euanpolo Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Well its 2012 and I've finally made Newcastle bankrupt, after years of spending what Ashley's given me its happened, AND RUINED MY LEAGUE SEASON! I've been docked 9 points, so I've gone from 4th to 8th. Thats my title chances down the drain for another season. At5 lesat I'm still int eh Champions League, I beat Barca on away goals and now I have Porto. I'm just worried I'll get the sack, after winning the league cup and fa cup for nufc in 08 I can add bankrupcy to my many achievements in FM08. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyrule_king Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Just a few questions , i'm currently playing yet another save game with newcastle. I've only ever done till the third season, how good does n'zogbia and milner get say 4th season onwards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyrule_king Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 My Team GK Given DR Yakubu DL Enrique DC Coloccini DC Samba DMC Barton AMC Defour/Jimenez AMR Milner AML N'Zogbia FC Owen FC Smith/ Nihat (currently injured for 4 months) Now i can either go with a 28m for berbatov or buy affelay/bentley/ashton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chosen One Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Bought 10 players in the July transfer and I am really force to reckon. I am par with Arsenal, Man U, and Chelsea. But the problem is I am in debt. The club did enough to take a loan but still need to work my up in the balance (negative now)... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir frosinone Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 starting a new game with the toon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Williams Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I finshed 2nd in the league in my first season and became champions in the 2nd season. I played a 4-3-1-2 formation and bought Hugo Lloris, Jean ll Makoun, Rafael Van Der Vaart, Klass-Jan Huntelaar and Guilherme (the forward from Cruzeiro) in my first season. I kept the same defence in the first season and amazingly did pretty well with them and had Steven Taylor scoring headers at free-kicks and corners Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowballnufc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 got a couple of players for you guys to have a look at, a player called rodrigues (spellin?) from chivas nd hes a great cb he got signing of the season first season and he came cheap at 2.1 million and also dean ashton is a legend for me got him in jan 08 for 14 mill and he scored 41 goals in his second season with me now inter are interested in him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowballnufc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ashtonnewpj5.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hyrule_king Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 £22m on Mertesacker, is it worth it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyrule_king Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Originally posted by snowballnufc:got a couple of players for you guys to have a look at, a player called rodrigues (spellin?) from chivas nd hes a great cb he got signing of the season first season and he came cheap at 2.1 million and also dean ashton is a legend for me got him in jan 08 for 14 mill and he scored 41 goals in his second season with me now inter are interested in him Could you post your ashton player instructions. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinster6 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Thought I'd share my first season with all you NUFC managers out there!! Just about to start the second season with my Newcastle team on 8.0.2. after finishing 6th in my first season and securing UEFA cup and also taking my lads to Wembley in FA Cup semi final against Man.Ure and losing to a Ronaldo pen in the 89th min Choose a top ten finish and largest pitch possible! My Team GK: Shay Given (Enyeama 300k) DL: Enrique DR: Beye DC: Taylor (Sakho 750k) DC: Samba 1.8m (Kompany 6.5m) DMC: Nigel Reo Coker 7m AML: Matias Fernandez 7.5m (Menez 7m) AMR: Arshavin 9m (Milner) MC: Barton (Geremi) MC: Rafael van de Vaart 10m (Dereck Boateng 1.8m) ST: Owen (Martins/Stancu 1.1m) Formation I play a 2-3-2-2-1 formation based on Jazzfusions tactic and the 2-6-2 rule GK DC DC DWB DMC DWL MC MC AMR AML ST Transfers In - Saviet 575k - Scored 36 in 33 Under 18 games, gonna be a gem - Bostok 450k - Average rating of 7.36 in the under 18's and scored 10 from CM - Samba 1.8m A must buy, won premiership signing of the season - Kompany 6.5m - A very good affordable CB - Sakho 750k Very promising youngster - Enyeama Very competent, cheap backup goalkeeper - Nigel Reo Coker 7m has been a good signing average rating of 7.05 - Matias Fernandez 7.5m Brilliant AML one of the best - Menez 7m - Voted 2nd best premiership signing of the season - enough said - Rafael can de vaart 10m - My favourite champ manager player over the years and doesn't let you down in FM8 bags of goals, loads of assists and a hatrick against Chel$ki - love him - Arshavin 9m yet to impress but I have high hopes and is talked about allot. - Dereck Boateng 1.8 Good cheap backup CM one for the future - Stancu 1.1m One of the games top young strikers, sent him on loan and scored for fun in lower leagues - HERE IS THE BIG ONE - AGUERO 26m signed to replace Owen at the end of season 1 - cant wait to play him Out - Harper 800k After using him at the start when given is injured, did ok but too old IMO. - Emre 2.2m Sold at the end of season 1, didn't use him that much and wanted him off the wage bill - Carr FREE at the end of season 1 was in the reserves all season - Butt FREE at the end of season 1 was in the reserves all season - Cacapa 800k at the very start of the game - Krul 2.2m + 50% offer too good to turn down - Owen 13m Transfer listed him at the end of season 1 and chairman accepted 13m scored 22 in 30 starts - N'Zogbia 7m in the January transfer window as was keeping the bench warm - Smith 4.5m I like Smith but didn't perform for me, sold in Jan - Duff 2m Never did anything much, sold at the end of season 1, pleased to get him off the wage bill - Viduka 1.8 to West Ham and didn't stop scoring against me grrrr - Ameobi 1.5m Managed to get rid of him at the end of season 1, was in the reserves all year Loans - Banega looks like a solid DMC but didn't get much opportunity - Shaun Wright-Phillips failed to impress, fans didn't like him so sent him back Notes - Make sure you offer Owen & Martins new contracts at the beginning of the game to get rid of their hidden minimum release clause. Play them as target men and running onto ball - both of them scored over 20 goals. - Steven taylor was awesome for me, scored 7 goals and Milan & Real Madrid are chasing - If you can't sell a player try loaning him out for 3 months to a team who will play him. - Given is awesome I hope this helps any budding Newcastle managers! If any of you guys out there could advice me on staff members I would be most appreciative. I'm looking to get 7 star coaches in and a more useful Assistant Manager - any ideas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
foza43 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 This is the first time that i've actually been proud enough of a team to stick them on here. so heres the story so far... 1st season - i had a really disappointing season finishing 9th in the league and gettin knocked out of the cup competitions early. to be honest i thought i was gonna be sacked but apparently the board and fans were happy with 9th! The most disappointin thing though was losing 38-0 to reading. I selected my strongest side, got to the match and saw that none of my players were selected, frankly i have no idea what happened and presumed it was just a bug!! Transfers - I brought in these players for a combined £42mil Hamsik - Napoli - DM Cavani - Palermo - FC Barnes - Derby - AMRC Luis Garcia - Zaragoza - AM/FC Ashavin - Zenit - AMRC Sakho - PSG - DLC Garay - Racing - SW/DC Kuffour - Ajax - DC (Loan) I signed kuffour just for 2 months due to both taylor and garay getting injured. Team GK - Given RB - Beye LB - Enrique CB - Garay & Taylor RM - Arshavin LM - N'zogbia CM - Hamsik & Barton CF - Owen & Luis Garcia 2nd Season - I entered the Euro Vase and progressed into the Euro Cup. I got knocked out of the early and presumed that this season would turn out like the previous season. However, due to some wholesale changes that i made and David Moyes going completely mad at Everton (must have been a bug) i ended up winning the prem with a 10 point gap over arsenal!! Transfers - Combined £70mil Bellaid - Strasbourg - DRC Ochoa - America - GK Toulalan - Lyon - MC Rossi - Villarreal - AM/FC Flavio - Flamengo (i think) - AM/FC Kranjcar - Portsmouth - AMLC Iaquinta - Juventus - FC Yobo - Everton - DC Arteta - Everton - AMRLC Vaughan - Everton - SC Lescott - Everton - DLC Baines - Everton - DL Moyes put them all up for transfer, all of them were about £2m under there current valuation and i presumed that moyes had gone completely mad so i brought them all!! I sold Ameobi, Rozehnal, Emre, Viduka, Krul, Smith, Ramage, Duff, Cavani, Geremi, Carr, Owen, Milner, Enrique and Beye for a combined total of £52mil, which i thought was pretty good. Team GK - Ochoa RB - Faye LB - Baines CB - Garay & Lescott RM - Arteta LM - Kranjcar CM - Toulalan & Hamsik CF - Martins & Vaughan Anyway just starting my 3rd season and have signed Ben Arfa, Robben, Yaya Toure and Jack Wilshere and sold Butt, Harper, Faye, Luis Garcia, Ashavin. After losing to Man U in the community shield i decided to change my tactics for this season and so far (2 games in) it seems to be working! Team GK - Ochoa CB - Yobo, Garay & Lescott DM - Toure CM - Toulalan & Hamsik RM - Ben Arfa LM - Robben CF - Martins & Rossi Iv beaten fulham 3-1 and liverpool 4-2 so hopefully this season will be like last year!!!! will keep you guys updated with my progress throughout this new season!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkenbergsmannen Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Where does i need some improvment?? 2nd season 8.0.2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JD 1984 Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hey guys just thinking of starting a Newcastle game so i was wanting to know a few things if thats alrite ?? How much cash do you start of with?? Who is a MUST to sell?? What positions need improved straight away??? Any good youngsters in the Reserves/U18??? Any help would be great thanks guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinster6 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Originally posted by JD 1984:Hey guys just thinking of starting a Newcastle game so i was wanting to know a few things if thats alrite ?? How much cash do you start of with?? Who is a MUST to sell?? What positions need improved straight away??? Any good youngsters in the Reserves/U18??? Any help would be great thanks guys. Hi JD, Cash all depends what you tell the board you will achieve, I think I got 28million for a top half finish!! I'm assuming you're on patch 8.0.2? Must sells IMO are: Cacapa (800k-1m) Smith (4-6m) Ameobi (2-4m) various other high earners can be sold on: Viduka, Emre, Duff, Butt, Carr ect ect You must Strenghan at CB - Must buy is Samba from Blackburn Andy Carrol turns into a useful player, as does lua lua. Make Henri Saviet your first signing, best youngster in the game. See me recent post above for a look at my first season in charge! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfc25 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Just taken over newcastle after the were relagated from the prem in first season. I started off managing Lyon (doing well) saw newcastle in 21st place in the championship with 14 games to go with steve coppell as thier manager, they looked like they were going to get relageted again. Anyway - i quit lyon for them, and won all remaining 14 leagues - which was quite good, as all of the best players had been sold, Owen, Taylor, Martins etc... I was left with Germei, duff, viduka, all on very high wages, losing alot of money each month, Not to mention all of coppells buys - Garvan from ipswich who was on 40K per week, Koumas on 55K per week, Mcfadden on 80K per week. Anyway i managed to finsih 6th on goal differnce, i then went on to beat wolvoes 3-0 on agg in the play-off 1st & 2nd leg, before facing QPR in the play-off final, i lost 1-0 despite controlling the game, my first defeat in charge of newcastle. When i took over, i was given a massive £115M for transfers, however - i could not really sign players of real quilaty, as they were not preperaed to drop down divsions. Luckiy pompy were relagated, I managed to sign Steven tayor Fpr £18M afer coppell sold him to pompy for £11M, bit expensive, but i had to sign him quick as liverpool were intrested. Signed 25players in total, and sold/released most of coppells buys, as there wages were so high. Transfers IN: Steven taylor - pompey - £18M Havarad Nordtveit - WBA - £6M Billy Sharp - Sheff utd - £4M Jack Hobbs - Liverpool - £1.5M Andreas Granqvist - Wigan - £5M Sergio Mota - Sao paulo - £7M Tim Krul - Watford - £3M Stephen Darby - Liverpool - £500K Eduardo Ratinho - C0rinthians - £9M Nick Montgomery - Sheff utd - £2M Rhys Murphy - Arsenal - £5M Stewart Downing - Pompy - £15M Charlie Adam - Pompey - £5.5M Jay Thomas - Arsenal - £250K Kyle Bartley - Arsenal - £2M Jack Wilshere - Arsenal - £1M Dean Bouzanis - Liverpool - £6M Rafael Forster - Flamengo - £3.5M They were the main pick of the transfers, I may of paid over-the-odds for some of the players, but as i said the squad was in a terrible state, i was trying to buy the best i could. Transfers OUT: Lots of players released/sold, main players were: Beye, Duff, Viduka, Garvan, Ledley, Boyce, Kightly, Koumas, Salder, Edu Draceha, Edgar, Al Ba Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfc25 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Originally posted by lfc25:Just taken over newcastle after the were relagated from the prem in first season. I started off managing Lyon (doing well) saw newcastle in 21st place in the championship with 14 games to go with steve coppell as thier manager, they looked like they were going to get relageted again. Anyway - i quit lyon for them, and won all remaining 14 leagues - which was quite good, as all of the best players had been sold, Owen, Taylor, Martins etc... I was left with Germei, duff, viduka, all on very high wages, losing alot of money each month, Not to mention all of coppells buys - Garvan from ipswich who was on 40K per week, Koumas on 55K per week, Mcfadden on 80K per week. Anyway i managed to finsih 6th on goal differnce, i then went on to beat wolvoes 3-0 on agg in the play-off 1st & 2nd leg, before facing QPR in the play-off final, i lost 1-0 despite controlling the game, my first defeat in charge of newcastle. When i took over, i was given a massive £115M for transfers, however - i could not really sign players of real quilaty, as they were not preperaed to drop down divsions. Luckiy pompy were relagated, I managed to sign Steven tayor Fpr £18M afer coppell sold him to pompy for £11M, bit expensive, but i had to sign him quick as liverpool were intrested. Signed 25players in total, and sold/released most of coppells buys, as there wages were so high. Transfers IN: Steven taylor - pompey - £18M Havarad Nordtveit - WBA - £6M Billy Sharp - Sheff utd - £4M Jack Hobbs - Liverpool - £1.5M Andreas Granqvist - Wigan - £5M Sergio Mota - Sao paulo - £7M Tim Krul - Watford - £3M Stephen Darby - Liverpool - £500K Eduardo Ratinho - C0rinthians - £9M Nick Montgomery - Sheff utd - £2M Rhys Murphy - Arsenal - £5M Stewart Downing - Pompy - £15M Charlie Adam - Pompey - £5.5M Jay Thomas - Arsenal - £250K Kyle Bartley - Arsenal - £2M Jack Wilshere - Arsenal - £1M Dean Bouzanis - Liverpool - £6M Rafael Forster - Flamengo - £3.5M They were the main pick of the transfers, I may of paid over-the-odds for some of the players, but as i said the squad was in a terrible state, i was trying to buy the best i could. Transfers OUT: Lots of players released/sold, main players were: Beye, Duff, Viduka, Garvan, Ledley, Boyce, Kightly, Koumas, Salder, Edu Draceha, Edgar, Al Ba Sorry for doulbe post, it hit the post now button with out finishing my post. Couintued - Transfers out: Al Bangura, Given, & Mcfadden whos going to charlton in january for £7.5M. I had to get rid of them players due to their wages, like given on 60K per week, he was sold to fulham for £1M. Anyway, after a bight start to the season (season three) i have sufferd a blip in form, conceding all the time, and drawing a lot. I play a 442 system, and need some central midfeilders with very good strength, please could anyone recomend any - i know it can bit hard as im 3 seasons in, but the best i could find who would join is Nick Montgomery lol. I have £51M left for transfers, so money not a problem, £625K under the wage budget, now i got rid of the high earners. But i have to qualifer for the euro cup within three season, so the board say, so yeah if anyone could recommend any players/ and/or advise me on tactics - why i conceding to many goals against week teams etc? - could it be the because its a whole new team the need time to gel? Thanks for reading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
13xForever Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 So im going to start Again As Newcastle. i was looking at posts since my last thread and somone had posted Steven Taylor at 25 and his tackling and Marking havent gone up. has anyone got a screen shot of him at maybe 28 or can tell me he will improve? also in my last game kompany was prone to injuries so im looking for a diff CB then him. can somone tell me how they got rid of Duff as i could never offload him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I promised Euro qualification and got 44 million pounds. I bought: Lloris -- 15 million (!) Fernandes -- 11 million Srna -- 9.5 million Baidwhotshisname (The French defender) -- 5 million Samba -- 2 million And that was all my money gone. Scary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabman Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Playing as NUFC without the patch. Got van der vaart, banega and samba. Tried the 442 diamond attacking formation, combined with the 262 theory and it is working a treat. I'm 3rd in my first season behind Man United and Chelsea. Thanks to all those geniuses who pointed me in the right direction. Every single time I score from a corner the goal is disallowed for a foul. Anyone else found this? Is it fixed by the patch? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soli Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Playing as the magpies in the third season and playing without the patch approaching the january transfer market here's my team GK given/enyeama DR faye/geremi DC zapata/vidal DC taylor/samba DL enrique/vidal DM mascherano/barton ML zogbia/aaritalo MR milner/nakamura AMC matias/jimenez FC caroll/martins (both awesome) ST owen/smith where can I improve the team and suggestions Money no object. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinster6 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Originally posted by soli:where can I improve the team and suggestions Money no object. Buy AGUERO its quite simple Also Menez is quality at AML or AMR and if money really is no object, splash out on Akinfeev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcmangoo27 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 After finishing first season 5th plus League Cup, need to buy a decent right-back. Had Belletti on loan for first season, did well, but Chelsea want £5m and he's nearly 32. Got £40 mill to spend but Inter are after Micah Richards and doubt I'd get him plus Daniel Alves already gone... Any ideas? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hajduk Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Hey all Started a game with my 2nd favourite team in EPL. Always made a game with Toon in all Fm`s I consider myself a very skillfull trader After moving players around i got this awsome team together. Also replaced most of the coaches so i got 5x 7 stars etc..etc..got Nanni as Psycho With 5-0-1 im at the top of the table. Using an interesting tactic that i did myself and ofc NOT using corner cheats. Here is the team: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4829/firstteaman2.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hajduk Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Ins: Arashvin, VanDVaart, Pitti, Kalouda, Zapata, Aurelio and Tymouschouk OUT: Viduka, Smith, Tozer, Butt, Enrique, Forster, Duff, Edgar, Ameobi, Zablera, Casapa, Soderberg, Harper, Geremi and a bounch of youngsters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyJoe Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Using an interesting tactic that i did myself and ofc NOT using corner cheats. I think that tactic has come the T&T forums, a very popular thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hajduk Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 its a similar one ..everybody is using something like that nowdays cuz it`s proven itself to be the best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
euanpolo Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 I've been sacked by Ashley after the strangest season ever. I was top of the league unitl February and then got deducted ten points and only won 2 games for the rest of the season. I ended up finishing 15th but I had got into the CL final. I lost 5-2 against spurs on the last day and got sacked by Ashley. A week before the final! To add insult to injury nufc won the cl with eastick. And then when I took over at Palermo Van Nistelrooy turned me down to go to newcastle. Oh, well at least I have Cavani at Palermo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F94 Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Recently started a game with my hearts-fondest Newcastle... As in real life I feel I need a new CB and cover in defence. i can't give away the likes of Geremi and other deadweight. Thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricCOYB Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 nihat is wasted in midfield imo, that and you'd need another centre back but apart from that, your tactics look different at least and they seem to be working well and it's great to see you've got owen firing how much budget have you got left? guessing your on 8.0.2 patch btw? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F94 Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Thanks for the super quick reply. I have 5 mil in Transfers, but I'm hoping to raise another 3-5 in sales in January. I sometimes play Nihat on the right of the three strikers with Barton replacing him in midfield and either Arshavin or Farfan rested, depends from game to game really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowballnufc Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 hey am starting a new game with newcastle (8.0.2) was wondering whos best for me i need a am, cf, cb and a left or right winger i have 49 mil to play with. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crido Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 snowballnufc Get Jefferson Farfan (round about 7m maybe cheaper) for the wing Christopher Samba CB (2million maybe a bit more) Jeremy Menez left wing. van der vaart am definitely. Try for Fred CF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 iv just started a newcastle save and so far i havnt sold anyone and have brought in samba, makoun, defour, jeremy menez and somehow managed to get modric, he rejected chelsea and ac milan now my team is gk: given CB: samba CB: taylor RB: beye LB: enrique CM: makoun CM: defour RM: menez LM: n'zogbia AMC: modric ST: martins or owen any suggestions for my team are taylor and beye good enought o start and who is better owen or martins i have 16 million left and have excess players to sell:smith, butt, ameobi, viduka, cacapa etc thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricCOYB Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Taylor_08 noone is better than owen. i'd advice keeping him upfront on his own for now your team looks good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 was thinkin of selling martins if the right offer comes in and signing a younger player as back up to owen and modric can anyone suggest a right back who would do a better job than beye, or is he good enough for a title challenging team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soli Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Sorry for the silly question but how do you paste screenshots as F94 did above? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabman Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 ok, i'm in my third season as NUFC. playing 442 diamond attacking and enjoying some success... season 1 - finished 3rd season 2 - finished 6th but won league cup my team is good and beats all but the big four. what do i need to do to start challenging for the title? team is... GK - given DR - faye / leyrielton DL - goncalves / enrique DC - samba / david DC - taylor / kaboul DMC - makoun / banega MR - milner ML - modric / nzobgia AMC - van der vaart / aguero FC - owen FC - martins is it just a question of getting better players or can you beat arsenal, utd, chelsea and liverpool by clever tactics? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 it is both, milner in my opinion is not good enough for a title challenge and im not sure if your defence is strong enough. i dont think faye is the best left back and you centre backs arent the quickest. so id sign a good right back and a good right mid i also find that against the big 4 a diamond midfield struggles because its hard to dominate, i tend to play a denfensive mid and 2 centre mids with 2 wingers and a lone striker, iv managed to draw with united, beat liverpool, arsenal and chelsea its easy to beat chelsea, just use the chelsea bug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmcalinden28 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 new gk - gordon, 2 new full backs - vidal as left back (get him on gk for corners as he scores loads!), new mr - kalouda/bellucshi, 2 better fc's - guilherme would be one for me! and hugo almeida. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 iv been offered 11million for jose enrique, is it worth it? also been offered 12million and ever banega for jean makoun and i think i will accept that offer any thoughts? thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i love managing newcastle!!! if you guarantee a title challenge then you cannot fail with the amount of money and players you start with, im just coming towards the end of the first season i win the league cup, although some very hard fought games, needed extra time against bolton, then penalty shootout against reading, won on away goals against arsenal and then went to extra time in the final with man u, but won 3-1 im also in the final of the fa cup, had a very easy run, the only top 8 team iv faced was chelsea and they are easy to beat. im top of the league by 10 points with 5 games left anyone who wants a new game should try newcastle, its impossible to fail Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan377 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Hi People I can't believe how well you are doing with Newcastle so I wanted to try myself. Transfers in: Van Der Vaart Nihat Samba Could anyone recommend more signings and who I should get rid off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 wel i play with a normal back 4, 3 centre mids and 2 wingers a lone striker. at the star of the season i signed makoun, samba, menez, modric, yobo, hoyte(loan) and defour van der vaart is a great centre mid and nihat is great anywhere in attack so i would reccomend signing another defender and hoyte on loan and then try to sign another midfielder or winger depending on funds get rid of: emre, butt, cacapa, carr, ramage then play the likes of n'zogbia and milner and enrique and there price will shoot up, i sold those 3 in january and with only that transfer money i brought in farfan, pasanen, pander and riquelme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_08 Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 this is my current team http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll231/rafa-de-gafa/newcastleseason2.jpg im just goin into season 2 and i have got a tranfer budget of 84 million, where should i strengthen?? thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillyb86 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Originally posted by soulzNUFC:Hi People I can't believe how well you are doing with Newcastle so I wanted to try myself. Transfers in: Van Der Vaart Nihat Samba Could anyone recommend more signings and who I should get rid off. get rid of the high earning fringe players like duff, viduka, emre, butt, ameobi get arshavin and samba Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 So what on earth has happened to Owen? He's scored one goal in 15 games and is averaging 6.46. Martins has 20 goals in the same time. I have a lone striker up front with instructions to play to feet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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