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Season 2 update

League finish

Chelsea ran away witht he league, but I am still happy with our finish as it was possible we would finish outside the top 4! Fortunately we bucked our ideas up and results went our way.

Home form

We still ahven't lost at St' James' Park under my management! Our away form is woeful though - we only collected 25 points all season.

I've left it a bit late to post screenshots, I've now started a new season - sorry!

I got to the semi-final against Juventus where we lost on away goals. Lost to Sprus in the 6th round of the FA cup, and didn't make much headway in the league cup.

Transfers in/out

Jiminez was a revelation, a wonderful player for his price. Kiebling was was disappointing and it was Martins who was banging in the goals again.

Will update on the new season =)

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Just interested in everyone's experiences with Owen?

He banged in the goals last year when we finished 3rd, getting over 25 in the league and is on course to do the same this season (im top and in febraary) but im wondering is it worth cashing in on him maybe in the pre season, getting a big price and not having to pay £100k a week.

Because im thinking as he is getting on a bit his stats might start to drop soon,but i dont want to risk losing him and not finding a replacement who is as good any experiences of those in further seasons would be good.

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I've just started my 3rd season - here are some screenies.

Transfers

Fleck & Sakho look like great prospects, and Akinfeev is world class. His transfer was over 24 months so only paid £10m upfront icon_cool.gif

Squad

Opening Fixtures

Now some screenshots of some players!

Adrien 'could be the next Deco'

I have no doubts he will make it to my first team icon14.gif

Giles Barnes

Guilherme

If anyone has any screenie requests feel free to ask icon_biggrin.gif

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Originally posted by Dan Is The Man:

Jazzfusion: Is Andy Carroll brilliant for you? And what feeder clubs do you have?

He is out on loan in the SPL atm, doesn't look gret for a 20 y/o... lets hope he's a late bloomer icon_biggrin.gif I'll post a SS when I get back from work.

As for feeder clubs, I have one in China that was there originally + Hartlepool, Bristol City and an SPL team I think.

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Originally posted by toma:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Is Andy Carroll brilliant for you?

i cannot get carroll to hit a barn door

still no goals frpm him

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW BEST TO PLAY HIM ON NEW PATCH </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I would assume as a target man, to head.

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Hi all, new to this forum

Just starting my 4th season (8.0.1) patch

Starting team as follows:

Given

Richards

Breno

Taylor

Bale

Milner

Makoun

Fernandez

Barnes

Martins/Balotelli

Vela

Subs

Krul

Geremi

Enrique

Muamba

Smith

Rozenhal

Iago

Thiago

Ive finished 3rd/5th/3rd. Looking to push on and win the bloody prem! Got 30m to spend with a massive amount of spare wage, but seem to be on the limit of not going into the red by seasons end.

Not sure whats needed although squad does feel light. Hoping vela and balotelli will up the goal count this season, fernandez was top scorer.

Any constructive criticism/suggestions welcome! Happy to provide more detail/history

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I normally go between a 442 attacking or Defensive depending on how my match is going. with Piatti and Milner using the rings. Nzogbia normall come son for Piatti at Half time and stancu normally comes on For Owen.

Martins is up with Stancu and are both my top scorers.

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Season 3 report

Hi guys. Just finished my 3rd season with Newcastle, all in all very successful.

Home page

Won the Premiership with relative ease, and brushed Chelsea aside in the Champions League final 3-1. Screenies to follow...

A domestic cup still eludes me, will try to capture one next season!

Squad

Guilherme was brilliant, his avg rating does not reflect this. Scores very very important goals!

Transfers in/out

I bought in a few players for the future!

Premier league

Finally captured it, and it was easy icon_cool.gif No one kept pace with us all season.

Champions League final

Glad to win it, made us alot of money also icon_cool.gif Had an epic 5-5 aggregate win in the semis over Man United.

Hope to bring in a few players for the new season and win a domestic cup. Will also give youth a chance.

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well i've just won the quadruple with newcastle in my 3rd season and i've just signed bojan on a free transfer

dont sell owen, never sell owen, scored 30 goals every season

footballer of the year, won every trophy possible.

i kept martins for the 1st season, then sold him for 25 million, and signed aguero

best player to sign at the start:

matias fernandez

played 30, scored 14, assisted 18.

bought him for 7.5 with a 50% next sale clause, not gonna sell him anyway

just click on the counter attack button and youll win most games icon_biggrin.gif

easy as pie.

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Newcastle in fm08 i think is bugged. My cousin and me played Newcastle as so are my many friends who are Newcastle fans. Newcastle defence LETS ALMOST ANYTHING IN. But there is anything about newcastle is that, they always score regardless of what. anyone have the same thing? My newcastle team always score alot in a game but conceded alot too.. still remember my unforgettable victory over arsenal 5-3 at emirates stadium ( AGG 8-6 , lost 3-2 at st james park ) lmao.

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after trying some games with Napoli and Athletic, i've decided to start again as my favourite team NEWCASTLE UNITED icon_wink.gif just wish me luck...

Transfers in:

Samba - 2.4m Euro icon_smile.gif

Arshavin - 12,25m

Omozusi - 3.5m

Mihelic - 250k

Piatti - 150k

Andronic - 55k

Zhirkov - 11m

shame that nobody wants to buy my players like butt, geremi, carr, viduka...

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First season 24 games gone 7th in the league 10pts clear of 8th place. Bought in a few players: Coloccini, Lescott, Barnes, Ferreira, Elmander, Aouate, Vagner Love and Kevin Nolan. My best 11 is:

Aouate

Ferreira Coloccini Lescott Enrique

Barnes Nolan Barton NZogbia

Owen Elmander

Just want a new left back and right back in the summer and wish people would sod off keep enquring about NZogbia

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i've started new game because i've decided to load highest leagues from italy, spain and germany icon_wink.gif

so my transfers changed:

IN:

Zhirkov - 11m Euro

Nolan - 16m

Samba - 2,5m

Barnes - 13m

Omozusi - 3,5m

Adrien - 2m

Piatti - 200k

OUT:

only Troisi for 190k +40% next sale

after 9 games i'm in 4th place icon_smile.gif Owen playing crap, but N'Zog and Martins are fb icon_smile.gif more to come icon_smile.gif

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With 6 games to go in second season i'm sitting top of the prem with Man Utd 6 points behind.

Playing Man Utd in the FA cup final too. Got knocked out of the CL at quarters by barca on away goals.

I think i need another top class striker to rotate with owen, fred and defoe cause owen is struggling a bit with inconsistancy, i might even offload if i get a good enough offer.

Any suggestions who would play well alongside Fred as a main striker.

I play a narrow diamond with fernandez behind the front 2, so lots of through balls

I've got Saivet waiting in the wings but i'm going to give him another season on loan i think.

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Steven taylor is the sickest defender i've ever managed. Never played newcastle before and didn't know too much about him but he's a champ!

first season he scored 20 goals, 15 of them in the league, and thats from his DC position.

Second season just stared and he's scored 7 goals from 5 games.

Anyone else got this kid scoring like crazy too?

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DRAGO LT

Good move on getting Samba in, i got him straight away, (only cost me £800k tho!) and he's ace. Cracking buy, not happy at the end of the 1st season when i wouldn't let him join Juventus but now the 2nd season's up and running he's happy again

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I'm in my second season as Newcastle manager. Got 4th in my first season, but have been struggling this season, although I'm in good form at the moment. Played Chelsea in the Carling Cup semifinal. Bad defence, but check out my backup striker Michael Owen (Bought Pazzini and he has been immense, and only playing with one striker.)

Pazzini was injured for this match, but who cares when Owen do this:

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Originally posted by Pozzati:

I'm in my second season as Newcastle manager. Got 4th in my first season, but have been struggling this season, although I'm in good form at the moment. Played Chelsea in the Carling Cup semifinal. Bad defence, but check out my backup striker Michael Owen (Bought Pazzini and he has been immense, and only playing with one striker.)

Pazzini was injured for this match, but who cares when Owen do this:

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Omfg I'm totally buying Owen for my team xD

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I'd rather win 4-0 than 8-4 because of the 4 away goals, but hey... Couldn't believe Chelsea was doing the same mistakes over and over again. Owen was alone with the keeper all the time. Should actually have knocked home a couple more goals :p But can't say I'm disappointed icon_wink.gif

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Hi, its my first season with newcastle and i finished 3rd, scored 87 but conceeded 65 and came second in the Fa cup to chelsea

Here is my team

Given

Ignashevich Faye Taylor Enrique

Makoun

Milner V.Der Vaart Farfan

Owen Martins

Subs: Leonardo, Defoe, Banega, Geremi, Viduka

I sold smith to portsmouth for 9 mil and i am thinking about selling geremi as in one season he made 19 mistakes 16 of them leading to goals, that's why im playing ignashevich!

Any recommendations for strong defenders, a right winger and goal keeper and anyone else as i have nearly 30 million from winnings and selling players

Cheers!

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