Cardiff City - The Bluebirds

[adamt958]

CARDIFF CITY FC - THE BLUEBIRDS

As stated within my Copenhagen thread, I run two saves simultaneously usually, because I tend to get bored of one after A while & can swap between the two as I go along.

 

I chose Cardiff because they are my side, I've been a season ticket holder for a 7 years now, plus, we are an interesting prospect. 

 

1. CAPITAL CITY OF WALES

2. POTENTIAL FOR A MASSIVE FAN BASE (only local sides in wales are Swansea & Newport (& Merthyr, but they are well down the pyramid))

3. DECENT SIZED STADIUM - 33,000 w/ Expansion options in place, hosted the European Super Cup between Real Madrid & Sevilla in 2014

4. BILLIONAIRE OWNER (completely nuts and has been tight on the purse strings since our relegation) 

A Deserted fan base, split by the rebrand with the club backtracking and trying desperately to cover over the cracks, but with attendances down can I finally be the one to bring the fans and sustained Premier League football back to Wales's capital city. 

well, lets begin this then. 

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Some transfer updates, With only 1.2m to spend originally, I decided that I would try and sell some players that don't fit in to my tactics to build funds to buy players for the now, & use the original 1.2m on youngsters for the future. 

 

I raided Real Madrid & Barcelona's 'B' teams and came out with these gems, I only think I paid more than 150k up front for one of them, most of them are 80k or 100k plus add ons up to about 250/500k.

 

 

*note the £1.8m available here, raised from the 4.5m plus add ons sale of Anthony Pilkington to Sunderland

 

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5 competitive games into the season, joint top but Derby have a game in hand on me, we did get our first welsh derby of the season against Newport much earlier than anticipated , beating them 3-1 with one of my on loan players scoring for them. 

 

The Fulham game we lost 1-0 and were down to ten men since the 22nd minute, very frustrating. 

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We won't keep this up, I keep telling myself, but we have won six on the bounce since being thumped 5-2 by Norwich City and are comfortably clear at the top of the championship. We do have our hardest run of games coming up as well though. 

 

Had A striker issue and ended up signing Libor Kozak on loan from Aston Villa, he has been a revelation and has scored 7 in 7 for me. Exciting times but still early days.