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#649319 Rebuilding Newcastle

mattu29

16 years ago

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12 Sep 2021 09:20:57

Transfers 20/21

So my mass movements started with a busy day on 31/7/2020 with a personal favourite, Thiago Almada, coming in for an initial £5million, rising to under £10million with clauses. On the same day, Paul Dummett and Matt Ritchie were sold for nearly £15.5million combined, which isn't a bad deal for two players who I don't consider good enough or that I would use much, so a nice little boost to the transfer budget, which started at £17million.

Then i looked at the free transfer market, and brought in Jack Roles, who I think has potential and at worse, can be sold for a bit of profit, being a Cambridge United follower, I also like him due to his loan move a few seasons back. I also picked up Irishman, Robbie Brady, who will be good cover down the whole left side, and a player i've never heard of in Argentinian, Fede Cartabia, who has impressed off the bench in the almost half season i've had him. Again he could be sold for a nice profit at the end of the season if I find an alternative, but these two have added depth to my wing options, behind my first choice in Ryan Fraser and Allan Saint-Maximin.

I added Dalot as felt Manquillo is not that level and with Dalot available, I thought why not. The signing of Papetti was a weird one as I tried to take advantage of that contract issue he has at the start of the game, but couldnt compete with Arsenal, but still managed to get him for the season anyway, on loan.

4 other signings were a mixture of scout recommendations and personal favourites, with Livakovic (GK) and Badiashile (DC) players I enjoyed signing throughout games on FM21, and Menino (MC) and Rogic (AMC) both highly recommended by scouts. Rogic will come in to compete with Almiron for the AMC role, while Menino and Badiashile were brought in to break into the team over the season, but have already done that from early in the season and am hoping they progress more and more for the rest of the season, hopefully injury free. The signing of Livakovic came about because I offered out Darlow and Gillespie and only managed to get a loan deal for Gillespie, so offered out Dubravka and was shocked when Real Madrid came in with a £17.75million offer for a 31 year old who i'd be replacing with a 25 year old for almost half that. 31 is not old for a keeper, but Livakovic is great and has 6 years on Dubravka.

The rest of the sales were of players I didn't want or felt I had enough cover in those positions, like Federico Fernandez (DC), Emil Krafth (RB) and Jeff Hendrick (MC). Jacob Murphy was also sold for the same reason, and because I felt Burnley's offer of £8million was too good to turn down for a player I wouldn't use and could invest that elsewhere.

#649315 Rebuilding Newcastle

mattu29

16 years ago

10 hours ago

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12 Sep 2021 09:01:16

So i've randomised who to manage and come up with Newcastle United, which happens to be my Grandad's team when he was alive, so a nice project to try and turn them around and give their loyal fanbase something to cheer about. Going to be trying to ship out some of the older players and bringing in youth, while sticking with some good players they have like Jamal Lewis, Miguel Almiron, Callum Wilson, Joe Willock and Allan Saint-Maximin. I've found it hard to get into a game in FM21 but have decided this will be my last game before FM22, so really knuckling down and enjoying it, currently in December and been surprised with how well its gone so far, so this story will start after my last game against Leicester (which didnt go so well) and onto a tough Xmas period, facing Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool within 6 days, and then on from there.

I'm a big fan of full squad overhauls and play like that when managing in FM, so don't be surprised with lots of signings each season, as its how ive always been lol.