-- Constantino is named the Ipswich fans Player of the Year this year.
Ipswich Best Eleven
Couple surprises here imo.
GK: Murphy
D: Kirkland/Bruce/Gudmundsson/Berthet
DMC: Paulo
MC: Bennett/Donnelly
AMC: Mills
ST: Khan/Constantino
I thought Gordon and Brown should have been on the team over Mills and Gudmundsson.
Ipswich All Time Best Eleven
GK: Brian Murphy (373 apps/6.80 rating)
DL: Danny Mathijssen (121 apps/2 goals/6.59 rating)
DC: Steven Caldwell (120 apps/1 goal/7.03 rating)
DC: Troy Brown (240 apps/2 goals/6.79 rating)
DR: David Wright (166 apps/2 goals/7.11 rating)
ML: Mario Licka (115 apps/8 goals/7.23 rating)
MC: Gordon Donnelly (170 apps/28 goals/6.89 rating)
MC: Owen Garvan (263 apps/18 goals/6.82 rating)
MR: Sylvain Berthet (136 apps/3 goals/6.95 rating)
ST: Jon Stead (241 apps/112 goals/7.00 rating)
ST: Achille Webo (152 apps/70 goals/6.91 ratings)
Murphy, Brown, Donnelly and Berthet are active players for us.
Players on the backups list that are still active for us:
Matthew Khan (102 apps/51 goals/7.07 rating)
Alex Bruce (234 apps/4 goals/6.73 rating)
Promotion Raise Clauses
The following players earn a raise due to promotion... Kirkland, Murphy, Constantino, Donnelly, Graham, Bruce, Walker, Johnson, Brown, Berthet, Fryers, McKerr, Gordon, Coutts, Khan, Lewis, Newman and Hughes. Quite a list.
Premier Division Schedule
The schedule comes out. We open with two on the road against West Ham and Nottingham Forest. Our first home match is on August 25th against the #1 ranked team in Europe, Chelsea.
TV Rights
UHHHHHHHHHH. Whoa. Ipswich are given $48,510,000 for Premier Division TV rights over the forthcoming season. 48 million????? Last season all our revenue combined was $43.3 million. I SEE.
Season Expectations
We obviously will just try as hard as possible to avoid relegation this year. Our reward for this is a $19.25 Million transfer budget and a payroll budget of $325,000/wk. Unfortunately with all the promotion clauses we sit at $323,541/wk in salaries currently.
Players Promoted
DR Clive Jackson, ST Ian Taylor, and DLC Jack Hughes are promoted up from the U18 squad to the reserves. These were the 3 noteworthy youth players we had last year when I took over. Ian Taylor seems to have fallen out of favor and likely isn't going to make it. Jackson and Hughes however both have very high marks from our coaching staff. Jackson is valued at $2 Million, Hughes at $1.1 Million.
Youth Player Intake
Nothing exciting this year. The best according to our coaches is ST John Weatherstone who has just 2* potential, a "useful" player.
The only "potential star" on our U18 squad right now is GK Chris Mason. "Mason has the potential to far exceed Brian Murphy's current level of ability". He'll turn 17 at the end of June.
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