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Cruff FC is the local club of GSA. It has many top players and competes with the best soccer teams in the world.The Stadium, C-Dome, has the biggest capacity in the world. 120,000 seats. But rarely fills because it holds more than the entire towns population. The Chairman always offers full support and lets the manager manage the team how he wants. Manager is always on the lookout for new,fresh and young talent, which is why he sends a scout to matches played by the GSA to pick up on any talent. He himself will invite any player to a trial for Cruff. But fail and your on the first bus back to GSA.

The club was founded in 1954 by Danny Hoskins, Brett Hoskins' Dad, who was a self made millionaire. He got together a couple of young talents who he spotted in sunday leagues and put them in his team. Soon they were competing with the best. Hoskins sold the club to Senior Danger in 1995 for a sum of 500 million, when Lloyd turned 16 as a present his dad gave him the club and Lloyd remains the chairman today. But when Hoskins sold the club he had a clause. It was that his grandson Brett was to manage the team and be aloud the money he needed to bring future sucsess.

Fixture List and results;

Chelsea - Home - 3-1(W)
Barcelona - Home
AC Milan - Away
Manchester United - Home
Real Madrid - Away
Liverpool - Away
Arsenal - Away
AC Milan - Home
Liverpool - Home
Chelsea - Away
Barcelona - Away
Manchester United - Away
Arsenal - Home
Real Madrid - Home

Cruff News

- 10/9/08 Cruff FC are proud to annouce the release of the new home and away kits. Images will be released shortly!

- 10/9/08 They're here. The kits have been released and now all will be revield!
We would like to thank our designer Johnny_Danger for theese wonderful new kits!

- 10/9/08 A statment from the chairman has just come in.
"We are extremely pleased to have this club up and runnning again, the manager knows my expectations, win the league and put a performance on like your life depends on it every week. We want a exciting game weekly and hope to bring in some more stars. This month I am giving the manager a heathly 85m to spend. All transfers will be ran by me and I won't let any stupid deals go through. I'm looking to buy a CM to strengthen the team, I do have one in mind (Diego) and a nice strong CB that wins anything in the air and a out and out goal scorer preferably torres who will guarrenty goals. Not only that I want the hottest prospect we can get under the age of 21. If extra funds are needed I will allow them, if it doesn't improve the team it won't happen. I am also looking for a decent U25 year old player to strengthen the squad possible W or WB's."

- 10/9/08 News just in; Cruff FC are preparing a bid for Diego of 27m. If the deal is allowed and accepted it would be a club record. The current record is 25m for Steven Gerrard. The deal Also involed the departure of Joe Cole.

- 14/9/08 Cruff FC have made an offical bid of 26 million for Diego of Werder Bremen. The deal was rumord four days ago but due to some difficulties at Werder Bremen the deal was not proposed. The club has ruled out a move for Franck Ribery but have boosted speculation about he move for Karim Benzema. Souza Robinho was rumored to be leaving Manchester City for Cruff FC but manager Brett Hoskins said this " Robinho is a great player but im not sure moving for him now would be best for the club, maybe once we have the team a bit settled i may then consider a move for him. The chairman and I have had words about the matter and he is 100% behind me. I can confirm intrest in Karim Benzema but it has not been discussed with the chairman yet. If and when that deal goes through then Robinho will still not be my no.1 priotity signing. More will be done."

- 14/9/08 Ashley Young has been sold to Fulham for 11m. The club would like to thank Ashley for his contributions and wish him the best in the future. That departure means the clubs budget is now bigger, so maybe more top signings will be comming in.

- 14/9/08 The squad for the match against Cheslea tomorrow has been named ;
In-valid(game played

- 15/9/08 "The chairman is extremley unhappy with the manager selling players which are important to the club and replacing there positions in the squad with the likes of Niklas Bendtner. Who is the worst player in the hold entirer team. The chairman has also said that the rumours that Brett has given up on the chase for Robinho is a load of crap and he is willing to put extra funds in to capture the W/F. Another thing coming out of the Chairmans camp to day is, I am very disappoint that we sold Ashley I am not going to say that I am please with the way the manager has handled things. He refused to comment anymore on the sitution with him and the manager. He also confirmed that he and the manager will be having talks about the possible signing of Arshavin if the Benzema deal falls through!"

- 15/9/08 Breaking news:
The manager has released this statment:
"The team sheet for tonights game against Cheslea was submitted with a mistake. Niklas Bendtner will not be playing and Gabriel Agbonlahor will start. My relationship will the chairman will not be damaged due to a member of the web staff making a mistake. That members job will be at serious risk! I would like to appoligise to Niklas Bendtner for the mistake."

- 15/9/08 Cruff FC have beat Chelsea FC 3-1. Chelsea opened the scoring with Drogba. But Cruff came back with 2 goals from David Villa and one from Steven Gerrard. A full match report will be posted tommorow, along with the contract signing of Diego.

- 15/9/08 The bid for Diego was accepted by Werder Bremen. The player will sign a contract tomorow and will play the next game against Barcelona

- 16/9/08 The midfielder Diego has signed a four year deal at Cruff FC. The total sum of the fee was 26m and will see the midfielder earning 80,000cc a week.

-16/9/08 A message from the manager:
"The interview I gave 2 days ago saying I won't sign robinho is now somthing of the past, as I can announce Cruff FC are making an offical bid for the young W/F. This decision has nothing to do with the chairmans statement and I can confidently say that his suggestions are just suggestions and they will not be on my No.1 priority list. Carlos Tevez is one of MY targets and I wish to sign him soon. Micheal Essien and Gareth Barry are my other two targets. I hope to complete the signing of a CB within the next two days. I have a few names in mind and I am currently in talks with one player who wishes to remain annonamous so the media don't target him. I am delighted to confirm the signing of Diego and i want to say that he will be a big part of our team in years to come. I expect the Robinho deal to be done by tommorow at the latest. He WILL be a Cruff player by the next game against Barcelona.Thank you."

- 17/9/08 A message from the manager:
"A bid for Robinho was put in to Manchest City earlier today. I can confirm that the bid was accepted and the player has signed a 5 year deal at the club and will leave Manchester City for a fee of 34m. Because of the size of this deal I am currently in talks with the chairman of Cruff FC about him possibly putting extra money for big transfers. That is all."

- 17/9/08 A message from the manager:
"Cruff FC can confirm the selling on Niklas Bendtner for 9m to West Ham. The chairman had been showing a desire to sell the player for a while and he now has what he wants. The player will sign a contract later on today. Cruff can also confirm an offical bid for Micheal Essien has been put forward to chelsea. Essien played in the match against Cruff FC earlier this week and impressed me. I would like to bring the player in for around 36m but i will go down on that price as much as i can."

- 17/9/08 Breaking News- Manager Brett Hoskins has donated 35m to the clubs transfer budget. This comes as the club sign Michael Essien for 35m. He signed a contract a few minutes ago completly un-noticed by any media.

- 17/9/08 Cruff FC have put a 17 million cc bid for Gareth Barry of Aston Villa. If the club completes the signing it will be the managers fourth and here is what he had to say about it; " I am delighted that players are happy to come to our club and with the money being put in im sure we shall be an unstopable force this season. I still wish to bring in 2 more players if we get Gareth. They will come in the shape of a CB and a forward. If we have the money left over I would like to bring in another CB. If we dont then I may sell some players to make room and bring in cash. Then my squad will be complete. That is unless we get any injurys. The signing of Essien and Roninho proves what a force we are going to be and if we can carry on signing the calibre of players we have so far im sure that we can win that title.

- 18/9/08 Two players have signed for Villareal from Cruff FC. One of which was Stiliyan Petrov, he left for 7m and the other was Morten Gamst Pederson who left for 14m. Cruff would like to wish both players a great future at they're new club.

- 19/9/08 Cruff can confirm the signing of Karim Benzema from Lyon for 25 million cc. He signed a four year deal at the club earlier today. Lyon are showing interest in a few Cruff players and some of which may be going in the opposite direction to Karim.

- 19/9/08 3 players have been sold to Lyon as part of a deal with the club. The deal was that Cruff get benzema if Lyon got Franco Di Santo, Fraiser Campbell and Zat Kight. But Lyon were annoyed when Cruff sold them the players for extra after Benzema wanted extra wages. This ment the original price of Di santo,3m, went up by 2m to 5m. Then Fraiser Campbell went up to 6m and Zat knight to 9. Lyon are buying 1 more player from Cruff in the form of Cristian Panucci who is expected to leave for 10m.

- 20/9/08
A message from the manager; " I am delighted to tell you all that we have completed our second last signing,until the next game. Nemanja Vidic has joined us for a sum of 27m and joins on a four year deal. I am aware that the sum of the transfer dosn't leave a big budget. So I am putting a final 15 million cc into the budget so that I can complete my last big signing. It will be a CB and it will come in a big form too. So just wait and see who I bring in next. After I sign my next player I will be looking to sign a few smaller players to bulk up the squad. Then if I have any injurys I won't end up will players that were left for me. I prefer to have a squad that I have either bought or picked. That way if we come away from a match with a loss, I can take the blame if its my players. However if I am playing players that are not my preferd and we come away from a match with a loss then I am getting the blame for somthing that is not really mine. But that is not the situation and I have the complete backing of the chairman. He believes that I can take the club to new hights."
The manager was asked about the rumor of a new cup and this was his responce; "Im exited at the prospect of a new piece of silverware available to us. I know that it may be a more difficult challange as it is supposed to be knock out every round, so there will be no room for error. It's a great opportunity to take the club forward and I believe it would be a perfect opportunity to show off our talented sqaud by maybe preforming a double. As we currently are only in one competion, it would take some getting used to. Fatigue would be no problem, it would mean the players playing maybe 2 matches a week instead of 1. All three of them could be away from home. That means they would be traveling most days of the week. But we could work around that."

- 20/9/08 Just moments after signing Nemanja Vidic from Manchester United, Cruff FC have signed Garcia Sergio Ramos from Real Madrid for 32m. He is expected to be Cruff's last major summer signing, however the manager has stressed that he will be buying more in the market. But more little players.

- 20/9/08 Stafan Radu has been sold to Sporting Lisbon for 10 million cc. The 21 year old defender signed on a 3 year deal. Cruff wish him all the best in the rest of his carer.

- 21/9/08 The starting line up for the match tomorrow against Barcelona has been named;
GK - Peter Cech
LCB - Nemanja Vidic
CB - John Terry
RCB - Garcia Sergio Ramos
CDM - Gareth Barry
CMR - Steven Gerrard
CM - Micheal Essien
CML - Diego
LF - Souza Robinho
CF -Sánchez David Villa
RF - Karim Benzema
All of the New signings are playing this match.

A message from the manager:
"A bid for Robinho was put in to Manchest City earlier today. I can confirm that the bid was accepted and the player has signed a 5 year deal at the club and will leave Manchester City for a fee of 34m. Because of the size of this deal I am currently in talks with the chairman of Cruff FC about him possibly putting extra money for big transfers. That is all."

Breaking News- Manager Brett Hoskins has donated 35m to the clubs transfer budget. This comes as the club sign Michael Essien for 35m. He signed a contract a few minutes ago completly un-noticed by any media.

The 17m bid for Gareth Barry was accepted and he signed a four year deal at Cruff. This means Brett will sign atleast 2 more players and maybe 1 more after that.

Cruff can confirm the signing of Karim Benzema from Lyon for 25 million cc. He signed a four year deal at the club earlier today. Lyon are showing interest in a few Cruff players and some of which may be going in the opposite direction to Karim.