Bower4311

Iv had a £9m bid from Portsmorth for Alan Smith, should I accept or not? Also I've got Riquelme on loan but he's playin poor, whats the best way to play him?

retired_jorezbi

I would sell smith, did nowt for me, won league in season 1 without playing him.

i only got 5m for him at start of season 2.

i have van der vaart but would play riquelme same way in a 442 diamond with riquelme AMC arrows between 2 strikers plus give him playmaker role. barton can play dmc if you still have him

retired_retired

Ok, just finished my first season with Newcastle and to my surprise, I finished 4th to obtain £17.5 million in prize funds. I was also runner up in the FA Cup to Man U, and got to the Semi's of the Milk cup.

PLAYERS IN


PLAYERS OUT

retired_retired

Ok, just finished my first season with Newcastle and to my surprise, I finished 4th to obtain £17.5 million in prize funds. I was also runner up in the FA Cup to Man U, and got to the Semi's of the Milk cup.

PLAYERS IN (pre season)
Bärkroth - £200K
Saivet - £375K
Ignashevich - Free
Piatti - £110K
van der Vaart - £11M
Mezenga - £2.1M
Banega - £2.2M
Modric - £3.8M

PLAYERS IN (Jan)
Ääritalo - £325K
Lupoli - £12M
Alex - £2M

PLAYERS OUT (pre season)
Emre - £3.2M
Pattison - £1M
Owen - £8.25M

PLAYERS OUT (January)
Butt - Free
Viduka - £1M

Van Der Vaart is class and should be played in AMC role of a diamond, the formation invented by Sir Bobby Robson.

Lupoli is also class he scored 17 in 23.

Only downside is my defence, we conceded 56 goals so I have some rebuilding to do.

retired_rockette76

How did you manage to get Saivet? He always turns me down when I try and sign him.

retired_kmorris0201

In my newcastle, I use Martins and Owen + MR + ML on attack, but they lose most of the headers
and I always lose on counter...

Can someone use M + O as forward could post your tac file here ?

Many Thanks!!

retired_haveadaisyday

ok nearly finished my first season with Newcastle
Sitting second in the league on

Won 16
Draw 8
Lost 6

Scored 56 but with 35 against

Memorable games

Arsenal 1 Newcastle 2
Chelsea 1 Newcastle 2
Liverpool 1 Newcastle 23
Newcastle 4 Arsenal 0
Newcastle 2 Liverpool 1

Twice lost to Man Utd

Out of the league cup to Hull

Semi final of the F A Cup to Chelsea

Signings

Klaas Jan Huntelaar 11m
Breno 5.5m ( Jan Window )
Alex 1.9m ( Jan Window )
Harry Kewell ( Loan )
Justin Hoyte ( Loan )
Sergey Ignasevich Free
Carlos Saez 80k
Toni Kroos 45k
Zeefuik Genero 1.7m ( Jan Window )
Eden Hazard 210k
Omar Benzerga 240k
Henri Saivet 350k
John Bostock 170k

OUT

Shola Ameobi 3m
Matty Pattison 925k
Cacapa 500k

My under 18 team have won their league unbeaten all season won every game with John Bostock weighing in with 20 goals from midfield

The board only seem to offer me below average teams to be feeder clubs

retired_jorezbi

Juggers,

very similiar to you, won league with vaart and 442 diamond.

bought barzagli in summer, spent all cash on him + david DC and retrained taylor to RB

not letting in as many season 2, only 5 from 9 games so far, early days yet

Bower4311

I dont know who to play as my best centre backs:

1.Cacapa
2.Rozenthal
3.Breno
4.Taylor
5.Sidnei

retired_rockette76

Ok so I'm looking for a bit of advice. Hopefully somebody can help me

I just finished my first season as Newcastle, and came second in the league. I'll get onto my transfers in and out in a minute. What I'm wanting in response from this post is advice on where I need to revamp my squad, with whom and any other pieces of advice I can find.

Okay so first off, my transfers in and out:

IN:
Niklas Barkroth
Christian Benavente
Alan Kardec
Mika Aaritalo
Mathieu Flamini
Georginio Wijnaldum
Breno
Alex (vasco)
Rafael van der Vaart
David Beckham (free)
Ricardinho (free)

Out:
Mark Viduka
Michael Owen
Alan Smith
Damien Duff
Emre

Transfer Listed (and wont bloody sell, even for free):

Nicky Butt
Cacapa
Celestine Babayaro
Stephen Carr (Might terminate his contract, only 40k compen)


I'm running a 4-4-2 diamon formation with:

GK Given
DR Geremi
DL Jose Enrique
DC Breno
DC Steven Taylor
DMC Joey Barton/Flamini
MR David Beckham/Milner
ML Charles N'Zogbia/Milner
AMC Rafael van der vaart
FC Shola Ameobi/Mika Aaritalo/Alan Kardec
FC Obafemi Martins
S1 Steve Harper
S2 Habib Beye/Abdoulaye Faye
S3 James Milner (rotates around the wingers mostly)
S4 David Rozehnal
S5 Mika Aaritalo(rotates around the strikers)



Now then, I feel like even though I achieved such a good position, the team is quite weak, not to mention AM-heavy.

Can anybody mention any good signings that could seriously bolster my squad and helm consolidate my position aswell as help achieve equivalent or better next season?

Thanks in advance!