Burnley FM17 Career mode Part 6- Transfer Window and the FA Cup

Hello everybody and welcome back to my FM17 career mode with Burnley as we now enter that period of the season that frankly I hate....THE JANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW. Yep I know what is going to happen, since I have been working wonders with my team and my players have been fantastic, the "Big Boys" are going to come in and think this is a sweet shop and pick and mix the players they want from my club. Well the shop is well and truly closed you greedy little buggers and no one and I mean NO ONE will be sold.
(Apart from Dean Marney, he felt that he wanted a new challenge, so he went to Sunderland)
So in today's piece we look to continue our fine form and hopefully start our Cup Journey.....

The one player I want to keep hold off mainly is Michael Keane and if all else fails I will lock him in the Jimmy Mac stand.

Game 1- Liverpool (H)
The first game of the new year and we play Liverpool at home. I didn't realise that the Stoke game from last time out and this one were two days apart so yeah my players are pretty knackered but they die for the team. Last time out we drew against Klopp with Andre Gray netting a 90th minute equaliser.

Andre just loves Liverpool doesn't he, what a WIN!!. Gray bagging himself a hat-trick and that partnership with Bamford....we are cooking on fire ladies and gentlemen!!!

Game 2- Chesterfield (A) The FA Cup
The first game of our FA Cup journey and we face Ched Evans FC and the rest of the Chesterfield crew. I want us to really make a statement so I will playing a very strong squad and hopefully we can get the job done and move on.

That will do, that's exactly what I wanted. BIG WIN for the boys as the Road to Wembley begins.

Game 3-  West Ham (H)
We face the Hammers at home, as we look to continue our fine form in the league. Last time we faced West Ham we picked up our first away win of the season with Andre Gray bagging late to get us a win, hopefully we can get a win over the Hammers at home.

Love that, comfortable 2-0 win and we got there in the end. It doesn't matter when the goals come as long as they do come, so a solid win all round. UP THE CLARETS!!!

Game 4- Tottenham (H)
You gotta love the daily grind of the league and we face one of our top 4 rivals (yeah we are going for top 4) in the Spurs. Tottenham we all know have players who can really hurt us and punish us if we are not careful. LETS HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

We could have been top. A late minute penalty, well i suppose Spurs deserved that but so disappointed, Andre gray bagging yet again as we go to Saint Mary's next. Bamford putting in a shift yet again, we nearly have 50 points.

Game 5- Southampton (A)
Up next is another tricky game as we take on another top 4 rival in Southampton in 5th place. I think this is our game in hand as well, so no pressure there. Defour is back in the side as Tom Carroll drops down to the bench. UP THE CLARETS

Clean sheet away from home puts up top of the league on 50 points but there is now 3 points separating the top 6 and guess what we are in the top 6 BABY!!!!. Top on Goal difference.

Game 6- Wigan (A) The FA CUP
The road to Wembley stops off at Wigan as we face a side who boasts the man who is on fire....Will Grigg. Yep it's time, Besty vs Will Grigg. I am going to make a couple of changes as I am going to look for other players to impress and key players to have a rest.

This year is our year!!!! We put out the fire that was Will Grigg and our extinguisher came in the form of James Tarkowski. We could have put more past them but happy with the result.

As it was the January transfer window, Liverpool put in a £30mil bid for Keane which the board accepted but I protested it because Michael Keane is too valuable to me and he is staying at the turf!!!!

GET IN THERE and before I forget, us at Burnley Football Club wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

UP THE CLARETS