The 3rd season debut

I didn't expected to have such a positive start to this Premier League season. First of all, the team wasn't so familiar with the tactical instructions set by me in pre-season. 

We wouldn't be placed so high in the league if some indispensable players like Adam Johnson and Julian Schieber didn't had such great match performances!

Premier League stats for Palace players 19.09.2013

The club reputation for all Premier Division teams

Eagles - 5 stars signings

Jack Rodwell (MC) decided to sign for Crystal Palace from Everton for 10.000.000 euros. Everton had to sell some players like Rodwell and Fellaini after going trough a rough financial situation. Jack went Palace, while the Belgian opted Man.U.

The team needed another left back due to Parr's long term injury. I went for Genoa defender Luca Antonelli (DL), signing him for 7.000.000 euros. He is way better that Parr, Clyne, Moscatello or Giarletta.

Dudu from Dynamo Kyiv joined Palace for 11.000.000 euros. The main reason for the signing of the right winger was the constant injuries of Drenthe or Assaidi. Let's hope that he adjusts very quick to the British lifestyle.

Rob-Robert Zieler has joined the club for a record of 14.000.000 euros. Many people would say that the amount of money payed was far to much for a goalie and with Lewis and Lindner already at the club we must pray that I made a good decision.

Jermaine Defoe joined Crystal Palace on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. Thanks to his arrival I won't fear so much for a Julian Schieber injury! Anyway Defoe is much better that the other Eagles strikers Scannell, van Iersel or Zaha.

Eagles - Transfers out (season 2013/14)

A new season has began for Palace and i am proud to announce the newest departures from Selhurst Park.

First of all Lee Cattermole moved to Wolves on a one-year loan spell, because he simply didin't managed to convince me in his previous season at Selhurst Park. 12 league appearances, no goals/assists made, and a poor 6.71 average rating made me loan him at Molineux.

Right-back Martin Montoya left the club for 2.400.000 euros to play at St. Andrews for Birmingham City. Last season he failed to make an impact on the team for several reasons like feeling homesick or having a tough competition on his position against Owen Hargreaves, Nathaniel Clyne and especially Lamine Gassama.

Another talented player that i had to sell was former Napoli player Fabiano Santacroce. With Strandberg, Isimat-Mirin on top form last season and Cathcart and Dawson home-grown players, I transfer listed and sold Santacroce at Koln for 2.900.000 euros. He played last year in only 8 Premier League matches (6.61 average rating).

Premier League overachievement & League Cup win

Championship Promotion & FA Cup Final

Ok, here are the results of the Eagles matches until the famous Boxing Day. The most important of them were the one against our arch rivals Brighton and Millwall. Against Brighton we won 1-0 at Selhurst Park with the goal of Antonio Pedroza, while against Millwall we managed to pull off a 2-0 victory away at The Den (goals scored by Ambrose and Pedroza).

 

After the Boxing Day, began a fantastic run for the Eagles both in the npower Championship and the FA Cup. First of all, the two derby matches. 1-0 away at Brighton at the American Express Co. thanks to an unfortunate goal by Gordon Greer and a brilliant 4-2 home victory at Selhurst Park (a hattrick scored by Stefan Strandberg and Julian Schieber).

And finally here are the results from the FA Cup that led to our place in the final at Wembley.

3rd round match vs. Bolton, 2-1 at Selhurst Park;

4th round match vs. Bristol Rovers 6-0, away at the Memorial Stadium;

5th round match vs. Tottenham 1-0 thanks to a final minute penalty goal scored by Jonas Svensson;

1/4 finals vs. West Ham at the Boleyn Ground, 1-1 draw;

1/4 finals (replay) vs. West Ham at home, 4-2 win;

1/2 finals vs. Wigan at Wembley. A dramatic match that ended 2-2 after 90 minutes, with a superb win on penalties; 

So, here are the transfers made by the Eagles in our first season, in the npower Championship. In the summer transfer period, the important signings were the two players from Norway, Stefan Strandber (DC, 500.000 euros from Valerenga) and Jonas Svensson (MC, 1.300.000 euros from Rosenborg), from Bulgaria - Stefan Velev (MC, 300.000 euros from Beroe) and Georgi Terziev (DC, 250.000 euros from Chernomorets).

In form Palace managed to sign in the winter transfer period another four players who proved in the end essential for winning the promotion, Julian Schieber, James McArthur, Joe Lewis and Nicolas Isimat-Mirin.

Talking about the players that left the club this years, we have a totally different situation. The only notable transfers were the ones of Paddy McCarthy to Soton for 975.000 euros and Lomana LuaLua to Norwich (1.000.000 euros), who arrived at Palace in the summer, but had a rough 6 months being injured most of the time.

The Eagles

Welcome to Crystal Palace Football Club ! The team is based in South Northwood, their home ground is Selhurst Park 26297 all-seater, built in 1924. The club was founded in 1905 on the 10th of September.


Nicknames for the team : Eagles, Palace, Glaziers.


Crystal Palace have a number of rivalries. The most important rivalries are with Brighton, Charlton and Milwall, but let's not forget Man.U, who managed to beat the Eagles in their 1990 FA Cup Final.


We will be starting our first season in the npower Championship. Come on Palace !

My FKMB star players

Welcome to Mlada Boleslav

Fotbalovy klub Mladá Boleslav was founded in 1902. The team managed to win promotion in the First Czech Republic Division for the first time in 2004 and had to fight against relegation very hard, finishing only 14th. In 2005/06 the finished runner-up in the league and qualityed for the UEFA Champions League (their best performance).

In 2006/07 season, FK Mladá Boleslav defeated Valerenga Oslo (3–1 and 2–2), then lost against Galatasaray Istanbul (2–5 away, 1–1 home), but surprisingly defeated Olympique Marseilles in 1st round of the UEFA Cup 4–3 (1st leg: 0–1, 2nd leg 4–2). At the Group Stage matches Mladá Boleslav got just 3 points of 4 matches (Panathinaikos 0–1, Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–1, Paris St. Germain 0–0, Rapid Bucharest 1–1), therefore being eliminated. FK Mladá Boleslav qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Cup after finishing 3rd in next league again on the 4th October 2007 beating Italian side Palermo on penalties 4–2 after a nail biting 1–1 aggregate scoreline, on the verge of being eliminated with the score reading 1–0 Palermo, (with their goal in the first leg still standing) in the 2nd leg, Tomáš Sedlacek popped the winner in the 2nd leg with only seconds to spare. In the next round Mladá Boleslav defeated Swedish IF Elfsborg 3–1, but lost tightly against Villareal 1–2, AEK Athens 0–1 and Fiorentina 1–2 and didn't qualify for 3rd round.

The major sponsor of the club is Auto Skoda.

Future summer plans

Begovic (Sørensen, Nash) – Zuiverloon (Ferronetti), Alex Sandro (Boyle, Dickinson), Shawcross (Faye, Higginbotham), Huth (A.Davies, Wilkinson, Shotton, Collins, Sonko) – N’Zonzi (Diao, Kouyate), Maresca (Pekalski, Soares, Cuvelier, Arismendi), Whelan (Whitehead, Enoh, Dessena, Tainio, Wilson), Paulo Henrique (Bakkal, Brahimi, Kevin, Tuncay Sanli) – Cristaldo (Bernardo), Jones (Necid, Kapetanos, Sidibe, Moult, Walters).

To leave in the summer could take 16.810.250 euros from the wage expenditure at the club from the whole of 34.500.652 euros.