Board gave me £31m to worth with, with a goal of avoiding relegation.
I was active in the transfer market, acquiring:
CB - David Wheater from Middlesbrough for £6m
ST - Robert Lewandowski from Dortmund for £6.75m
LB - Carl Dickinson from Stoke for £875k
CB - John Mensah from OL for £1.5m
CM - Maxime Gonalons from OL for £3.5m
GK - Roy Carroll on a free.
FB - Phil Neville on a free.
Out:
Lee Barnard, Dean Hammonds, Hans Sarpei, Kelvin Davis out on free transfers.
Going to roll with:
--------Lewandowski---Lambert----------
Poulsen---------------------------Lallana
--------Gonalons-----Schneiderlin--------
Dickinson-----Mensah---Wheater-----Kelly
------------------Lewis------------------
Substitutes: Roy Carroll, Maurice Edu, Jason Puncheon, Phil Neville, Nicklas Pedersen, Jose Fonte, Kirk Broadfoot
Others: Ryan Dickson, Jurgen Saumel, Juanito
In addition, I also completely overhauled my backroom staff. Sammy Lee is now my assistant manager most notably.
On the international front, I applied to the England job after Capello retired, didn't get it. Couldn't even get the Ireland job when it opened. Bleh.
I'm pretty interested to see how Lambert fares at the premiership level. His contract runs out at the end of the year so I may sell him in January if he doesn't impress.