One City, One Club, One Love - A Newcastle United Story

[Brane_Orsou]

Great start to the season!

 

[Klippybo]

STEVE HARPER
Goalkeeper
1993-2013
187 apps, 0 goals

Did You Know? Harper is actually a qualified referee!

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NOVEMBER

UEFA Champions League Group D
v

AS Monaco 0
Newcastle United 4 (Merino 35, 63, Upamecano og45, Tielemans 76)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlackm Jedvaj, Lascelles (Chilwell), Tierney, Tielemans, Merino*, D'Amico, Lanzini, Murphy (Orsolini), Dembele (Soumare)

Another fantastic convincing victory. I don't know what Merino is on as in 4 seasons he has 14 goals for me but already this season he is on 6 goals!

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v
Newcastle United 2 (D'Amico 59, Merino 90)
Bournemouth 1 (Berahino 45)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino*, D'Amico, Lanzini (Xadas), Murphy, Dembele (Soumare)

MIKEL MERINO!!!! He struck from 35 yards, in off the bar, to give us the 3pts after a fairly average performance.

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v

Liverpool 2 (Bruma 67, Van Ginkel 89)
Newcastle United 4 (Xadas 19, D'Amico 50, Soumare 56, 81)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino (Henry), D'Amico* (Orsolini), Xadas, Sane, Soumare

Any win away at Liverpool is a good win but to score 4 times makes everyone sit up and take notice of just how well we are playing.

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UEFA Champions League Group D
v

Feyenoord 1 (Van Straaten 55)
Newcastle United 2 (Murphy 44, Dembele 61)

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg, Chilwell, Farrell, R.Sessegnon, Zuparic, Henry*, Orsolini, Xadas (Hunt), Murphy, Dembele (Wharton)

This hard fought win secures qualification and leaves Feyenoord pointless.

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v
Newcastle United 4 (Soumare 3, Merino 35, Xadas 54, Jeffrey og87)
Barnsley 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino*, D'Amico, Lanzini (Xadas), Sane (Murphy), Soumare

This makes it 5 times already in the league that we have scored 4 and that's not including the 2 times we have scored 5. As for the cups........

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SUMMARY

The way things are going it makes me think that this might be a very special season. We are still unbeaten in all competitions, scoring tons of goals and really looking strong. In the league we have already opened up a decent gap over 2nd place Man Utd of 5pts.

Individually D'Amico has been tipped for the World Player of the Year as his performances and stats is just mind boggling. Soumare and Dembele are scoring when picked while Mikel Merino has decided that he wants to step up several levels as he is scoring regularly and has been rewarded with his first caps for Spain.

As an aside - Jose Henry is developing so well that he might be close to edging out Tielemans!!!!

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
MIKEL MERINO
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LEAGUE TABLE
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FRANCE

FIFA World Cup Qualifier Group 9

v
France 4 (Umtiti 46, 90, Pogba 49, Rabiot 51)
Israel 0

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe (Zouma), Upamecano, Umtiti*, Digne, Rabiot, Pogba, Coman, Aouar, Lemar (Martial), Mbappe (M.Dembele)

We weren't at the races in the 1st half but after a good bollocking we scored 3 in 5 minutes. This win secures qualification for the World Cup.

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FIFA World Cup Qualifier Group 9
v

Northern Ireland 0
France 5 (Lemar 13, Mbappe 25, 38, 62, O.Dembele 43)

Lineup - Areola, Fuchs, Varane (Laporte), Umtiti, Kimpembe, Rabiot (Bakayoko), Kante, O.Dembele, Tolisso, Lemar (M.Dembele), Mbappe*
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[Klippybo]

JOE HARVEY
Defender
1945-53
247 apps, 12 goals
Manager of the club 1962-75

Did You Know? Harvey won the FA Cup twice as a player and also managed the club to the Fairs Cup win in 1969

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DECEMBER

v

Manchester City 0
Newcastle United 1 (Murphy 48)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack*, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino, D'Amico (Murphy), Xadas (Henry), Sane, Soumaremm

Another fantastic win as we open up a 13pt gap over 3rd place Man City. They had more than double our attempts at goal but we struck the opener when sub Jacob Murphy headed in at the back post.

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UEFA Champions League Group D

v
Newcastle United 3 (Murphy 42, 64, Xadas 90)
Benfica 1 (Gomes 90)

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg (Bradford), Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic, Henry, Orsolini (R.Sessegnon), Xadas, Murphy*, Dembele (Wharton)

A fine way to end the group stage. Benfica's draw against us in our last meeting was the only game in which we dropped points. That's 30 games unbeaten and this was also our first game in our newly revamped stadium as St.James Park now holds 60,000.

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v
Newcastle United 2 (Jedvaj 14, Henry 42)
Hull City 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj*, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, Murphy, Henry, Sane (R.Sessegnon), Soumare (Dembele)

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Carabao Cup Quarter-Final

v
Newcastle United 1 (Dembele 81)
Stoke City 1 (Fassnacht 64)
(AET - Newcastle United win 4-3 on penalties)

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg, Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic, Henry, Orsolini (R.Sessegnon), Xadas (Dodds), Murphy, Dembele

Not our greatest performance by any means but we are through and that's the main thing.

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v
Newcastle United 3 (D'Amico 10, Henry 14, 45)
Chelsea 1 (Asensio 75)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles (Farrell), Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Henry*, Sane (Orsolini), Dembele (Soumare)

Another fixture which on paper I think there is a chance that we could struggle and lose for the 1st time this season but yet again we were a cut above as Jose Henry inspired us to victory.

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v

Tottenham Hotspur 0
Newcastle United 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino, D'Amico, Henry (Soumare), Sane, Dembele (Pellegri)

We draw for only the 2nd time in the league this season and fail to score for the 1st time but crucially we welcomed back Pietro Pellegri here after breaking his leg. We only had 3 shots to their 13 yet Hugo Lloris won the MoM award!

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v
Newcastle United 3 (Sane 17, Soumare 20, St. Juste og43)
West Bromwich Albion 1 (Sancho 9pen)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles (Farrell), Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Henry (Zuparic), Sane*, Soumare (Pellegri)

We suffered an early setback but fought back to get a comfortable victory.

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v

Manchester United 1 (Mata 68)
Newcastle United 1 (D'Amico 90)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Henry (Lanzini), Sane, Soumare (Pellegri)

GET IN!!!!! We salvaged a draw and protected our 100% record with D'Amico's 96th minute goal despite there only being 4min of added time signalled.

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SUMMARY

We end the year 11pts clear (Man Utd have 2 games in hand) and unbeaten in the league and on a run of a 36 game unbeaten run - this season just keeps getting better.

There isn't any negatives from this month. From the return from injury to Pellegri to Jose Henry taking his chance in the 1st team but mainly the results as we defeated Man City and Chelsea and drew with Spurs and Man Utd.

In the cups we will play Napoli in the Champions League, Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup, Leicester in the Carabao Cup and in the World Cup my French side will face Italy, South Korea and Mali.

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
JOSE HENRY
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LEAGUE TABLE
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[Klippybo]

ROBERT LEE
Midfielder
1992-2002
368 apps, 56 goals
Signed from Charlton Athletic for £700,000
Sold to Derby County for £250,000

Did You Know? In a UEFA Cup tie in the early 90s against Antwerp, Lee scored a hat-trick of headers!

[video=youtube;cO-gspW7ad4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-gspW7ad4[/video]

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JANUARY

v
Newcastle United 3 (D'Amico 2, Sane 6, Pellegri 90)
Leicester City 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj (Chilwell), Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico*, Lanzini (Xadas), Sane, Dembele (Pellegri)

Our first of 3 meetings with Leicester this month went quite well. Nice to see Pellegri get on the scoresheet again.

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v

Reading 0
Newcastle United 1 (Dembele 23)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane (Murphy), Dembele*

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FA Cup 3rd Round

v
Newcastle United 3 (Orsolini 4, Pellegri 7, Zuparic 11)
Accrington Stanley 1 (Cashman 47)

Lineup - Arensoe, Bradford, Farrell (Nagai), Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic*, Dodds (Charlton), Orsolini, Xadas, Murphy (R.Sessegnon), Pellegri

Quite disappointed that we didn't add to our 3 early goals as I thought we could have scored double that against the non league side but hey ho.

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Carabao Cup Semi-Final 1st Leg

v
Newcastle United 5 (Murphy 5, 45, Soumare 9, 29, Merino 14)
Leicester City 2 (Merino og32, Silva 40)

Lineup - Arensoe, Passlack (Bradford), Jedvaj, Phungwayo, Chilwell (R.Sessegnon), Zuparic (Dodds), Merino, Orsolini, Xadas, Murphy*, Soumare

I decided to play a half and half side - half backups and half first team and they did a good job although the 2 goals conceded is a bit of a ****** lol.

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v
Newcastle United 5 (Sane 3, 43, D'Amico 7, 50, Dembele 20)
West Ham United 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane*, Dembele

Not for the 1st time this season we have a near perfect performance. I couldn't even sub anyone as nobody deserved to come off.

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v

Everton 2 (Sigurdsson 68, Schneiderlin 90)
Newcastle United 3 (Sane 53, Tielemans 63pen, Pellegri 70)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini (Soumare), Sane, Dembele (Pellegri)

We were not great here but to say that when we score 3 away goals at Everton shows how far we have come. Oh and we are still unbeaten (42 game run) in all comps this season!

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v

Arsenal 1 (Belotti 90)
Newcastle United 4 (Pellegri 4, 8, 90, Sane 45)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino (Henry), D'Amico, Lanzini (Soumare), Sane, Pellegri*

WOW!!! Pellegri made his 1st league start of the season and showed everyone what they were missing as he got a hat-trick. 4-1 win away at Arsenal? Scary biscuits!!!

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Carabao Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg
v

Leicester City 2 (Iheanacho 63, Vieira 87)
Newcastle United 2 (Soumare 83, 90)
(Agg: 4-7)

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg (Bradford), Phungwayo, Lascelles, Chilwell, Zuparic, Dodds (Charlton), Orsolini, Henry, Murphy (R.Sessegnon), Soumare*

SOUMARE!!! We were deep into injury time with our unbeaten run in severe danger when Soumare pounced for his 2nd and to rescue a draw. Into the final we go.

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FA Cup 4th Round

v
Newcastle United 4 (Pellegri 9, 43, 60, D'Amico 19)
Liverpool 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino (Henry), D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane, Pellegri*

That's 2 hat-tricks in 2 games for Pellegri. His 5 month lay off hasn't halted him at all. Oh and beating Liverpool 4-0 isn't bad either lol.

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SUMMARY

This season keeps on getting crazier and crazier. We are still unbeaten in all comps and we are putting in some amazing performances from beating Liverpool 4-0 in the cup and best of all winning 4-1 away in the league against Arsenal.

Pietro Pellegri has come back and he is on fire! In 5 games this month, including sub appearances, he scored 9 goals and he is looking like the injury didn't effect him.

In the cups we reached the Carabao Cup final and will play Chelsea while in the FA Cup we will play Ipswich or Peterborough.

Finally in the transfer window I had one pre-arranged transfer to bring in Thami Mthembu from Sundowns for £250,000 and because he hasn't got a work permit he is off to Nimes.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
PIETRO PELLEGRI
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LEAGUE TABLE
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[Klippybo]

HUGHIE GALLACHER
Forward
1925-30
174 apps, 143 goals
Signed from Airdrieonians for £6,500
Sold to Chelsea for £25,000

Did You Know? Gallacher tragically died in the 1950s when he stepped in front of an oncoming train.

FEBRUARY

v
Newcastle United 3 (Pellegri 15, Tielemans 34pen, Dembele 90)
Burnley 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans*, Merino (Henry), D'Amico (Murphy), Lanzini, Sane, Pellegri (Dembele)

Dembele came off the bench to make his 100th league appearance for us and he duly grabbed his 65th league goal. Not bad.

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v

Stoke City 0
Newcastle United 3 (Sane 53, Pellegri 57, Tielemans 65pen)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack*, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane (Soumare), Pellegri (Dembele)

A fine victory and it could have been by more as we had an early goal disallowed. Sane got his 10th league goal of the season and picked up £1.2m for his troubles lol.

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v
Newcastle United 1 (D'Amico 18)
Southampton 1 (Borja 86)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino (Henry), D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane (Murphy), Pellegri (Dembele)

Southampton held us earlier in the season and they did it again here with their late equaliser and that allowed Man Utd to move to only 2pts behind us.

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UEFA Champions League 1st Round 1st Leg
v

Napoli 3 (Insigne 36, Zielinski 53, Soriano 66)
Newcastle United 3 (Pellegri 37, D'Amico 63, Jedvaj 87)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico*, Lanzini (Henry), Sane (Soumare), Pellegri

What a game this was! Our unbeaten run for this season looked over as we missed a penalty late on but Jedvaj scored a scrappy goal right near the end to make it 49 games unbeaten.

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FA Cup 5th Round
v

Ipswich Town 0

Newcastle United 1 (Xadas 71pen)​

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg (Bradford), Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic, Henry (Charlton), Orsolini, Xadas*, Murphy, Soumare

A truly awful performance but at least we are through.

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v

Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 (Afobe 32, 83)
Newcastle United 3 (Tielemans 31pen, D'Amico 43, Soumare 80)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini (Henry), Sane (Murphy), Pellegri (Soumare)

A win but at a cost as Lanzini got injured and will miss the Carabao Cup final.

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Carabao Cup Final
v

Chelsea 3 (Novo 8, Essien 19, 29)
Newcastle United 4 (Sane 5, 48, Pellegri 33, 41)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino, D'Amico, Xadas (Henry), Sane*, Pellegri

What a final this was!!! We took the lead early doors but was quickly pegged back and then we went 3-1 down and all was gloomy but Pellegri struck twice to amazingly level it at 3-3 at half-time. The 2nd half was a quiet affair but Sane struck early on and we held on to win the cup.

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SUMMARY

Another month and another month unbeaten amazingly as our streak goes on and goes on. In the league it is still just us and Man Utd at the top with 3pts separating us. You would think that with us being unbeaten we would have a far more healthy lead but it isn't so.

In the cups we just avoided defeat away to Napoli to set us up for a decent chance of going through in the Champions League and in the FA Cup we just squeaked past Ipswich to face Southampton in the quarters.

We won the Carabao Cup for the 3rd time by coming out on top in a seven goal thriller against Chelsea. We took the lead but then went 2 behind before clawing ourselves back and getting the winner.

On to March!

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
FELICE D'AMICO
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LEAGUE TABLE
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[Mr_Grieves]

Who or what is in Man Utd's defense. Only let in 8 goals in 28 games!

 

[Klippybo]

WILLIE MCFAUL
Goalkeeper
1966-75
355 apps, 0 goals
Manager of Newcastle from 1985-88

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MARCH

v
Newcastle United 3 (D'Amico 52, Soumare 61, Sane 76)
Huddersfield Town 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Xadas, Sane*, Dembele (Soumare)

We were told beforehand that we had qualified for next seasons Champions League and I have a budget of just over £50m apparently. That's for the future though - we won easily here.

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UEFA Champions League 1st Round 2nd Leg

v
Newcastle United 4 (Pellegri 3, Sane 59, Henry 71, Zuparic 83)
Napoli 0
(Agg: 7-3)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles (Chilwell), Tierney, Tielemans (Henry), Merino, D'Amico, Xadas (Zuparic), Sane*, Pellegri

Napoli's best chance was always going to be the 1st leg and we absolutely steamrollered them here as we put 4 past them. 54 games unbeaten now.

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v

Bournemouth 1 (Elyounoussi 90)
Newcastle United 1 (Xadas 44)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Xadas (Murphy), Sane, Soumare (Pellegri)

AAGGHH!!! We definitely don't like playing teams from the south coast as Bournemouth deny us like Southampton has done twice. Southampton in the cup up next........

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FA Cup Quarter-Final
v

Southampton 2 (Lemina 43, Farrell og83)
Newcastle United 3 (Dembele 2, 110, Murphy 6)
AET

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles (Farrell), Tierney, Tielemans, Merino (Zuparic), Murphy, Henry*, Sane (Orsolini), Dembele

I didn't know quarter-finals went into extra-time but I am glad it did as finally we managed to get one over Southampton this season.

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SUMMARY

This was a fairly quiet month I suppose with only 4 games but they were key. We got a win and a draw in the league to end the month 4pts clear with 8 games to go so its all looking good.

In the FA Cup we just beat Southampton and will face Leicester in the semis for the 2nd time this season. We defeated Napoli in the Champions League and have a nightmare tie against Real Madrid in the quarter final.

In our youth intake we got a couple of decent players with the best one coming from my feeder side GNK Dinamo of Croatia.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
LEROY SANE
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LEAGUE TABLE
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FRANCE

Friendly

v
France 3 (Griezmann 41, M.Dembele 53, Bakayoko 76)
Russia 0

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane (Laporte), Upamecano, Hernandez*, Tolisso, Pogba (Bakayoko), O.Dembele (Coman), Griezmann (Rabiot), Lemar (Martial), Mbappe (M.Dembele)

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Friendly

v
France 1 (Pogba 14)
Switzerland 1 (Rodriguez 10pen)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane (Pavard), Upamecano (Laporte), Hernandez, Kante, Pogba*(Bakayoko), Coman, Griezmann (Malcom), Lemar (Martial), Mbappe (M.Dembele)

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[Klippybo]

Who or what is in Man Utd's defense. Only let in 8 goals in 28 games!

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[coolmcool]

Did you see that Monaco signed Pellegri yesterday? Worlds most expensive 16 year old!

 

[Klippybo]

FRANK BRENNAN
Defender
1946-56
347 apps, 3 goals

Did You Know? Brennan won the FA Cup with Newcastle in 1951 and 1952.

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APRIL

v

Barnsley 0
Newcastle United 1 (D'Amico 63)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles*, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic), Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane (Orsolini), Pellegri (Dembele)

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UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg
v

Real Madrid 5 (Ronaldo 27, 84, Vinicius Junior 35, 45, Kroos 38)
Newcastle United 4 (Tielemans 8, Pellegri 16, 76, Lanzini 33)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino (Henry), D'Amico (Orsolini), Lanzini, Sane, Pellegri

OUR FIRST DEFEAT OF THE SEASON!!!!!

This defeat is so hard to take but at the same time I am not too disappointed. The bad side was the fact we threw away a 2 goal lead twice but on the good side we got 4 away goals and considering Real had 30 shots to our 6 I am just glad to still be in with a great chance of qualifying.

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UEFA Champions League Quarter-Final 2nd Leg

v
Newcastle United 2 (Tielemans 30, Henry 89)
Real Madrid 1 (Kroos 7)
(Agg: 6-6 - Newcastle United win on away goals)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico*, Lanzini (Henry), Sane (Dembele), Pellegri (Soumare)

JOSE HENRY I LOVE YOU!!!! The 20y/o Belgian wonderkid came off the bench to strike at the death to send us through. We fell behind to an absolute screamer from Kroos but quickly levelled when Soumare set up Tielemans. The 2nd half was a quiet affair until Henry had his moment.

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v

Hull City 0
Newcastle United 1 (Zuparic 72)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans (Zuparic*), Merino (Henry), D'Amico, Lanzini, Sane, Dembele (Soumare)

A truly terrible performance and it took Zuparic who only came on with 20min to go to score the goal and also collect the MoM award. We need to up our game for our next league fixtures.

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v
Newcastle United 1 (D'Amico 90)
Manchester City 1 (Gabriel Jesus 40)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Zuparic, D'Amico, Lanzini (Henry), Sane (Murphy), Dembele (Soumare)

Our lead is reduced to 2pts but I will take the point as we were down to 10 men in the end as I had made my 3 subs and then Soumare went off injured. Still unbeaten in the league though!

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FA Cup Semi-Final
v

Leicester City 1 (Gray 17)
Newcastle United 1 (Dembele 23pen)
(AET - Newcastle United win 4-3 on penalties)

Lineup - Arensoe, Sandberg, Farrell (Hunt), Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic (Charlton), Henry, Orsolini, Lanzini, Murphy (R.Sessegnon), Dembele

I took a risk and played a weakened side here and it just about paid off as we sneaked the win on penalties to reach our first FA Cup final.

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UEFA Champions League Semi-Final 1st Leg​

v
Newcastle United 4 (Dembele 13, 30, 48, 51)
AS Monaco 2 (Traore 63, Moreno 87)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Henry, D'Amico, Lanzini (Hunt), Sane (Orsolini), Dembele*

For the 2nd time this season Moussa Dembele scores 4 past Monaco and that has us with one foot in the final. Their 2 away goals could be a difference though.

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v

Chelsea 2 (Morata 22, Hazard 33)
Newcastle United 3 (Henry 79, Pellegri 83, D'Amico 85)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Henry*, D'Amico, Lanzini (Hunt), Sane, Dembele (Pellegri)

WHAT A COMEBACK!!!!

We were 2 down and completely out of it but in the final 10min we just blew Chelsea away and scored 3 goals and also had one disallowed! This result gives us a huge boost for the league title.

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SUMMARY

The penultimate month of the season saw us suffer defeat for the 1st time as we lost 5-4 to Real Madrid in the Champions League but it was ok in the end as we knocked them out on away goals to reach the semis where we are 4-2 up after the first leg over Monaco.

Domestically we reached the FA Cup final for the 1st time after defeating Leicester on penalties and we will face Man Utd in the final. In the league we had a few dodgy performances and just scraped the results in truth but we are still unbeaten and we ended the month with a fantastic comeback victory over Chelsea.

Next month we may have a Champions League final, we have an FA Cup final, a league decider against Man Utd and I have to pick my World Cup squad for France!!!

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
MOUSSA DEMBELE
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LEAGUE TABLE
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[Klippybo]

Did you see that Monaco signed Pellegri yesterday? Worlds most expensive 16 year old!

Yeah my mate told me that. £17m he said?

Beast in my save!

 

[Klippybo]

TERRY MCDERMOTT
Midfielder
1973-74 & 1982-84
150 apps, 24 goals

Did You Know? Terry Mac was the assistant manager of Newcastle from 1992-98 and also from 2005-08.

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MAY

UEFA Champions League Semi-Final 2nd Leg
v

​​AS Monaco 3 (Kane 6, Moreno 17, Bongiovanni 78)
Newcastle United 5 (Dembele 12, D'Amico 38, 50, 70, 90)
(Agg: 5-9)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack (Farrell), Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Henry, D'Amico*, Lanzini (Zuparic), Sane, Dembele

I forgot to say in the 1st leg that we broke the Champions League record for goals scored and here we are adding another 4 onto that total as we reach the Champions League final. Oh and D'Amico scored 4 goals lol.

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v
Newcastle United 3 (Dembele 64pen, 67, 88)
Reading 0

Lineup - Donnarimma, Sandberg, Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic, Henry (Mrmic), Orsolini, Hunt (Charlton), Murphy (R.Sessegnon), Dembele*

I took a huge gamble here in playing my backups here but it paid dividends twice over as we got a convincing win thanks to Dembele's hat-trick.

Even better news - Man Utd drew so we have a 4pt lead again and move +3 ahead on goal difference.

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v
Newcastle United 3 (Dembele 18, Henry 71, 85)
Manchester United 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Lanzini (Henry*), Sane (Orsolini), Dembele (Pellegri)

CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!

We knew if we won we had the title and we did it here. We took the lead through Dembele and then they had Pogba sent-off and after that it was a case of seeing things out. I made a triple substitution and all of a sudden we kicked into another gear with Jose Henry scoring twice to show me yet again why he maybe should be starting.

Now for the hard decision - do I risk our unbeaten league season by giving the youngsters some game time and resting them for the 2 upcoming finals?

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v
Newcastle United 2 (Henry 13, Murphy 80)
Liverpool 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Bradford, Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic (Hunt), Charlton, Murphy, Henry*, R.Sessegnon (Lewis), Dembele (Mrmic)

Jose Henry stars again as my backups comfortably beat Liverpool. Ian Lewis came on for his debut and he had a goal disallowed but assisted the 2nd in his short cameo spell.

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v

​​West Bromwich Albion 0
Newcastle United 0

Lineup - Donnarumma, Bradford, Farrell, Phungwayo, Chilwell, Zuparic, Charlton (Xadas), Orsolini, Henry, Murphy (R.Sessegnon), Dembele (Mrmic)

THE INVINCIBLES!!!

Although the result wasn't great it means that we end the league campaign unbeaten and our points tally of 100 is also a new record.

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FA Cup Final
v

​​Manchester United 1 (Isco 47)
Newcastle United 2 (Lanzini 83, Dembele 90)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney, Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Henry (Lanzini), Sane, Pellegri (Dembele)

WE WIN THE CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

This was a very pleasing victory. It was all them in the 1st half and for up to 70min tbh but I made 2 changes and everything changed and both subs came on to score the goals to win us the FA Cup.

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UEFA Champions League Final
v

​​Paris Saint-Germain 3 (Mbappe 3, 19pen, 30)
Newcastle United 3 (D'Amico 2, Pellegri 28, Merino 81)
AET - Newcastle United win 5-3 on penalties

Lineup - Arensoe, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, Merino, D'Amico, Henry (Soumare), Sane, Pellegri (Dembele)

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

What a final this was. We had bad news beforehand as Donnarumma got injured so Arensoe had to start in goal but it didn't affect us as we stormed into a 2nd minute lead. They levelled within a minute and went ahead shortly after but Pellegri levelled for us.

Not for long though as Mbappe completed his hat-trick but then he went off injured and that was a huge boost. In the 2nd half we battered them and finally levelled when Merino struck late on. We piled on the pressure but to no avail and we went to extra-time which was a non event.

So to penalties and my former keeper Timo Horn was in goal for them but he didn't save any of our penalties and Arensoe saved Bernardeschi's pen and we were champions!


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SUMMARY

What an end to the season! We had some huge games and it all went our way. We kicked off the month by thumping Monaco to reach the Champions League final with D'Amico scoring 4 goals to inspire us. That was followed up by an easy win over Reading where Dembele notched a hat-trick.

Next up we won the title by beating our nearest rivals Man Utd and closed the season out with a victory over Liverpool and a draw against WBA to ensure that we finished the league campaign unbeaten.

We then won the FA Cup final by beating Man Utd and then claimed the Champions League with a penalty shoot-out victory over PSG after a thrilling 3-3 draw.

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
FELICE D'AMICO
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END OF SEASON POST TO FOLLOW
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[Klippybo]

SHOLA AMEOBI
Forward
2000-14
397 apps, 79 goals

Did You Know? "The Mackem Slayer" (only Jackie Milburn has scored more goals against Sunderland) amazingly almost made more appearances as a sub for the club than he did start the game - 219 starts, 178 sub appearances.

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END OF SEASON POST

What a season. We played 64 games all season and only lost 1 - 5-4 away to Real Madrid - which is just amazing. We were maybe somewhat surprisingly pushed all the way by Man Utd considering we were invincible and only secured the title by beating them with 3 games to go.

The Community Shield was collected and in the Carabao Cup we had the benefit of easy draws before facing Chelsea in the final and we came out on top in a 7 goal thriller. We won the FA Cup for the 1st time too under me by beating Man Utd in the final after beating Liverpool along the way.

In the Champions League we were on fire. We broke the record for goals scored and scored 5 past Feyenoord in one match, 4 past Napoli in another, 4 against Real Madrid in another and in our 4 games against Monaco we scored 6, 4, 4 and 5 with Dembele scoring 4 goals in a game twice and D'Amico once against them!!!!! In the final we faced PSG and after an enthralling 3-3 draw we came out on top on penalties to win the trophy for the 2nd time.

So domestically all is good apart from the fact I failed the Premier League FFP by £50m or so and we got fined £11m for that!!!! Its not the bank balance that kills us but the wages. For next season we are on £225m and are allowed £232m. I suppose at some point when I stop strengthening the squad with big name signings it will stop growing.

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FINAL LEAGUE TABLE
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As you can see we were unbeaten and totally deserved the title for a 3rd time. We had so many good performances from big wins against Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool to also beating Liverpool with my backups. That's about it! lol

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FIRST TEAM SQUAD
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Standout player was Felice D'Amico. The 21y/o scored 27, assisted 32 and only from 47 starts and that's from the RW!!!!! Soumare took advantage of Pellegri's injury and in the 1st half of the season excelled and as we speak he is my highest valued player at £74m!!!

Passlack, Merino, Tielemans, Sane and Dembele also excelled while Pietro Pellegri who missed the 1st half of the season with a broken leg scored 20 goals from only 15 starts and 9 sub appearances!!!

On the downside - Sessegnon still hasn't pushed hard enough while Manuel Lanzini doesn't contribute enough anymore. Jose Henry - who when you compare him to Tielemans is far, far, far, far, far, far better is likely to play slightly out of position in AMC next season, unless I sign one!

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AWARDS AND OTHER STUFF
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So many other awards including Player and Young Player of the Year (D'Amico) plus all the Champions League awards. How Zuparic is one of my top 5 player shirt sells is beyond me. Wonderful player that he is but we have so many others that I would thought have been above him

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THOUGHTS FOR THE SUMMER

I would like to sell Sandberg, Lanzini and Orsolini and depending on what I can get for them decides on who I buy tbh. As ever I would like to get work permits for some of the 9 players that I have out on loan at Nimes.

Now for the World Cup with France..........

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[Klippybo]

FRANCE

Friendly

v
France 2 (Mbappe 43, Martial 84)
Sweden 1 (Guidetti 64)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane (Zouma), Umtiti (Laporte), Hernandez, Kante (Bakayoko), Pogba (Rabiot), Coman, Tolisso (O.Dembele), Lemar, Mbappe (Martial)

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Friendly

v
France 11 (M.Dembele 9, 18, 24, Kante 17, Martial 20, 30pen, 79, Coman 25, 59, Tolisso 38, 44)
San Marino 0

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti, Kimpembe, Kante, Pogba, Coman, Tolisso, Martial, M.Dembele* (Mbappe)

I arranged this fixture to give a confidence boost to the squad ahead of the World Cup and it worked a treat as we got the expected landslide victory. Pretty annoyed with the 2nd half after scoring 9 in the 1st half.

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SQUAD FOR THE WORLD CUP

Goalkeepers
[TABLE="width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD]NAME
[/TD]
[TD]AGE
[/TD]
[TD]CLUB
[/TD]
[TD]VALUE
[/TD]
[TD]CAPS
[/TD]
[TD]GOALS
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alphonse AREOLA
[/TD]
[TD]29
[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco
[/TD]
[TD]£43m
[/TD]
[TD]25
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Benoit COSTIL
[/TD]
[TD]34
[/TD]
[TD]Schalke 04
[/TD]
[TD]£3.5m
[/TD]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alban LAFONT
[/TD]
[TD]23
[/TD]
[TD]Marseille
[/TD]
[TD]£14.5m
[/TD]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


Defenders
[TABLE="width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD]NAME
[/TD]
[TD]AGE
[/TD]
[TD]POS
[/TD]
[TD]CLUB
[/TD]
[TD]VALUE
[/TD]
[TD]CAPS[/TD]
[TD]GOALS
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Theo HERNANDEZ
[/TD]
[TD]24
[/TD]
[TD]D/AML
[/TD]
[TD]Real Madrid
[/TD]
[TD]£57m
[/TD]
[TD]4
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Presnel KIMPEMBE
[/TD]
[TD]26
[/TD]
[TD]DLC
[/TD]
[TD]Paris Saint-Germain
[/TD]
[TD]£59m
[/TD]
[TD]22
[/TD]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Aymeric LAPORTE
[/TD]
[TD]28
[/TD]
[TD]DC
[/TD]
[TD]Bayer Leverkusen
[/TD]
[TD]£51m
[/TD]
[TD]16
[/TD]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Djibril SIDIBE
[/TD]
[TD]29
[/TD]
[TD]DRL
[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco
[/TD]
[TD]£48m
[/TD]
[TD]61
[/TD]
[TD]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Samuel UMTITI
[/TD]
[TD]28
[/TD]
[TD]DLC
[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco
[/TD]
[TD]£58m
[/TD]
[TD]54
[/TD]
[TD]4
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dayot UPAMECANO
[/TD]
[TD]23
[/TD]
[TD]DC
[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco
[/TD]
[TD]£59m
[/TD]
[TD]17
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Raphael VARANE
[/TD]
[TD]29
[/TD]
[TD]DC
[/TD]
[TD]Real Madrid
[/TD]
[TD]£62m
[/TD]
[TD]87
[/TD]
[TD]5
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Kurt ZOUMA
[/TD]
[TD]27
[/TD]
[TD]DRC
[/TD]
[TD]Chelsea[/TD]
[TD]£55m
[/TD]
[TD]20
[/TD]
[TD]0
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


Midfielders
[TABLE="width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD]NAME
[/TD]
[TD]AGE
[/TD]
[TD]POS
[/TD]
[TD]CLUB
[/TD]
[TD]VALUE
[/TD]
[TD]CAPS[/TD]
[TD]GOALS
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tiemoue BAKAYOKO[/TD]
[TD]27
[/TD]
[TD]D/MC
[/TD]
[TD]Atletico Madrid
[/TD]
[TD]£52m
[/TD]
[TD]17
[/TD]
[TD]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Kingsley COMAN
[/TD]
[TD]25
[/TD]
[TD]AMRLC
[/TD]
[TD]Bayern Munich
[/TD]
[TD]£65m
[/TD]
[TD]52
[/TD]
[TD]12
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ousmane DEMBELE
[/TD]
[TD]25
[/TD]
[TD]AMRLC
[/TD]
[TD]Manchester City
[/TD]
[TD]£66m
[/TD]
[TD]41
[/TD]
[TD]7
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Antoine GRIEZMANN
[/TD]
[TD]31
[/TD]
[TD]AMLC/ST
[/TD]
[TD]Manchester City
[/TD]
[TD]£49.5m
[/TD]
[TD]90
[/TD]
[TD]39
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]N'Golo KANTE
[/TD]
[TD]31
[/TD]
[TD]MC
[/TD]
[TD]Arsenal
[/TD]
[TD]£34.5m
[/TD]
[TD]59
[/TD]
[TD]6
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Thomas LEMAR
[/TD]
[TD]26
[/TD]
[TD]M/AMRLC
[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco
[/TD]
[TD]£73m
[/TD]
[TD]47
[/TD]
[TD]9
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Anthony MARTIAL
[/TD]
[TD]26
[/TD]
[TD]AML/ST
[/TD]
[TD]Manchester United
[/TD]
[TD]£69m
[/TD]
[TD]55
[/TD]
[TD]23
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Paul POGBA
[/TD]
[TD]29
[/TD]
[TD]M/AMC
[/TD]
[TD]Manchester United
[/TD]
[TD]£69m
[/TD]
[TD]94
[/TD]
[TD]21
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Adrien RABIOT
[/TD]
[TD]27
[/TD]
[TD]MC
[/TD]
[TD]Paris Saint-Germain
[/TD]
[TD]£59m
[/TD]
[TD]33
[/TD]
[TD]2
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Corentin TOLISSO
[/TD]
[TD]27
[/TD]
[TD]M/AMC
[/TD]
[TD]Manchester City
[/TD]
[TD]£60m
[/TD]
[TD]52
[/TD]
[TD]5
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


Forward
[TABLE="width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD]NAME
[/TD]
[TD]AGE
[/TD]
[TD]POS
[/TD]
[TD]CLUB
[/TD]
[TD]VALUE
[/TD]
[TD]CAPS
[/TD]
[TD]GLS
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Moussa DEMBELE
[/TD]
[TD]25
[/TD]
[TD]ST
[/TD]
[TD]Newcastle United
[/TD]
[TD]£52m
[/TD]
[TD]10
[/TD]
[TD]6
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Kylian MBAPPE
[/TD]
[TD]23
[/TD]
[TD]AMRLC/ST
[/TD]
[TD]Paris Saint-Germain
[/TD]
[TD]£85m
[/TD]
[TD]44
[/TD]
[TD]24
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

​

 

[Klippybo]

FRANCE

FIFA WORLD CUP 2022

GROUP H

v

Mali 1 (Soumare 68)
France 3 (Konate og18, Umtiti 33, Martial 76)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti*, Hernandez (Kimpembe), Kante, Pogba, Coman (O.Dembele), Tolisso, Lemar, Mbappe (Martial)

A good start to our campaign. My own Issiaka Soumare scored against us which was nice lol.

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v
France 2 (Kante 8, Mbappe 27)
Italy 2 (Belotti 16, 45)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti, Hernandez, Kante, Pogba (Rabiot), Coman (O.Dembele), Tolisso (Martial), Lemar, Mbappe

Disappointed not to win this as Italy played the last 30min with 10 men and also because we took the lead twice but Italy drew their 1st game so we should still easily qualify.

--

v

South Korea 1 (Ji Dong-Won 59)
France 2 (Lemar 10, 72)

Lineup - Areola, Zouma, Varane, Umtiti (Upamecano), Kimpembe, Bakayoko, Rabiot (Griezmann), Coman, Tolisso, Lemar*, Mbappe (Martial)

We got what we wanted today as we win our group. I took the liberty of resting a couple of players too which will hopefully be beneficial.

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2nd Round

v

Colombia 0
France 2 (Mbappe 60, 83pen)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Laporte, Umtiti, Hernandez, Kante, Pogba (Rabiot), O.Dembele, Griezmann (M.Dembele), Lemar (Martial), Mbappe*

We were excellent here and thoroughly deserved our win. Their keeper was amazing and at the end of the game I realised it was one of my young keepers out on loan at Nimes!!!!

Mexico 0-3 Belgium
Nigeria 0-4 Spain
Holland (P) 0-0 Sweden
Argentina 2-1 Brazil
Denmark 1-4 Germany
Scotland 3-4 Portugal
Italy 0-2 England

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Quarter Final

v

Portugal 0
France 2 (Lemar 42, Umtiti 74)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti, Hernandez (Kimpembe), Kante (Bakayoko), Pogba, Coman, Tolisso, Lemar*, Mbappe (M.Dembele)

Another very professional performance and a convincing victory. They had a goal disallowed early on and then we scored just before the break on the counter. We then had a goal disallowed in the 2nd half before Umtiti scored his 2nd goal of the tournament and through we go!

Spain 1-0 Argentina
Belgium 1-0 Holland
Germany 2-1 England

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Semi-Final

v

Spain 0
France 1 (Mbappe 83)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti, Kimpembe, Kante, Pogba (Rabiot), Coman (O.Dembele), Tolisso (Griezmann), Lemar, Mbappe*

This was a turgid and dreary affair but we got the goal late on to reach the World Cup final.

Belgium 1-3 Germany

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Final

v

Germany 1 (Sane 82)
France 5 (M.Dembele 65, 79, O.Dembele 74, Griezmann 85, Rudiger og87)

Lineup - Areola, Sidibe, Varane, Umtiti, Hernandez, Kante*, Pogba, Coman (O.Dembele), Griezmann, Lemar (Martial), Mbappe (M.Dembele)

AMAZING!!!!

What a 2nd half that was. Mbappe picked up a knock in the 1st half so I put on my own Moussa Dembele and he changed the game as he scored twice and forced the own goal. The other Dembele scored a magical solo goal and Griezmann also notched. Leroy Sane got a goal which was nice lol.


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[Klippybo]

ITALY APPOINT KRIS STUART AS MANAGER

After winning the World Cup with France I thought I did all that I could do with France so applied for a host of other jobs. Argentina tempted me but it was in the end a choice of either Brazil or Italy and I chose Italy because I have a vested interest in them due to Donnarumma, D'Amico and Pellegri.

France was decent to manage but I didn't actually like the makeup of my squad. Not a single decent natural AMC and some other slight annoyances.

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[Klippybo]

COLIN VEITCH
Midfielder
1899-1914
322 apps, 49 goals

Did You Know? Veitch actually gave up his career to persue a career in academia and he ended up being a composer, conductor, playwright and producer. He won the League title 3 times and the FA Cup once (runner-up 5 times!).

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PRE-SEASON

This was a different summer for all sorts of reasons. Obviously the World Cup with France distracted me but with my limited transfer budget of £55m I wasn't going to be signing my top targets. Different countries joined the EU which provided a boost for me, a player rejected a transfer and I realised that I had agreed to sell a player by mistake!!!!

We also won against the MLS all stars which apparently wasn't considered a friendly as I had to manage it and that was different lol.

Oh and regarding Nimes. My players scored over 60 goals for them in the league last season (league isn't loaded just going by player stats) and they duly moved out of Ligue 2 - TO BEING RELEGATED TO NON LEAGUE!!!!!! What the **** is that all about?

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PLAYERS OUT

Firstly a small rant which affected my signings. Manuel Lanzini is a *****. I have offered him for transfer loads of times and finally Spurs offered me £45m so I chucked him into the U23s just to try and **** him off and give him a hint and he only went and rejected the contract and to date I still have the ***** with no interested parties!!!!

Anyway to sales and some servants for me left. Riccardo Orsolini, who I bought for £3.3m, left for AC Milan for £25.5m. He played 79 games for us and scored 17 times which was decent but he couldn't force himself to be a starter.

My first major signing Xadas has also gone. He still may be young but I thought we had better or could bring in better. We received an initial £21m for him from Lille and after 159 apps and 34 goals I wish him well. Braga scored as they received £5m of the fee the bastards!!!

Adam Armstrong (£1.5m), Joao Ribeiro (£700,000) and Steven Sessegnon (£375,000) also left as did Koki Nagai who I loaned out to Leverkusen last season but didn't realise that he would be sold for £1.1m after 5 appearances!!! Idiot.

I loaned out the usual 5,000 players to Nimes to get work permits while a few others went to other feeder sides. Ivan Perdomo who was the aforementioned amazing Colombia keeper in the World Cup got a work permit and is valued at £10m finally got a work permit and was loaned out to Reading. Karsten Sandberg was loaned out to Hull.

TOTAL INCOME - £52m

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PLAYERS IN

I signed one player for the 1st team squad and that was Maximiliano Lovera from Arsenal for £26.5m. It was a case of signing for signings sakes and also the fact that once Xadas left I promised Lascelles that I would strengthen, He looks technically gifted and hopefully he will do a job.
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The rest were all regens and 2 were for decent money. Firstly Krunoslav Munac was brought in from my feeder side Dinamo for £7.75m. The 18y/o looks a prospect and will hopefully get game time. Eji Yoshizaki came in from Sanfrecce for £3.2m and is now valued at £15m. He is also 18 and unfortunately doesn't have a work permit.
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The others were all regens bought for a total of just over £2m. Most are at Nimes to get work permits.
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TOTAL SPENT - £39.5m

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FIRST TEAM SQUAD

Finally, 3 years after signing him my Serbian winger Ilica Vujosevic got a work permit as Serbia joined the EU. A couple of injuries have stunted his growth but at 20y/o he still has time and will get some game time as D'Amico's understudy. Jonathan Bradford has been promoted to the 1st team squad as my backup RB.

Tbh my main decision is who to play AMC? Lanzini is still picking up a wage, Lovera has come in and looks decent while Jose Henry is ridiculous but AMC isn't his natural position.........




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[Dokara]

Klippy, any chances for Newcastle born and bred Aitor??

 

[Klippybo]

LES FERDINAND
Forward
1995-97
83 apps, 50 goals
Signed from QPR for £6m
Sold to Tottenham Hotspur for £6m

[video=youtube;NNh3-FYl-ig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNh3-FYl-ig[/video]

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AUGUST

FA Community Shield
v

​​Manchester United 1 (Pogba 90)
Newcastle United 1 (Soumare 85)
(Newcastle United win 3-1 on penalties)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tielemans, Henry (Zuparic), D'Amico, Lovera (Soumare), Sane, Pellegri (Dembele)

This was as dull as anything until the last 5min when Soumare gave us the lead and then Pogba levelled. Donnarumma then saved 3 Man Utd penalties and that was that!

--

UEFA European Super Cup

v
Newcastle United 2 (Soumare 5, Dembele 90)
Chelsea 1 (Essien 68)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Tierney (Chilwell), Tielemans, D'Amico, Lovera, Sane, Soumare (Dembele)

Dembele struck at the death to give us the trophy here just as I was thinking of making my final sub for extra-time.

--

v

​​Brighton & Hove Albion
Newcastle United (Pellegri 4, 28, Gyokeres og35, Sane 48)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack (Lascelles), Jedvaj, Farrell, Zuparic, Henry, D'Amico, Lovera (Vujosevic), Sane (Murphy), Pellegri*

Beforehand I decided to make Farrell a 1st choice CB and drop club captain Lascelles. My first choice CM pairing were both injured too as well as Soumare but we didn't miss them as we blasted 4 past a poor Brighton side.

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v
Newcastle United 3 (Zuparic 4, D'Amico 65, Sane 70)
West Bromwich Albion 1 (Sancho 52)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Farrell, Tierney, Zuparic, Henry*, D'Amico, Lovera (Soumare), Sane, Pellegri (Dembele)

This was a weird game but one in which we completely dominated. We took the lead and then they had a disallowed goal before equalising. Then we missed a pen through Dembele but D'Amico and Sane struck for 3 goals and 3pts.

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​​Manchester United 3 (Rashford 22, Suso 26, Andre Silva 57)
Newcastle United 3 (Sane 9, D'Amico 12pen, Pellegri 48)

Lineup - Donnarumma, Passlack, Jedvaj, Farrell, Tierney (Chilwell), Zuparic (Merino), Henry, D'Amico, Lovera, Sane, Pellegri

This is definitely 2pts dropped as we threw away a 2 goal lead and then a 1 goal lead plus Pellegri missed a few chances to win it. That being said we didn't get beat.

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SUMMARY

The 1st month of the season kicked us off and we duly collected 2 trophies plus got off to a decent start in the league as we won 2 and got a good away draw against Man Utd. Regarding the 1st team I decided to pick Eddie Farrell as a starter but AMC is still up for grabs. Lovera has started but not impressed, Henry could come in there when my other 2 CMs are fit and that lad Lanzini is still here lol.

In the transfer window I signed a regen striker that my DoF noticed for a pittance and another regen on a free transfer but I just signed him to help Gateshead lol.
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Heading out was a few youngsters for small fees plus I loaned Woodman out to my feeder side Dinamo until January while Barnsley have got Jacob Dodds on loan and they have said he will be a key player for them in the Premier League so it will interesting to see how he develops.

In the cups we will play Brighton in the Carabao Cup while in the Champions League we will face Napoli, Gent and Lyon which isn't too bad.

As for the rest of the Premier League - here are the leading transfers. I so wanted Vinicius Junior!!!!!
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
LEROY SANE
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LEAGUE TABLE
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[Klippybo]

Klippy, any chances for Newcastle born and bred Aitor??

Who? LOL

I wondered how long it would take before he was mentioned. Did quite well not doing it myself!!! I can only live in hope for a Geordie Aitor but at the moment the best I have got is a RB and that just isn't the same