Leeds United Part 7 - January, February and the start of March

Ever since the start of the new year we've looked a completly new team, free scoring and the defence has been a lot stronger (25 Goals and 13 Conceeded in 11 games) losing only one league game, but I was very dissapointed with the recent result against Rochdale in the F.A Cup 3rd Round but I have been overjoyed with the leagues results.

I know this is off-topic but I have to mention this fantastic result for Huddersfield at Old Trafford :-

My January signings are proving they are quality with Adam Hammill with 6 games 2 goals 4 assists with a average rating of 7.37 and Leigh Griffiths with 8 games 5 goals and 1 assist with a average rating of 7.11 :-

Leeds United - Part 6 - The Final Transfer Window

After lacking creativity from the left wing despite signing Van Der Meyde (with his stats in downfall)I decided to look through the transfer centre for any possible talents with Gradel, Ross Mccormack and Sanchez Watt not providing anything.

Then transfer listed Adam Hammill for Wolves was avaliable for £1.4M with quality stats and only at the age of 22, so i snapped him up despite interest from Burnley and Leicster.

In the central midfielder position Jonny Howson was dissapointing so on a loan move I signed the Manchester City wonderkid Tom Cairney until the end of the season.

In addition to these buys I believe I was lacking a proven goalscorer so for £1.4M I signed Leigh Griffiths with a fantastic finishing attribute and other good stats.

At the end of both transfer windows all the transfers are :-

Leeds United - Part 5 - October to January

End of October, a dissapointing defeat against Nottingham Forest followed by a good run and defence with a nice amount of goals,halfway through December a huge dissapointing defeat against 14th placed Ipswich but a fantastic recovery for the derby against Barnsley.

Having just approached over half the games in the season my current top scorer is Ross Mccormack with 7 goals in 20 games, my best player is Andy O'Brien with a average rating in the league with 7.24

As 25 games have been played in the season so far the league is as :-

As well as this the chairman Ken Baites has injected £2.5M into the club (suprisingly)

Leeds United - Part 4 - Month 2&3

In my opinion it's was a excellent September winning the first lot of games but then a disappointing result against Norwich knocked the teams morale a bit, a fantastic result against the league leaders Leicester City. From this I can tell that my defence isn't the best but a very good attack having scored 29 and joint top scorers in the league. Despite conceding a lot of goals my defence is better than my other positions according to my assistant manager :-

The best player in September for me was Ross Mccormack scoring 6 goals in 5 games with 1 assist.

As of the 24th October 2010 the league stands as this :-

Leeds United - Part 3 - First Month

Very disappointing first month, 12th in the league 11 goals scored 7 conceded. Yaya Sanogo has been the best player with 3 goals and a assist in 5 games (one goal also been disallowed in the goalless draw with Scunthorpe)

didn't win one of the first 3 derby matches (Barnsley, Sheffield, Scunthorpe) but a excellent result against Burnley and a strong performance against a Derby team who are currently 2nd

Leeds United - Part 2

Buying The Players.

I had a quick casual browse of the transfer market, in my opinion this kid is a gem and for only 275k he's called Leandro Grimi :-

Since I don't have so much money I've been looking at loan players these include - Yaya Sanogo (CF) and Tamir Cohen (CM) - Sanogo who has a high finishing attribute and is very young while Tamir Cohen of Bolton has good strength work rate and passing.

Personally I think i'm lacking a good player at my left wing (Max Gradel is awful on this) so I looked at the free transfers and found quite a good player who can fill this position for me :-

The Start Of Something Special - Leeds United Career - EARLY RELEASE!

Selling The Players.

In my own opinion I believe that Leeds United have a very good squad, a creative midfielder in Robert Snodgrass (who i believe is good enough for a premier league team), a goalscorer centre back in Andy O'Brien, and a clinical finisher in Luciano Becchio, these are the players I should be holding onto unless a huge offer 6m+ is bidded. The squad seems good enough for a top 10 finish but some players are worth the money due to being not in my plans, but I will need to sell players as my budget is very poor in my opinion :-

With no money to spend I will have to sell some players, first of all i've offered Billy Paynter who in my opinion isn't good enough for the Leeds squad :-

I have also transfer listed some other members of the squad which I believe are not good enough.

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A list of a some of the wonderkids in football manager 2011

Most of the players can play in multiple positions. Especially, many midfielders are equally adept at playing in L-R and ST.

Sorted by Positions:

Goalkeepers

Sergio Arias
Oier Olazabal
Costil Benoit
Antonio Adan
Dean Bouzanis
Oscar Ustari
Miguel Fraga
Jose Rafael Alamo
Felipe (Santos)
Asmir Begovic
Preston Edwards
Adrian Murcia
Joao Carlos (Alt. Para.)
Anthony Scribe
Jukka Lehtovaara
Joris Delle
Alfonso Blanco
Cassio (PSV)
David De Gea
Marcelo Grohe
Andrea Consigli
Eros Corradini
Olexandr Rybka
Lloris Hugo


Defenders: SW-R-L-C

Leo Schwechlen
Arturo Vidal
Steven Thicot
Oded Gavish
Yuval Fogelman
Patricio Araujo
Ezequiel Garay

Mateo Musacchio
Christian Sanchez
Victor Diaz
Michael Mancienne
Matthieu Saunier
Frederic Duplus
Nedum Onuoha
Loic Abenzoar
Garry Bocaly
Dor Malul
Eduardo Ratinho
Antonio Barragan
Jose San Roman
Armand Traore
Leyrielton (Goias)
Marvin Angulo
Micah Richards
Lorenzo De Silvestri
Marco Andreolli

Emiliano Insua
Matias Cahias
Mamadou Sakho
Stefan Radu
Maximilliano Oliva
Omar Esparza
Fabio (Flumiense)
Andres Guardado
Domenico Criscito
Marcelo (Real)

Breno (Sao Paulo)
Obama (Murcia)
Krystian Pearce
Jack Hobbs
Sidnei (Internacional)
Dorian Dervite
Marco Davide Faraoni
Hector Moreno
Rafael Forster
Craig Cathcart
Jonathan Evans
Aurelien Teaudors
Alessandro Tula
David Rochela
Fabiano Santacroce
Karim El-Mourabet
David (Palmeras)
Serdar Tasci
Johan Djouru
Pichu Atienza
Yegor Filipenko
Cristian Zapata
David Luiz
Gerard Pique


Defensive Midfielder:

Pierre Ducasse
Sunny
Denilson
Sami Khedira
Javi Garcia (Osasuna)
Ever Banega
Distel Zola
Roberto (Alt. Para)
Omar Benzerga
John Obi Mikel
Marc Crosas
Fabrice Muamba
Francesco Bolzoni
Ignacio Camacho
Bruno Formigoni
Bocundji Ca
Lucas (Liverpool)
Arouca (Flumiense)
Marek Hamsik
Daniele Dessena
Blaise Maituidi
Raul Garcia (At. Madrid)


Midfielder Centre

Edgar Andrade
Thiago
Adrien (Sporting CP)
Michael Woods
Michael Johnson
Eric Bicfalvi
Francesc Fabregas
Zdravko Kuzmanovic
Javi Martinez (Atl. Bilbao)


Attacking Midfielder: R-L-C

Lionel Messi
Aaron Lennon
Jeremy Menez
Guy Asulin
Maximiliano Moralez (FC Moscow)
Turan Arda
Giles Barnes
Georginio Wijnaldum
Sotiris Ninis
Fabrice N'guessi
Simone Esposito
Serge Gakpe
Neri Cardozo
Vitor Merchan
Iriome
Cesar Villaluz
Anton Putilo
Reimond Manco
Nicolas Millian
Theo Walcott
Celsinho
Ryan Babel
Yessu Cabrera
Juan Pablo Pino
Henri Saivet
Alex (Vasco)
Gabriel Obertan
Danny Welbeck
Takayuki Moritomo
Gabriel Torje
Patrik Lomski
Davide Di Gennaro
Jonathan de Guzman
Yoann Gourcuff
Renato Augusto (Flamengo)
Issiar Dia
Gonzalo Higuain

Hatem Ben Arfa
Freddy Adu
Helder Barbosa
Juan Manuel Mata
Sebastian Leto
Giovanni Dos Santos
Francisco Merida
Angel Di Maria
Sergio Mota
Iago
Damian Escudero
David Moreno
Lucas Trecarichi
Brian Sarmiento
Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim)
Sebastian Giovinco
Kevin Monnet-Paquet
Scott Sinclair
Mauricio (Flumiense)
Aquino (Murcia)
Diego Capel
Ismael Aissati
Dimitri Payet

Samir Nasri
Giuseppe Rossi
Sergio Aguero
Max Noble
Yoel Goldstein
Lulinha
Alejandro Gomez
Marko Marin
Samuel (Rayo)
Cristian Portilla
Willian (Shakhtar)
Maor Bozaglo
Pablo Platti
Adel Taarabt
Diego Buonanotte
Miralem Pjasnic
Anton Sosnin
Anderson (Man)
Kevin-Price Boateng
Toni Kroos
Rafinha (Cruzeiro)
Ivan Rakitic
Carlos Saez
Fernando Forestieri
Jose Baxter
Damien Le Tallec
Kerlon
Welliton (Moscow)
Lauri Dalla Valle
Eden Hazard
Aaron
Alberto Bueno
Guilherme
Carlos Vela
Choco (Alt. Para.)
Ramon (CSKA Moscow)
Joao Moutinho


Forward/Striker:

Cristian Nazarith
Parlak Ilhan
Cesar Lindado
Jonathan Cristaldo
Oscar Trejo
Edu Valle
Alexandre Pato
Bogdan Stancu
Alexandr Prudnikov
Jozy Altidore
Bojan
Nicklas Bendtner
Bruno Mezenga
Thiago (Sao Paulo)
Emilio Nsue
Alan Gardec
Karadeniz Batuhan
Toto Tamuz
Alan (Guarani)
Andy Carroll
Marco Ruben
Sultan Cem
Andrea Russotto
Omar Andrade
Adrian (Deport.)
Vincent Acapandie
Tevfik Kose
Nathan Delfouneso
Ramon Anselmo
Charles-Andre Doudin
Ever Guzman
Ben Sahar
Manuel Fischer
Mauro Zarate
Genero Zeefuik
Karim Benzema
Eduson Cavani
Mika Aaritalo
Mario Balotelli
Robert Acquafresca
Yaya Sanogo
Fabio Ceravolo

Any other suggestions? Feel free to post below

My Leeds United Career

My Leeds United career will begin on the 05/08/2011 and I will keep up-to-date on my career including transfers, fixtures, games, player development and more, I will keep up-to-date with feedback and will be willing to listen to all ideas, Thanks - Kieran.