Good Form and January Transfers

Hello Readers. I am pleased to say that our good form is continuing. Have a look at the league table. We sit a comfortable 9 points clear, which is mainly due to Arsenal's poor form of late. We are playing Arsenal next, and if we win we will be 12 points clear and the title would almost be ours.
Here are the latest set of fixtures from the beginning of December to the end of January. We only lost one game, and that was a dead rubber against Roma when we fielded a weakened team, and even then we didn't deserve to lose. Apart from that it has been an excellent couple of months and we are now unbeaten in 20 league games. As I have said before, the Champions League is the target this season, and after topping our group, we were drawn against Lyon. Lyon are a decent team but I fancy our chances of winning the tie.

These are the all the transfers for the season, but you can see we signed two players in January. They were Darijo Srna on a free, after his contract expired at Shaktar. He is a very useful player due to his versatility. He is a natural at DR, WBR and MR, and is accomplished at DL, WBL and ML. The one player sold was Albert Riera, to Barcelona. He was sold mainly due to his age (29), his declining pace and the good offer Barcelona put in. Downing was signed as a replacement for him and will be a backup for Silva on the Left.

Here are Srna's attributes. He has no real weakness, and is quite quick, skillful and is a decent tackler. He also has amazing crossing and delivery, and is a real danger from free kicks.

Downing was signed as a direct replacement for Riera, and his attributes are very similar, he is just younger and quicker. He is only a backup player, so is not a particularly interesting signing and is merely a decent player. Finally, I would like to mention Lauri Dalla Valle. He was out on loan at Stoke until Christmas, but came back just in time to play a few matches. We had an injury crises up front and he ended up playing against West Ham, Fulham and Man United. The crises came because Fabiano got an injury that kept him out for a month, Torres got an elbow injury, that sidelined him for 2 weeks. Gignac was still not fit, due to his broken ankle, although he has just come back now. To top it all of the 4th choice striker Vavilov was out for 6 weeks with Cruciate Ligament Damage.

All this meant Dalla Valle played up front on his own in 3 games, and he did well, scoring against Fulham and a beauty against West Ham from an impossible angle. He has really improved over the last year, and now is my bright hope for the future.

That's all for this post, thanks for reading. I will inform you of the Champions League and spring results soon.