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After a meeting on the 27th June 2011 about last seasons performance and next seasons expectations and budget Van der Brom was seen storming out of the Vitesse offices. "It is *bleep*ing crap. I can't rebuild the squad for a title push with such a low amount of money." He was reported to have said to a granny on the bus home.

"Solskjaer is going to inherit a very strong, young squad for the next season ahead to try and sustain a high finish. Preferably an European place finish." Said Merab Jordania in a press conference.

The big question is will Solskjaer be a great boss or will he fail under big pressure?

Leicester City - Half season update

I have started a game as Leicester so I could have a little break from my Crewe game, I chose Leicester as they have a squad that needs a little work to it in midfield and a few attackers and they had the resources needed so I could succeed.

So I started off the season by making 12 signings and selling 10 players. The first 2 players to join were both on frees, with Grahem Alexander adding backup to out midfield and he will be used in extreme injury cases. We did not have a very good backup keeper either so I signed the legendary John Smith as backup to Kaspar Schmeichal. Then came Robert Snodgrass and Aidan White from Leeds and Rickie Lambert from Southampton. Snodgrass came as Leicester had no quality wingers and Lambert came as I did not like some of out backup strikers. After the signings above came Francis Zoko and Ian Harte to add depth to our team. Zoko had an impressive review from D3structor and Harte is one of my favourite non-Newcastle players so he was an automatic must buy. C.Brocchi, Marvell Wynne, Ross Barkley and Steven Quinn all came after these and I brought in another goalkeeper after that to be used in extra-extreme cases. You have not guessed it - legendary Burton Albion keeper Kevin Poole.

We had quite a lot of outgoings too, with Waghorn, Vassell and King being the players sold with the biggest reputation. Othar outgoings were Wellens as he was shit for me on Football Manager, Dyer as he was crap, Gallagher because I got a good bid for him, Kennedy as I didn't like him, Pantsil as he was pants, Howard as he was old, and Moussa because he was useless. I loaned out Schlupp to Doncaster Rovers aswell. These signings helped me sign a few current players as I could not afford them with my starting budget.

However after 23 games we are not doing as well as I had wanted, as we were 3rd, 5 points off second place Birmingham and 8 off current leaders West Ham, we didn't have any spectacular wins really, as our best was probably a 3-0 win over Cardiff who are an easy team to beat, the only other 2 games we won by more then 1 goal were both in August, Ipswich and Burnley finished 3-1 and 2-0 to me. However we lost 3-0 to Coventry, 3-1 to Brum and John Carew scored in the last minute so I lost to West Ham 1-0. We have 42 points and +8 goal difference.

Team - GD - Pts

West Ham +27 50
Birmingham +21 47
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Me +8 42
Leeds +12 41
Watford +14 38
Southampton +9 38
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Hull +5 38
Bristol City +4 38
Derby +12 37
Portsmouth +10 36
Forest +9 36

It is a very close table as you can see with only 2 points separating 5th from 11th, I hate to say it, but if we continue like my last 2 months have gone, we will fall out of the top half even.