retired_tdub81

Doing very well in my first newcastle season

Signed

Defoe = 6m
E.Johnson = 2.6m
Guti = free
Farfan = 6m
Luis Fabiano = 7th time trying for wp

Out

Viduka = 2m
Beye = 3.4m
Ameobi = 4m
Carr = free

Which First Team Players Offer Good Experience To The Youngster ( especially lualua )

mats sundin

How on earth did you get rid of Viduka/Ameobi ? No one wanted them when I tried

jaden

Coventry bought Ameobi, and West Ham bought Viduka, on the second season

my current team, at 2010/2011 is:

Given

Rafinha/Vanden Borre
Alex/Bouhlarouz
Mertesacker/Burdisso
Criscito/Antunes

Milner/Gouffran
Mikel/Cahill
Miguel Veloso/Alou Diarra
Downing/Morais

Owen/Ashton
Benzema/Doyle

corporate666

My Newcastle side Dec 09 currently 4th in prem

Goalkeepers

Shay Given
Tim Krul
Shane Supple
Wang Dalei

Defenders

Abdoulaye Faye
Eduardo (should be a wonder kid )
Christophe Berra
Darijo Srna
Billy Jones
Habib Beye
Steven Smith
Dorian Dervite

Midfield

Charles N'Zobia
Nigel de Jong
Claudio Maldonado
Micheal Johnson (wonder kid)
Micheal Knightly
James Milner
Luka Modric
Jorge Valdivia

Strikers

Alan Smith
Daniel Sturridge (wonder kid)
Andy Carroll (wonder kid)
Ikechukwu Uche

Starting Line up

GK- Shay Given
RB- Darijo Srna
LB- Eduardo
CB- Abdoulaye Faye (cpt)
CB- Christophe Berra
MR- James Milner
ML- Charles N'Zogbia
MC- Micheal Johnson
MC- Nigel de Jong
FC- Andy Carrroll/ Daniel Sturridge
FC- Ikechukwu Uche/ Alan Smith

The board accepted bids of £21 mill for Owen, £12 mill for Taylor (was cpt at the time ) and £14 mill for Enrique.

I manually sold Viduka, Duff, Rozenhal, Barton, Geremi, Emre and Ameobi to reduce wage costs and rid the team of players that didn't want to play for me.

mats sundin

Arsenal lost to Villa, drew to Reading, West Ham and the mackems and ended up slipping into 5th!

That left me and Everton to fight out for 4th and 3rd. Everton had a harder run than me and ended up drawing to chelsea, and then losing to Villa to give us both the same points. Our superior goal differnce however settled it and my final position after the first season is:

3rd !!!!!!!

That is straight into the Champions League proper, automatic qualification


In other news I have managed to sign Riquelme on a free, but lost out to liverfool for masherano

I am however now preparing for my assault to next season. I am going to have to tweak the tactic some more (Thinking of playing with 2 DM instead of 2CM to see if that has an effect) in order to stop me conceding a shed load.

My bank balance is now £17 million, so its going to be another scrimping season - but if I can rid of 3-4 of my more over rated players (Owen, Cacapa, Rozey etc) I may be able to get some proper players for the future here

I also want to replace pearson... he has had a good season - but its more to do with the fact that he is a dick

First I might sleep though.

retired_shireyja

season 3 now with newcastle, finished 2nd first season, then due to uefa cup and injuries i only managed 10th in season 2

squad for season three is currently

Shay Given
Colin Doyle (2.5 From West Brom)

Habib Beye
Jose Enrique
Steven Taylor
Abou Faye
Cacapa (Vice Captain)
David Rozehnal
Geremi

Charles N'Zogbia
Nicky Butt
Joey Barton (Captain)
Emre
Denilson (6.5 from Arsenal)
James Milner
Kazenga LuaLua
Chris Eagles (Loan then 950k from Man Utd)
Iago (Loan from Barcelona)

Henri Saviet (7.5 from Bordeaux)
Alan Smith
Obafemi Martins
Mark Viduka
Michael Owen
Andy Carroll

8th after 12 games currently

skiking

Since when is 3rd automatic qualification?

mats sundin

lol, oops

retired_rockette76

I've seen some of you guys with less than 650k/week wages total. How did you guys manage to cut down the wage bill so drastically?

I remember on FM 2007 I managed to get people on 65k/week down to 30k/week but I cant remember how I managed it. Do any of you guys know? I realise it's probably not THAT big of a deal, but I like to have as small a wage bill as possible. More funds and all that

Also, The last couple of times I've played a new game on FM2008 (with the beta patch if that makes a diff) I've been completely throwing away the friendly games. I'm losing 3-0, 1-0 to teams I didnt even know existed. Does anybody have an idea of what could be causing such a massive impact on my players that they lose in such games? I realise I'm not really giving any possibilities but I honestly have no idea what could be doing it. Whenever I start a game I immediately sack all of my coaches and replace them with 7star coaches (Obscure/regional/National) as low as I can get them. Is this doing it do you think? If it is, can anybody suggest any other ways I could get 7 star coaches which wouldnt have said impact?

Thank you in advance!

retired_sonu

Hey guys

In my first season i finished 1st with Spurs coming second, However, my second season was an absolute disaster, i bought Robbie Keane and it transpired that Given, Keane, Aguero (who i purchased at the end of 1st season), geremi and ameobi all disliked Owen!!!

Then owen started to publicly state his desire to leave for a bigger club even though we had won the prem and were in the qtr finals of Champions League.

The chairman had accepted an offer at the end of the 1st season for Martins from Roma.

So i ended up losing in the semis to Roma in champions league, finishing a dissapointing 4th in second season and capitulating in the fa cup final 4-0 to chelsea.

The only weay out was to sack owen, as soon as i did that, we mounted a good run and finished 4th. but what a depressing season.