyhoe said- "Danny will provide us with cover and also battle for the first team, he's a lad with exceptional talent and i believe he can be a key player for us in the first team as well as get his chance with the England team."

More new faces!


Thomas Drage, a 20 year old attacking midfielder who i picked up for £1.2m from Tromso.

Adam Matthews, a 20 year old right back who joins from Celtic for £3.2m.

Leo, a 19 year old striker who i signed from Rayo buy paying his £7m release clause.

Pre-Season Results

ADO Den Haag 3-2 Swansea (Moore, Gower)

Braunschweig 0-0 Swansea

Newport 1-3 Swansea (De Guzman, Hernandez, Leo)

Swansea 2-1 Lille (Leo x2)

Port Talbot 0-7 Swansea (Davies, Chico, Michu, Britton, Moore x3)

We had a great pre-season so now our focuses will be on the opening premier league game against Manchester United.

August Results

Manchester United 3-0 Swansea
Despite losing 3-0, we did well in the match because made sure there were long periods of time between their goals and managing to hold them off well.

Swansea 1-0 Liverpool (Batth)
The scoreline speaks for itself, it was a match that was never going to be easy, so for Danny Batth to mark his 2nd appearance with a winning goal, i was ecstatic with how we were performing in games.

Swansea 3-0 Scunthorpe (Dyer x2, Sung-Yeung)
Easy match where it was going to be a win from the start, we were being pressured early on though but battled through to the next round.

Gary Monk was also sold for £1.1m, which put my transfers very low in the board confidence. But £1.1m for a 33 year old CB was a good deal in my eyes, and i now have £13.6m to spend going into deadline day.