Klippybo
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Artur Santos
1950-61
Defender
284 apps, 0 goals
Santos spent his entire career with Benfica and retired just before the club won 2 European Cups. He did win 4 league titles though and also 2 caps for Portugal.
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JANUARY
Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba, Ferro, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Grimaldo, Luis (Budinauckas), Camara, Antony (Tsygankov), Felix*, Everton, Petric (Ramos)
Despite only winning by the 1 goal we should have scored much more such was our dominance. At least we won though and Joao Felix scored yet again.
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Lineup - Cerqueira, Tavares, Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Ramirez, Luis (Sanches), Budinauckas*, Antony (Tsygankov), Felix (Ramos), Everton, Petric
A boring match that was settled by a Zoran Petric goal. Jonny Budinauckas got yet another MOM award while starting - thats 4 from 7 starts!!!
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Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba, Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Grimaldo, Luis, Camara*, Antony (Tsygankov), Almada, Everton (Ramos), Petric (Imbesi)
The goals seem to have dried up a bit as Antony and Everton are off form and we are missing Mbappe. My latest signing, Rogelio Imbesi, came off the bench to make his debut.
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Taca de Portugal Quarter-Final
Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba, Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Grimaldo, Luis, Camara, Antony (Tsygankov), Felix (Almada), Everton, Petric (Imbesi)
A truly disgusting performance as up to the 80th minute we only had 1 shot on goal. Antony, Petric and Felix were hopeless and we are dumped out of the Portuguese Cup. The fact that their goal was a 35 yard screamer offers no consolation.
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Lineup - Cerqueira, Tavares, Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Ramirez, Budinauckas, Camara, Antony (Tsygankov), Felix, Everton (Almada), Petric (Imbesi)
We bounce back from our cup exit with an excellent away win over Porto. Petric put us ahead and we were pegged back but Joao Felix tucked away a penalty to give us the advantage again. Tomas Tavares scored a stunning rare goal as he powered in a volley from a narrow angle and although they pulled a goal back we hung on for the win.
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Allianz Cup Semi-Final
Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba (Tavares), Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Grimaldo, Luis, Camara, Antony*, Felix (Almada), Everton, Petric (Imbesi)
Back to back victories over Porto and with this one we reach the Allianz Cup final. It was won thanks to a terrific free-kick from Antony and Porto never really troubled us after that.
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Allianz Cup Final
Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba, Dias*, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Ramirez, Luis, Budinauckas, Antony (Tsygankov), Felix, Lasso (Almada), Petric (Imbesi)
Normally I would be delighted to win a trophy but I am embarrassed that we couldnt get the job done in 90min. We had to rely on a penalty shoot-out to claim the cup and that was even a non event as they missed all 3 of their penalties.
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Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba (Tavares), Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu, Grimaldo, Luis (Budinauckas), Camara, Mbappe (Tsygankov), Felix, Lasso, Petric*
The goals were flowing here as Kylian Mbappe returned from injury. He was recommended to play just 45min so I gave him the first half on the RW since Antony was injured. The great shame was that Camara missed a penalty to deny him his hat-trick.
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Lineup - Cerqueira, Ongoiba, Dias, Sebahattin Sahinoglu (Ferro), Grimaldo, Luis, Camara (Budinauckas), Mbappe (Tsygankov), Felix, Lasso, Petric*
We end the month with an easy win. Zoran Petric has finally rekindled his goalscoring form and has 5 in his last 5 league games.
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SUMMARY
January was a bit of a mixed month. On one hand we won all 6 of our league fixtures and that included a 3-2 win over FC Porto to top the league and we also collected the Allianz Cup, again beating Porto in the semis before we came out on top on penalties against Tondela in a dismal final.
Picking up a trophy is always good but I have standards and they just werent met at various points in the month and none more so when we lost to Sporting Lisbon in the Taca de Portugal which was infuriating.
There was a bit of transfer movement in the window with 1 first team player leaving. The man gone is Goncalo Ramos who joined Guangzhou Evergrande for an initial £57m which could go up to £67m which is a remarkable amount of money for our 3rd choice AMC and striker!!! In total Ramos played 108 times for me (just 12 starts) and scored 19 goals.
I received bids for Tomas Tavares, Hugo Lasso, Ronaldo Camara and Zoran Petric but I rejected all those bids although I did loan out Joao Resende amongst others.
Incoming was Rogelio Imbesi in a deal that was pre-arranged and he was signed for £4.2m. The Argentinian forward looks like a top prospect and I had planned to loan him out but that didnt go to plan so I decided to keep him around and loan out Resende instead.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ZORAN PETRIC
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