Newcastle Story

[smeats10]

I'm fairly new to FM, i've barely been playing it a year but i'm already hooked, and as a fan of the club, i decided to have a second stab at managing newcastle, taking a bit more experience into it. the club have made a few coaching additions bringing in former coach John Carver, and, because, although i was born in newcastle, i moved to cheshire at a young age and i went to the same school dean ashton did so i've brought him to the coaching staff. as far as players go i have removed some of the less hopefull youth players such as Darren Lough, Shane Fergerson, and Frank Wiafe - Danquah for around £40K each, however, i managed to bring in £1.5m for Tamas Kadar, i've also loaned out Nile Ranger, and Kazenga Lua Lua. Players i've brought in are Sol Campbell on a free, Cameron Jerome, Fabio, And Emiliano Insua all on loan, i regret signing two left backs, but that's just another lack of experience. Also, i signed Claudio Lopez from Kansas City for £300k, him and Andy Carroll have been dynamite so far this season. Pre - season went well with Ameobi banging them in, but when the season started, his performances where poor, and was dropped to the bench. so the season started well and went a little bit like this:

August 09

West Brom 1 - 4 Newcastle - Nolan, Smith, Jonas, Carroll
Newcastle 0 - 0 Reading
Newcastle 4 - 1 Sheff Wed - Lopez, Nolan, Smith, Pancake
Crystal Palace 1 - 4 - Newcastle - Carroll (3), Lopez
(LC 2nd) Newcastle 2 - 0 Rochdale - Lopez, Carroll
Newcastle 5 - 1 Leicester - Carroll (3), Lopez, Jonas

September 09

Cardiff 1 - 0 Newcastle
Blackpool 2 - 4 Newcastle - Lopez, Pancake, Carroll (2)

I also managed to secure manager of the month for August and despite the odd blip, i think we've done well this so far this season and we're top of the leauge by one point.

i shall be updating this threas regularly and i hope you enjoy ^^)