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French/Polish, signed for £1.6m. I was expecting him to be incredible coming in off the right hand side as an inside forward but he was a bit crap until near the end of the season.
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Our other need near the top was an AMC, £2.6m felt like a good deal for him but he disappears a lot in matches it seems.
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We needed a backup keeper, £200k was decent business.
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Free transfer, he was my 4th or 5th choice RB/LB but in the Summer it seemed that almost everyone would reject us to stay at their club or choose to move to another bidder.
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£575k. Maybe a touch too much for him but I was struggling to bring in players. He's a big boy and I thought that would help at CB.
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Spent last year on loan at us as a backup option and he came in for just £120k to do the same.
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£450k to be our starting CB, physicals aren't amazing but he's decent on the ball.
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£750k. When he came in I was excited, we had finally found someone of quality who chose to come to us (quite a few were in for him) but he was a bit of a letdown. Hopefully he kicks on next season.
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I was starting to get a bit desperate. There wasn't a great deal of money left and by this time in August we had 11 players in the first team so I started signing free players who could be registered as backups.
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This guy was signed in between the crap though, he's a fairly decent CDM and was a key player. Really happy with him.
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Crap backup.
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Crap backup who actually has some potential. I think the other crap backups will likely be sold for peanuts/their contracts expire but he could at least sell for something if he comes good.
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£1m which was pretty much the last of my cash. He provided backup at AML and AMC, I think he could be really good for us.
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Crap cheap backup.
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Backup.
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Now we get into the real quality. In January my scouts found this guy (and his friend below at Escorpiones in Costa Rica) and he was available for just £30k. I was quite a bit over my wage budget and despite having cash to spend my board wouldn't increase the wages or let me put money into the budget. As such I started loaning out some of the crap backups and I sold Elorza This guy came in with a huge value and it took him a couple of games to settle but he ended the season as our top scorer. When I got budgets for next season I gave him a new contract which upped his release clause from £16.25m to £80m.
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His mate who cost just £59k. A lot more raw than Sanchez but he's got bags of potential.
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Out of money and wages but I was able to convince the board to buy this guy for me. Think he could be really good for us.