Walsall Misses Champions League Spot

2023-2014 Premiere League Season

Manchester United managed to win the 2023-2014 Premiere League Trophy and their 3rd in a row and their 5th title in 6 years.

Walsall finished in 6th place on 70 points which means no Champion League matches for next year season.

Premiere League Season 2023-2024 *UPDATE*

Game Date: 16th Feb 2024.

With more than half of the current season gone, now is the time for a mid-season update on how Walsall 6th year in the Premiere League is going.

At the moment, Walsall sits at the 7th spot on the English top league with 12 matches remaining, so there's still time left to get into a Championship League spot.

New arrival Kris Rees is the team top performer leading the squad in goals with 13 across all competition while adding 7 assist.

New striker Wayne Lockwood who replaced Odsonne Edouard has bagged 12 goals and has added 9 assist which is a lot for a striker.

Jesus Noriega Injury woes.

The face of Walsall, Jesus Noriega injury problem has remained during the new season by missing an additional 3 months with an torn hamstring but he's currently back on the squad healthy. His form hasn't been so good since his returned but we're hoping with time, he'll be back to his extraordinaire form.

Premiere League League Leaders in Stats.

Arsenal's striker Tim Van Gool leads the league in goal with 18, followed by Tottenham striker Harry Kane who has recorded 17.

Van Gool is also the best rated player at 7.54, followed by Manchester United James Rodriguez at 7.48.

Manchester United Goalkeeper David De Gea leads the league with 18 shutouts.

Guillermo Arastey Injury

Arastey injury is a bit upsetting because he was finally putting all his skillsets together by having the best season of his career stats-wize, so to see him go down with a broken leg which will keep him out for 4-5 months is bad. Spending $46M pound on him to buy him  from Villarreal was heavily criticized, so it was fun to see him repay us back by having a great year statistically.

The good news is that Jesus Noriega was coming back when he got injured, so we were able to slot Jesus into his right-side striker position, but our preference was to be able to play both of them together at some point.

Guillermo Arastey season 2023-2024 statistics

Players expected to Leave or have already left Walsall F.C

Central Midfielder Ryan Guald, a player who has been with us for the past 5 years has been sold to Hull City for $13.25M pound. Great servant for the team but he had a few young player ahead of him in the pecking order + only had 1 year left in his contract, so we had to move him.

Paul Dummets was sold to Leed United for $575k pound. Played 4 years for Walsall before moving on. Was original brough to Walsall for $375k pound.

James Tarkowski and Odsonne Edouard are the 2 rotational players who are very likely to be sold before the transfer window closes.

Premiere League Season 2023-2024 - Walsall Lose first game

After a decent transfer window bringing a few new players in, Walsall manages too lose their first match of young season, going down in defeat 2 to 1 against Newcastle United. Despite controlling possession on a 55% clip and putting more shots on target 23 to 13, we still could not manage to come up with the 3 points to start the season.

Guillermo Arastey scored Walsall lone goal which was set up by Jesus Noriega.

2023-2024 Walsall new Arrivals so far

So far we've signed 3 new players,  Forward Gareth Bale,  striker Wayne Lockwood and  Cental-Back Carlos Delem.

Wayne Lockwood was signed from Championship outfit Crystal Palace and will be counted on to replace the soon departing Odsonne Edouard who hasn't been the same since his first year with Walsall when he won the FWA English player of the year.

Gareth Bale is now 33 year olds but still retain great mental attribute, so we decided to sign him to help out with the younger players and give the team an extra left footed forward that can play across the 3 forward positions.

My key signing for this season is French central back Carlos Delem who will strengthen our defense and start alongside Cameron Carter-Vickers which means Hause will have to move to LB in which he has plenty of experience playing.

Walsall 2022/23 Season Best Eleven

Jesus Noriega was Walsall player of the year while Steve Smolarczyk was the signing of the year. Smolarczyk was signed to replace World-Class Full-Back Almamy Toure and he did a decent job doing it by finishing with an overall rating of 7.28 in all competition.

Noriega also collected Walsall goal of the year + young player of the year at 23 year old.

F.C Barcelona Fire Luis Enrique

After failing to win the Spanish league and getting eliminated By Manchester United in the semi-final of the Champions League, Barcelona decided to fire Luis Enrique and are now searching for a new manager.

Luis Enrique has been managing Barca since 2014 and has won the Spanish League 6 times alongside 11 cup titles. He also won the Champions League on 2 occasion, 2015 and 2019

Early speculation on who may replace him are Walter Mazzari of Napoli, Jurgen Klopp of Arsenal and Antonio Conte of Juventus.

Tim Van Gool Wins 2022-2023 PFA Young Player Of The Year

Arsenal young Phenom Tim Van Gool has won the PFA young Player Of The Year.
The 22 year old dutch scored a phenomenal 37 goals in just 35 appearances, started in 30 of them.. Overall bagged 42 goals across all competition on 46 appearances(40 starts).