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Dover Fan's Player of the Year

-- No surprise here - the fans smartly and correctly vote our stellar 23 year old Italian central midfielder Andrea Rocca as the Player of the Year.



Dover Best Eleven for 2019-20

-- A few surprises, as usual, on our Best Eleven list:

GK - Lukasz Fabianski - 20 apps 0g 7.00 avg
DL - Renato Gaucho - 16 apps 0g 7.03 avg
DC - Luke McCullough - 34 apps 2g 6.85 avg
DC - Lukas Stetina - 25 apps 1g 6.91 avg
DR - Jozef Kuciak - 25 apps 0g 6.84 avg
ML - Liam Craig - 30 apps 2g 6.89 avg
MC - Andrea Rocca - 37 apps 6g 7.35 avg
MC - Darren Pratley - 25 apps 2g 6.92 avg
MR - Gianluca Bolis - 33 apps 6g 6.95 avg
ST - Petr Simek - 20 apps 5g 6.98 avg
ST - Gerardo Escobar - 28 apps 11g 7.15 avg

Other notables: GK Ingo Wilke 23 apps 0g 6.89; DL Bob Harris 20 apps 0g 6.82; DM Mancini 21 apps 0g 6.74; DM Simon Woodman 3 apps 0g 6.83; MC Frantisek Kroulik 27 apps 2g 6.89; ST Giorgos Gesios 25 apps 10g 6.94; ST Zoltan Bardi 29 apps 6g 6.89

Fabianski over Wilke is understandable, as his average rating was better. Petr Simek getting on there instead of Gesios is a bit of a reach, as Simek only started about 10 matches for us.

Let's take a look at our overall Best Eleven since I took over management of the franchise:

Dover Best Eleven - Overall

GK - Ingo Wilke - 167 apps 0g 7.00 avg
DL - David Ogilby - 178 apps 8g 6.98 avg
DC - Olly Schulz - 120 apps 18g 7.32 avg
DC - Oliver Nicholas - 316 apps 28g 7.14 avg
DR - Conor Morrissey - 230 apps 1g 6.98 avg
ML - Arsene Bamba - 106 apps 16g 7.20 avg
MC - Richie Ryan - 131 apps 28g 6.98 avg
MC - Andrea Rocca - 103 apps 26g 7.33 avg
MR - Abdeltareck Sakali - 176 apps 50g 7.14 avg
ST - Alexander Rattke - 125 apps 55g 7.13 avg
ST - Aaron Green - 141 apps 65g 7.18 avg

Andrea Rocca is the only new addition to the Overall Best Eleven.

Substitutes:
GK - Liam O'Brien - 219 apps 0g 6.84 avg
DL - Aziz Deen-Conteh - 122 apps 2g 6.95 avg
DC - Luke McCullough - 186 apps 16g 6.98
ML - Ismael Fofana - 206 apps 38g 6.98 avg
MC - Jon Wallis - 135 apps 13g 6.94 avg
ST - Ben Hunt - 156 apps 70g 7.12 avg
ST - Zoltan Bardi - 125 apps 39g 6.98 avg



2020-21 Barclay's Premier League Fixture List Announced

-- We will start the season off at home against Tottenham on Saturday August 15th, a team we defeated in the final game last season. The traditional Boxing Game match will take place at Man City Stadium against this year's league Champions and we'll face Man City again at home in our season finale on May 23rd.

-- We are given £40,000,000 for Barclays Premier League TV rights for the upcoming season. Lovely - this number seems a little higher than last year, as I thought we were in the £37m area in my first two years in the league. Either way, we'll happily accept the money!



Start of Season Expectations

-- Ok here we go! Our new chairman expects us to achieve a safe, mid-table position within the Premier League this season. For this, the board is offering me the following:

2020/21 TRANSFER BUDGET - £33,500,000
2020/21 WAGE BUDGET - £245,000/week

WOW - those are HUGE increases over last year, especially with our transfer budget!!! I have additional money available should my ambitions be higher, up to an incredible £53 million transfer budget and a £275,000 weekly wage budget should I aim for a Premier League title.

With a new chairman on board and one that reluctantly kept me on, I'm just going to go with their expectations and take the 33.5 million. Silently, my goal is Continental qualification but we'll see how we're doing in January.

This is fun!



Youth Intake - U18 Club

-- Nothing to see here. The best prospect is a 0.5/1.5 GK named Garry Doyle. My first preseason friendly is always a warmup match against my U18 squad and my normal M.O. is to cut anyone who isn't a 1 star potential (or above) right after that match. I'm hoping that the construction of our new youth academy, our improved youth facilities (currently under construction as well) and the hopeful development of our youth recruitment system (being planned now) will all help improve our future youth intakes.



-- Newly promoted Newcastle come after my young star MR Gianluca Bolis, offering me £8,500,000. Yikes - that would easily be the most money I've ever received in a transfer but Bolis is going absolutely nowhere. I reject the offer and issue a hands off warning as well.

-- And the bids continue to come in, this time for young MC Frantisek Kroulik from Reading for £4,800,000. I reject it again - I still have big plans for Kroulik but that said, I could see taking a larger offer for him in the future.