Nick Blackman

Nick Blackman
Personnel
Surname	Nicholas Alexander Blackman
birthday	November 11, 1989
place of birth	Salford ,  England
size	188 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
2005-2006	Macclesfield Town
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2009	Macclesfield Town	12 0(1)
2009–2012	Blackburn Rovers	1 0(0)
2009	→  Blackpool FC  (loan)	5 0(1)
2009	→  Oldham Athletic  (loan)	12 0(1)
2010	→  Motherwell FC  (loan)	18 (10)
2011	→  Aberdeen FC  (loan)	15 0(2)
2012-2013	Sheffield United	28 (11)
2013-2016	Reading FC	103 (18)
2016–	Derby County	23 0(1)
2017-2018	→  Maccabi Tel Aviv  (loan)	31 (10)
2018-2019	→  Sporting Gijón  (loan)	11 0(1)
2019–	Maccabi Tel Aviv	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 21, 2020

Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Blackman (born November 11, 1989 in Salford ) is an English football player who is under contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv .

Career

Macclesfield Town

Blackman began his professional career with English third division club Macclesfield Town , where he signed his first professional contract in March 2007 after having trained at Manchester United , Preston North End and Bury FC on a trial basis. He made his debut for the Silkmen against Accrington Stanley , but could not intervene in league events in the following months because he suffered an injury in the pre-season. His first professional goal was his team's 1-1 draw against Dagenham & Redbridge .

Blackburn Rovers

Despite the relatively small number of 12 missions in three years, he was able to convince in a test training with the English Premier League representative Blackburn Rovers . The Rovers, under coach Sam Allardyce, secured the services of the striker, who thereby became the first English- born and raised Jewish footballer in the Premier League.

It quickly became clear that Blackman had to continue to collect match practice at this point, so that he was loaned to various clubs in the following years. In March of the same year he was awarded for a month and later until the end of the 2008/09 season to the second division club Blackpool .

The next season he returned to Football League Two to storm for Oldham Athletic for a month . This loan deal was also extended, so that he did not return to Blackburn until January 2010. He then came to the Rovers' second team and was able to score three goals in ten games.

Blackman had still not played a game for his actual employer and this should not change in the 2010/11 season, as he was loaned out to the Scottish Premier League for Motherwell FC for six months in August . In November he managed a "flawless" hat trick in the game against FC St. Johnstone (4-0) .

After the loan deal ended after six months, Craig Brown , his coach at Motherwell FC , took him to Aberdeen FC , as he also started a new job there. Blackman also signed up there for half a year.

For the 2011/12 season Blackman was the first time in the squad of Blackburn Rovers. He came on the first day of his use when he was substituted in for the game against Wolverhampton Wanderers .

Sheffield United

In the summer of 2012 Blackman moved to Sheffield United in Football League One . There he signed a two-year contract and was able to play in the starting XI. After only six months he moved on to the first division club Reading FC , where he signed a contract until the end of the 2015/16 season.

Web links

• Nick Blackman in the database of weltfussball.de
• Nick Blackman in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Young striker nets Silkmen deal" (English, accessed on November 28, 2011)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Nick Blackman on the FC Macclesfield website (accessed November 28, 2011)
3. ↑ thejc.com: "Blackman in a league of his own" (accessed November 28, 2011)
4. ↑ blackpoolfc.co.uk: "New Face In Blackpool Squad" ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed November 28, 2011) 
5. ↑ skysports.com: "Latics land Rovers striker" (accessed November 28, 2011)
6. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Motherwell sign Blackburn forward Nick Blackman on loan" (accessed November 28, 2011)
7. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report FC Motherwell - FC St. Johnstone (accessed on November 28, 2011)
8. ↑ bbc.co.uk: "Aberdeen sign Nick Blackman and Robert Milsom" (English, accessed on November 28, 2011)
9. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Blackburn Rovers - Wolverhampton Wanderers (accessed on November 28, 2011)
10. ↑ rovers.co.uk: "Blackman joins the Blades" (accessed January 27, 2013)
11. ↑ skysports.com: "Transfer news: Reading sign Nick Blackman from Sheffield United" (accessed on March 19, 2013)