I also forgot to post the league table... I'll do it now.

I am considering a SOMS, just with straight forward results etc. I might do it a couple of seasons in though, when a few of my youngsters are coming through.

Being the club I support, I thought Arsenal should be the first team manager on this year's version of the game. I have only today completed my first season on the game. I set myself a target of Title Challenge.

Transfers

Firstly, the outs. At the beginning of the season, I had more than enough funds to purchase any players that I needed, so I decided to deal mainly in the youth. I sent out the more promising youngsters on loan for some valuable experience, but sold some of the less promising ones. Later on in the January transfer window, I decided to sell Tomas Rosicky as I was already spoilt for choice in midfield, City were interested and I realised that he was on a par with a lot of my current players and was much older than them all. I felt that the £12m I got for him was a very fair price tag.

Now the ins. I realised that in order to challenge for the title as was my expectation, then I would have to strengthen many areas of my team. Firstly, I thought Rui Fonte was a good prospect and so decided to finalise his loan deal as agreed in the terms of the loan. I then decided that bar Fabregas, none of my midfielders were ready to be in my first team yet, so I signed Miguel Veloso and Joao Moutinho for identical deals of £5m up front and £6m in monthly instalments over the course of 12 months. Also, being fairly unimpressed by Mannone and deeming Almunia too old, I decided to bring in Asenjo and I immediately bled him into the first team. Next I decided that I would need some capable wingers for my tactic, so I decided to bring in Zoran Tosic and Mario Santana, Tosic for £7m and Santana for £5m. These two, however, did not feature as much for me as I had originally planned, due to a change of tactics. I then signed Renato Santos and William Carvalho for a combined total of £100k with the idea of selling them for a large profit a couple of years into the future. Finally, I signed Wagner and Santon, both for the future. Wagner is an impressive regen with a 5 star potential according to my scouts and coaches.

Premier League

Overall, I was very pleased with my performance in the league, especially as I only suffered one defeat. However, I threw away far too many leads for my liking, but was only saved some embarrassment towards the end of the season by Chelsea losing to West Brom and Portsmouth in quick succession, allowing me to break away and Manchester United to catch up and eventually overtake them. The only defeat of the season came away to Newcastle as I beat Chelsea and Liverpool home and away, while drawing at Old Trafford and beating them 3-1 at The Emirates. We had a very strong and stable defence, but a lot of the time my strikers simply refused to get going.

League Cup

The League Cup was my first silverware as Arsenal manager. I enjoyed a very good cup run and knocked out Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on penalties in my first fixture. Things only got easier from there as I knocked out Tottenham, West Brom and Everton in succession, before finally beating Manchester City in the final.

F.A. Cup

I had a much easier cup run in this competition as I did in the League Cup. I started off in the 3rd Round with a 2-0 victory at Aldershot, before progressing to face Leicester away, which I again won by 2 goals to 0. I was again away to West brom in the 5th Round and I again prevailed, and again by winning 2-0. Arguably my toughest tie of the tournament was at home to Chelsea. I won this match, by that scoreline again – 2-0. I finally went out in the Semi-Finals against Portsmouth, who I seemed to find very difficult to beat this season. I crashed out 2-1 and I was understandably disappointed as I was looking forward to facing City in another final.

Champion's League

My pride and joy of the season, European glory. The Qualification round was fairly straightforward against Dinamo Kiev. I achieved a 4-0 victory at home, but lost 2-1 away; meaning I went through 5-2 on aggregate. I started off the competition proper with a group I was always going to get past, it merely depended on whether I cam first or second. The group consisted of Juventus, Anderlecht and PSV. I came top of my group with 6 victories, conceding only one goal in the process. I beat Juventus twice 2-0, Anderlecht 1-0 and 2-0, and PSV 3-1 and 3-0.

I was drawn against Villareal in the Round of 16. I won 4-2 in Spain, before drawing 1-1 in England. I was drawn against Inter Milan in the Quarter Finals and I felt I was extremely lucky to have progressed here. I drew 0-0 in Milan and took a 2-0 lead at the Emirates thanks to a brace from Nicklas Bendtner. They got one back through Mancini and fortunately for me they failed to capitalise further on a poor performance from Asenjo, who scored a measly rating of 4.9 in this fixture. The Semi-Finals were incredibly exciting in my opinion. Drawn away in the first leg against Real Madrid, I knew I couldn't lose the first leg if I wanted to reach the final. Luckily for me, a brace from Eduardo earned me a 2-2 draw. I was incredibly apprehensive going into the second leg, but I managed to secure a 2-1 win, Eduardo and van Persie with the goals.

I was drawn against Manchester United in the Final as they looked to win the competition two years running. I stopped them from achieving this great feat though a 63rd minute goal from Robin van Persie. What made this result sweeter was that I had been on a poor run of form before this match, drawing at Hull and Portsmouth and narrowly beating West Ham.

Key Players

Bakary Sagna

Games: 58 ~ Goals: 2 ~ Assists: 4 ~ MotM: 4 ~ Av. Rating: 7.35

Gael Clichy

Games: 57 ~ Goals: 1 ~ Assists: 7 ~ MotM: 6 ~ Av. Rating: 7.25

Kolo Toure

Games: 58 ~ Goals: 2 ~ Assists: 2 ~ MotM: 2 ~ Av. Rating: 7.22

Next Season

Next season I aim to at least retain all the trophies which I have won, ideally earning those three in addition to the F.A. Cup, Community Shield, EURO Super Cup and World Club Championships. It will be difficult, but with the right signings, I believe I can do it.

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I played a 4-3-3 formation. Asenjo in goal, Sagna, Clichy, Toure and Gallas at the back, Veloso as a DM, Fabregas and Moutinho in the middle of the park. I had Adebayor, van persie and Eduardo as my strike trio, but for some reaosn they all played really poorly. Bendtner was actually my top scorer of the season with 17 goals

I orginally intended to have that as a home tactic and an away tactic identical, but having one striker and two wingers, but I had some rather poor results with that tactic and so permanently had the above tactic.

And congrats on winning the league

quote Tweety Pie

Who scored the goals then?

Poor results when you only had one defeat and ten draws? High standards or what? =P

Most of the draws came at the beginning of the season when I was trying out the away tactic with the wide men when I got most of the draws and then I had a fair few towards the end of the season as well.

As for the goals:

• Bendtner ~ 17
• Adebayor ~ 17
• van Persie ~ 14
• Vela ~ 9
• Walcott ~ 8
• Veloso ~ 8
• Eduardo ~ 8
• Fabregas ~ 6
• Moutinho ~ 5
• Nasri ~3
• Sagna ~ 2
• Toure ~ 2

Ramsey, Denilson, Song, Tosic, Santana, Djourou, Clichy, Gallas, Silvestre and Diaby all got one.

News has broke that FC Bayern Munchen head coach has resigned due to health issues. German legend Kilnsmann who racked up 108 caps netting 47 goals in the process was rushed to hospital in the early hours of the morning. It is rumoured he took a sudden heart attack but he is in a stable condition. His spokesman had this to say "Jurgen felt he had to resign because he felt he had to spend more time with his family as life can be gone in a flash. He wishes the future coach of Bayern all the best ". Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is said to be on the hunt for a new manager straight away

The favorites for the job according to Bet 365 are :

Avram Grant 5/1
Frank Rikaard 7/2
Giovane Elber 7/2
Fabio Capello 9/1
Bernd Schuster 11/2
Zinedine Zidane 20/1
Roy Keane 25/1
Gordon Strachan 40/1

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What do you guys think of this for the start to an SOMS ?

Nice write up Lone Warrior, I enjoyed reading that. I actually hadn't heard of Aris FC before so I guess that makes your top 3 achievement even better. How did Rene Mihelic perform for you? I remember having him on 08 a few times and he played quite well, although was fairly inconsistent.