Notts County from Non-League to Champions League

January



In January we return to FA cup action with a nice easy tie against Yeovil where we run ut nice 2-0 winners to set up a big money tie against Brighton. The game against Brighton we play at home Geubbels shows his quality by getting the opening goal just before half time but White gets the equaliser just after half time and the game ends 1-1 and we get a reply in Brighton. In the league we get back to winning ways with winning every game going and winning them comfortably well apart from Plymouth where we had to come back from behind twice. We also got a superb win over Sunderland in the Checkatrade Trophy to show how far ahead we are in terms of progress and squad development.

League



February



Transfers Out



We have 6 players leave the team in this window. It was sad to see Sloth go with how important he was for us last season but he spent most of this season injured so we cashed in on him. We also sold top prospect Matt Brown to Norwich for £2 million plus 50% of next sale. At the moment we won't stand in the way of our young players moving onto a better team until we can develop them better and offer them the level of football that they need.

Breaking News

Angus Gunn Signs for Notts County

Notts County have only made one signing in this transfer window and boy did they go big as even though they have an established No 1 in Jordan Archer who has been ruled out for two months they have secured the signature of Angus Gunn on the final day of the transfer window. Gunn had been transfer listed by Southampton and had only played 19 games for them since he completed his £10 million move from Manchester City in 2018. Gunn was transfer listed for £500,000 but with the need of a new keeper Notts County agreed a deal for £2.6 million but that will include Southampton paying £30,000 of his wages until 2023.

It may seem like a lot of money for a League 2 to spend on a keeper but with how things are going he should be an experienced keeper by the time we reach the Premier League and saves us having to find a new keeper by then.

February



The month starts off with the replay in the FA Cup where we travel to Brighton and what a game it is. We get to full time sitting at 0-0 before falling 1-0 down in the 3rd minute of extra time before we pulled it back in the 96th minute before we got the winner in the 98th minute to see is through to the 5th round where we will be facing Stoke City. The month also saw us reach the final of the Checkatrade final with good wins against Middlesbrough and Fleetwood Ton and we will now meet Arsenal U23's in the final.

The League form this month has been excellent this month with us picking up 15 points from 15. The big win though was against Crawley where the win sealed our promotion up to League 1 before the win against Exeter was enough to see us up as Champions with 10 games remaining. The hard work starts now to get the team ready for League 1 and we will be looking to the expiring contracts again at the end of the season.



League



March



Budgets



A good budget for getting promoted and we will be looking to make the most of it.

March



Its been a busy month where we've managed to fit in 2 FA Cup games and 6 league games. In the FA Cup we started by welcoming Stoke to Nottingham where goals from Boldewijn and Geubbels saw us through to the next round where we faced Charlton. Against Charlton they pulled it back twice but we managed to get the third. Geubbels scored an excellent brace and Reeves scored in between the two goals from Geubbels. We now progress to the Semi final where we will face Arsenal at Wembley.

In the league is was as straight forward as usual where against Mansfield, Newport and Carlisle we scored goals for fun and our defence was solid as well (Well apart from the Carlisle game. Angus Gunn has had a good first month for us as well keeping 4 clean sheets which will hopefully be the first 4 of many over the next few seasons.

League



April



Youth

The youth intake looks like we have one good prospect coming through and hopefully one day we might see him making his first team debut.



Sam Morris is the standout and he looks not too bad for us.