FM 2008: Newcastle United

sirj09 · 10-06-2007, 03:08 PM

Full name Newcastle United Football Club
Nickname(s) The Magpies, The Toon, The Toon Army
Founded 1892
Ground St James' Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
Capacity 52,387
Chairman Chris Mort
(for Mike Ashley)

Current Staff
Manager Sam Allardyce
First Team Coach Nigel Pearson
First Team Coach Steve Round
First Team Coach Terry McDermott
Reserve Team Manager Lee Clark
Youth Academy Director Joe Joyce

Current squad
1 GK Shay Given
2 DF Stephen Carr
3 DF José Enrique
4 DF David Rozehnal
5 MF Emre
6 DF Caçapa
7 MF Joey Barton
9 FW Obafemi Martins
10 FW Michael Owen
11 MF Damien Duff
13 GK Steve Harper
14 MF Charles N'Zogbia
16 MF James Milner
17 FW Alan Smith
20 MF Geremi (c)
21 DF Habib Beye
22 MF Nicky Butt
23 FW Shola Ameobi
25 DF Abdoulaye Faye
26 DF Peter Ramage
27 DF Steven Taylor
30 DF David Edgar
33 DF Celestine Babayaro
34 GK Fraser Forster
35 MF Matty Pattison
36 FW Mark Viduka
37 MF James Troisi
39 FW Andy Carroll (Preston N.E. - to January 2008)
40 GK Tim Krul (Falkirk - to 1st January 2008)

Just finished my first pre season

Players signed

Gourcuff - loan
Kewell - £1.9m

Players sold

Pattison - £1m

Starting line up

Martins

Gourcuff

N'Zogbia Emre Milner

Geremi

Enrigue Cacapa Rozenhal Beye

Harper

subs

Viduka
Smith
Kewell
Forster
Talylor

Post any tips or your season updates

DanTheArsenalMan · 10-06-2007, 05:01 PM

Arsenal offered initially 12.5Mil upfront plus 20% of next sale for Martins. I didn`t really want to sell so i negotiated and said i wanted Nordveit and Merida, they accepted, but do you think i should? As i thought they would pull out.

weasel1976 · 10-06-2007, 06:14 PM

Keep Martins - he got me 13 in 19 in the demo - but defintatly recommend taking Denilson on loan.

Also, I got Farfan, and played out of position (centre midfield), and he literaly banged in the goals.

sirj09 · 10-06-2007, 07:17 PM

Keep Martins very good to have up front doesnt score many goals but he has electric pace and creats most of my goals.

DominicForza · 10-06-2007, 07:19 PM

How much did you pay for Farfan?

weasel1976 · 10-07-2007, 11:23 AM

Farfan cost 14,5m€ - and very much worth every penny - although is a little injury prone.

weasel1976 · 10-07-2007, 11:32 AM

Shame the demo is too short, I had negotiated the following as well:
Trecarichi - 1,3m€ - cover for N´Zogbia - would have allowed me to sell Duff
Lulinha - 4,2m€
Alex - 525k€

On top of bringing in (as well as the 2 mentioned above):
Benzarga - 350k€ - allows me to seel Butt
Sidnei - 600k€
Nyatanga - 5m€ - cover for Enrique

Sold Pattison for 1,4m€ - couldn´t get rid of anyone else.
The end of the demo saw me in 9th position, with 9 wins and 5 draws from 20 games) - 5 points from a CL position.

Other players I had lined up included:
Martin Hansen - GK cover
Malul - in order to sell Carr
Breno - in order to sell Rampage

Was then looking at a striker (had regengotiated Martins contract), in order to let Ameobi and poss Viduka go. In my game, Smith was getting more goals than Owen.............