What do I know about Panathinaikos ? Well, once a relative of mine bought me their home shirt after a holiday visit, my local team Portsmouth once splashed a relatively high amount of money on a few players pre-Premier league years on some Greek international talent and Greeces European Championship triumph but other than that I know nothing. Until now I had never actually had any European management experience in the way of Football Manager so I thought I would take Lockdown 3.0 as the perfect opportunity to do so and the rest they say is history…Well, not history but what follows is what I now know 1 ( or 2 ) season later in charge of Panathinaikos in the Greek Super League 1. My first observation in my foray into Panathinaikos was the stark realisation that a lot of Greek players sound the same and I’d have to get to grips with this pretty quickly, second was that their finances weren’t what I had expected at all given them being 1 of 4 of the biggest teams in Athens and t...
Putting together a full data analysis of Portsmouth Football Club would be at least a weeks worth of work, so I’m just going to outline a win and a loss. Out most recent league loss v Sunderland and our most recent win V Oxford . First up I would like to put forward my starting 11 going forwards, for obvious reasons this is my own personal opinion of how I would play us going forwards, not how I expect us to play. Starting from the back in between the posts is MacGillivray , He’s the simple goalkeeping choice other than Alex Bass who is unfortunately injured after a loan to Southend in League 2. MacGillivray has performed to the best of his ability up to this point in the season, while at times he has made a few mistake for the most part he has been consistent. Defence lines up as WBR Mnoga CB Whatmough CB Raggett WBL Brown , a solid defence not only of height but also in pace and overall abilty. Mnoga I personally feel is one of our best young prospects and is deserving o...