Newcastle United have committed more than £250m on transfer fees in the three transfer windows since the new owners took control. The squad has been transformed from relegation battlers to Champions League qualifiers, and there is a strong argument that the majority of the first team either already are, or have the potential to become, …
We assess the transfer business done by Newcastle United in the new regime’s first two transfer windows, providing a comparison between the squad Eddie Howe inherited when becoming NUFC manager to the one he now has 12 months later.
Now that Eddie Howe has masterminded a remarkable rise up the league table and Newcastle’s Premier League status is all but assured, thoughts will inevitably turn towards the upcoming transfer window and the squad building that will begin in earnest.
Back in those calm, serene pre-transfer window days of December, I made an assessment of the squad and a prediction of which players may be left out to make way for the imminent signings.
It’s 2nd October 2021. Newcastle United have just lost again in miserable fashion, this time away to Wolves. Newcastle have lost four and drawn three of their opening seven league games. The away support at Molineux is jaded, tired, fed up and unusually flat. They can’t even muster the energy to be angry. They have seen …
