I had a huge amount of success with Pereyra at Southampton, so knew he was someone to build the team around. At this point it was either he sign a new contract or we’d transfer list him, and we managed to convince him to sign a £42k p/w, 4-year deal to make him the highest payed player at the club. But after a month of hardball, his attitude changed and he no longer wanted to leave. Having asked to leave, and with only 12 months left on his contract, I feared we’d have to let him go this Summer. Securing Roberto Pereyra on a long-term deal proved to be one of the most important deals of the Summer. Jeison Murillo: having loaned CB Thomas Hertaux from Granada for 14/15, we were able to trade up for a better model, in Colombian international MurilloĪ few of the previously loaned out players were also brought back into the first-team squad Roberto Pereyra, Luis Muriel, Matej Vydra, Douglas Santos, Edenilson and Alexandre Coeff all returned and will stay at the club this season. If we can have two feeder clubs regularly playing in the top division of Spain & England respectively then it can only be good for us.Īllan: phenomenal throughout 14/15 for Udinese in the real world, and similarly important in Football Manager The situation with Granada & Watford will present some interesting challenges in this save but I intend to help keep them in the best situations possible. Both players were effectively bought by Udinese in the past and gifted to Granada so I don’t feel too bad about sucking them dry… Once this was secured I was further able to utilise the link with Granada to get Murillo in on a free-transfer. I knew as soon as I got the job that securing Allan on a long-term deal was of utmost importance. Luckily the transfer window had effectively started for me before the board takeover. This went on for two weeks, meaning I had about a month to not only get rid of ~60 players I didn’t want or need, but also to completely re-structure a scouting department and sign players who aligned with the ‘Moneyball’ philosophies. Not only did this mean we missed out on a few key targets available on a free transfer, but it also meant I couldn’t even manage the contractual situation of current players. But as I went to sell and loan the resource-sucking players, I was greeted with the message that I wasn’t allowed to as the board takeover was ongoing.
So I checked the finances, and we were now paying £640k p/w in wages. At this point I thought something must’ve been wrong, because upon trying to offer a new contract to one of our current players, the maximum value was an absolute pittance. This seemed fairly reasonable… until the loanees returned. Regardless, planning went on, and we’d been given a £360k p/w wage budget. However, the day before they were all due to return, the board announced they were considering a consortium takeover and this resulted in a temporary transfer embargo. Whilst there was lots to deal with, we were at the end of June and there was plenty of time. The Summer all began with the loan players returning. In truth, it was a lot worse and I had to complete more outgoing transfers/loans than in any transfer window ever. At the end of my introductory post on the new Udinese save, I mentioned the situation was something of a ‘clusterfuck’.
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