#4 | A Swarm Of Bees

Episode 4. New Signings For The Hive.

Previous Episode: Episode 3. High Flying Bees.

As I head into my first transfer window in this series, I will be looking at bringing in players for the future and not for this season. Also, I am using the scouting system to recommend me players instead of player search. I have avoided watching the old FM24 wonderkid videos as I prefer to bring in my own wonderkids…But before we get into the transfers, let’s see how the fixtures panned out in this month…

We board asked me if I wanted to change season expectations and I said yes due to us being in 5th place at the end of the last update…

January ‘24

A Kevin Schade penalty was enough to share a point on New Years Day in a 1–1 draw against Forest. Then, it was followed up by another draw, this time in the FA Cup 3rd round tie against Sheffield Wednesday who’s goal was a factor of VAR, bloody VAR. Kevin Schade scored our goal in the 1–1 draw against Wednesday. Liverpool did the double over us in the league but this time it wasn’t by five goals to nil, but we did manage to keep it to only one goal as they defeated us 1–0 at the Gtech.

In the FA Cup 3rd round replay, the ten-men of the Bees won, thanks to Sepp van der Berg penalty to win the shootout 9–8. The game itself finished 2–2 with Kevin Schade and Keane Lewis-Potter with our goals. The next game was our 4th round, FA Cup fixture at home against Huddersfield. This time against a Championship side, we brushed them aside 3–0, with Yoane Wissa, Thiago and Aaron Hickey with the goals. Back to the final league game of the month was away at Stamford Bridge with Chelsea claiming all the points as we lost 2–0.

League Table

We dropped from 5th to 7th in the league, however with 15 games in the league remaining we are still in a good position to way above the season’s expectation of avoid relegation battle.

Transfers In

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Ilario Monterisi — DEF (Right, Centre) — Signed from Frosinone for £7M and loaned back to the Italian side until the end of the season.

Eduardo Quaresma — DEF /MID (Centre, Right & DM)— Signed from Sporting for £1.8M and loaned back to the Portuguese side until the end of the season.

Pascal Klemens — DEF/MID (Centre & DM) — Signed from Hertha Berlin for £9.5M and loaned back to the German side until the end of the season.

Hendry Blank — DEF (Centre, Left) — Signed from Red Bull Salzburg for £4.5M and loaned back to the Austrian side until the end of the season.

Sverre Halseth Nypan — MID (Centre, AMRLC) — Signed from Rosenborg for £3.5M and loaned back to the Norwegian side until the end of next season.

Two more in the summer, Anthony Oyono — DEF (R/L) — from Frosinone and Eddie Salcedo — FOR — from Inter Milan will be arriving at Gtech Community Stadium, on free transfers once their current contracts expire in the summer.

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