Newcastle are planning up to six additions in the summer according to the latest from Chris Waugh in The Athletic. On the agenda are a left-back, a right-footed center-back, a defensive midfielder, another number 8, and two versatile forwards.
The top target remains Leicester City’s James Maddison, who could potentially fill the number 8 or versatile attacker roles. Newcastle are expected to make a serious push for the 26-year-old this summer as he enters the final year of his contract.
Other familiar midfielders Waugh cites are Manchester United’s Scott McTominay, Ajax’s Edson Alvarez, and Brighton’s Moises Caicedo, though the Ecuadorian is considered a longshot with other top clubs in pursuit.
Three left-backs are also named with Arsenal’s Kieran Tierney seemingly the preferred target. Howe reportedly is a long-time admirer of the Scotland nternational. Fulham’s Antonee Robinson and Nottingham Forest loanee Renan Lodi are also thought highly of.
Up front, it appears Howe wants some more young hybrid wide forwards à la Anthony Gordon. Athletic Club’s Nico Williams is high on the list. In fact, he was considered during the January window. The 20-year-old has been watched extensively in recent years.
Newcastle have also watched Sheffield United attacker Iliman Ndiaye in recent weeks according to The Sun. The 23-year-old has had a standout campaign for The Blades, who are second in the Championship.
Internal discussions are at an early phase while Newcastle try to secure a European place. Seventh should be enough to seal a ticket to the Europa Conference League with Howe hoping to have plenty of squad depth for his second full season in charge.
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184 comments so far
DrGloom
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:27 PM
Comment #81Same old rumours being bandied about, can’t see us being after McTominay nor Tierney especially at 35-40 million .. he’s on the treatment bench more than the training ground
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Comment #82@Taco
So going by that thread we will have to be clever with our money which we kind of already thought!
Quite lot a good players available on free transfers this summer as well would like to hope we are able to get a bargain or 2 although the wages some people are being linked with Zaha has been offered 9 million a season in Saudi!!
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Comment #83Gloom, hard to be sure, as you say these are old stories and I always think that once a club has been linked to a player they will be forever more as journalists are lazy and have columns to fill.
I for one would not touch either of those two but we dont know if EH an co see things differently and in fact they are genuine long term targets. I hope they are not though.
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Comment #84I mean say we were able to do a bit of bargain hunting could we do this:
Ndicka beast of a centre back free transfer
Zemura promising left back free transfer
Thuram can play any of the front 3 positions free transfer
Tielemans can be midfield quality free transfer
Maddison big fee 40 or 50 million
That would really set us up with a good squad with still money to burn although the wages might be an issue…..
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Comment #85Nottingham Forest could be without up to 10 senior players for Friday night’s Premier League clash against Newcastle United.
The players missing are Omar Richards, Wily Boly, Scott McKenna, Taiwo Awoniyi, Dean Henderson, Giulian Biancone, Chris Wood, Cheikhou Kouyate, Wayne Hennessey and there is a doubt over Brennan Johnson.
We need to press them high and straight from kick off try get that early goal and don’t let them settle
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Comment #86Tfb,
Lacking sideburn discipline you say, some of the worst sideburn discipline, Rte Brigadier Mosschops would have had him flogged at the stake 😮
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Comment #87LCBP, true there is noting really new in the Athletic article and while Swedish Rumble does give some good detail and perspective on our finances as you say in general it is not a huge surprise that we are going to need to shop carefully in the summer.
3.5 Isaks sounds about right to me (as a max summer spend)
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Comment #88*some of the worst sideburn discipline, known to man 😮
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Comment #89That Kieran Maguire gave everybody a huge deal of false hope when he published all that rubbish about Ashley’s frugality allowing us to spend X amount. A financial expert he may be but he’s also a social media limelight seeker who, like journalists writes what people want to hear and what grabs the headlines.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Comment #90LCBP,
Remember that game in the champo when they cheated their way to getting two of ours sent off (both rescinded) we gave them a hell of a game, it was sickening to come out of that empty handed, the way that Lansbury celebrated on the final whistle, that still rankles.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Comment #91Mind you, I think we’re going top go large in the summer 😀
Ronway
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Comment #92Raj
” TOP go large ” – sounds good!
😀
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Comment #93Ronway,
I think there’s some kind of industrial dirt in between the o&p keys 😀
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Comment #94@Jail
Yeah guys like him saying we can spend X amount will not have helped when we actually contacted clubs to buy a player I remember that defender who eventually signed for Villa from Sevilla his director of football was making it public we were involved wanting 60 to 70 million
Will be interesting to know what the clubs figures and earnings are when the books are published that actually include all the income that Ashley had sneaked away into companies such as the catering, merchandise etc we might have a fair bit more wiggle room than previously expected
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Comment #95Raj, maybe people misunderstood Macguire but as I recall from what he wrote it was accurate – I think he said we could spend 600M (which we could have at the time) but that doing so would leave no wiggle room in the future. I think some people just look at the headlines and dont read the full details.
What people often overlook is that FFP is measured in 3 year rolling cycles. Given this we have already lost half the benefit of Ashleys tightfistedness (I think that is a better description than frugality) and we have spent a decent wedge. Our wage bill will also have increased a fair bit. We need income to start catching up before spending too much so we don’t get boxed into a corner.
I think that is the main issue with FFP debates – some people just read “£600M” they don’t bother to read all the caveats or look at the spreadsheets, graphs etc and dont fully comprehend that blowing all cash available ASAP with no guarantee of success is not a smart move to make.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Comment #96I don’t want to go all IrishRob here but I watched that video of Amanda Staveley that cyprus posted earlier, I’d watched a bit of it last week as well. When asked if PiF might sell us to buy a ‘bigger’ club, she started getting a bit flustered, ”No, I mean I don’t think so, er, I can’t speak for PIF but stammer stammer, change subject” :yikes: emoji
Hibbit
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Comment #97the biggest signings of the summer will be the new sponsors and that will decide what we are able spend on players,
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Comment #98I’d have thought Ashley’s frugality would mean we can spend more over a certain period. But FFP is over a 3 year period isn’t it? So in 18 months time, Ashley’s frugality will be irrelevant in that context, just relevant in terms of our ongoing catch up commercially.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Comment #99TTT,
Aye, we’ve heard a good few public eye football people saying they don’t understand FFP, onmeedson, the blog accountant even says he has a bit of understanding but doesn’t fully know the in and outs, yet we had social media spawning all kinds of overnight experts telling us what we could and couldn’t spend, it was all very misleading and a bit of a reality check when we never spent the £600M and paid off all the deadwood in one go.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Comment #100Ashley’s utter disdain for the club and it’s revenues has actually hampered our spending imo.
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Comment #101Raj, that is a non story, simply a question that she was not ready for I think and of course she can’t speak for PIF. They would actually have to sell us too. Cant see anything in that.
Just a random question that she was not expecting that is all I suspect.
Hibbit, true our shirt sponsor (and other possible deals) will help a lot. Shirt sponsor alone should add £30M+ per year to the kitty.
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Comment #102I am not an expert either Raj but I feel I have gained a good understanding of FFP over the years and I am detail oriented so I always go past the headline numbers and into the weeds of the what so-called experts say – and some are experts to be fair – I like Swiss Ramble the most but he hasn’t covered us recently – Swedish Rumble is a poor man’s Swiss Ramble
🙂
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Comment #103Raj – that was I meant in terms of playing catch up commercially.
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Comment #104Raj also true the crap deals Ashley did held us back and still do. However commercially it is understandable – he tarnished our brand so our brand was tarnished so we could not get the deals we should have been capable of getting. He created that circle and at the same time became a victim of it. Luckily that is all being slowly torn apart and rebuilt properly.
That is the sad thing. There is nothing PIF have done so far that Ashley could not have done years ago.
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Comment #105TDS, correct, I covered that too @98.
The good thing is that as you say in 1.5 seasons pretty much all trace of Ashley will be gone (with the possible exception of a couple of players contracts)
sparky55
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Comment #106All I know is Lord Scattercash has been given a mahoosive cheque book for the summer.
We wont get much in for who we are going to sell…perhaps 50 million. the bulk of which will come from selling ASM…but we’ll spend 180 million to give us a chance with our new european adventures.
Enjoy!
Onwards and upwards
Sheikh rattle and roll
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Comment #107TDS, on another subject I read your concept of Striker vs CF and realised I always had a different view.
I always considered a striker to be more of a poacher reliant on positioning, awareness etc (Lineker and Fowler being two classic examples that come to my mind) whereas as CF is more your classic number 9 – dominant in the air, can hold the ball up and bring others into play.
To be fair I think the lines between anyone’s view of a CF vs a striker have always been blurry. A lot of players don’t quite fit any definition anyone places on them.
sparky55
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Comment #108Im off to boil me heed…
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Comment #109Ffs this again.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:37 PM
Comment #110Well I have to put my hands up and say I was wrong, I didn’t think Isak was a CF and said so, I thought he was a versatile striker. Eddie H says different and he knows his onions. I also thought he’d been bought to partner Wilson on the basis of, why would you pay all that for a striker then offer your other one a new deal, if you weren’t playing them together. It doesn’t look like he has any intentions of starting them at the same time so imo, we have to find another forward who can start with him and deputise for him.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM
Comment #111And if we are to have a striker as just a deputy or rotation option then it has to be someone more reliable than Wilson, I wouldn’t be surprised if we sold both Wilson and ASM for around £45M.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Comment #112How much do we think ASM would fetch, I can see him going back to France or LaLiga, don’t see him being worth more than £25M.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:45 PM
Comment #113I think we’d struggle to get our money back on Wilson but if Wood can go for £15M 😮
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:46 PM
Comment #114As an aside if someone offered my a fight based on a blog I would give them a location and a time (one that is convenient for me but likely not for my opponent)
I would show up, but they would never know I had turned up assuming they did show up. I certainly wouldn’t be getting involved in any physical violence.
Might just be my sick sense of humour as it would be easier to give someone a meeting place on a cold evening and just stay at home. But I am amused by the concept of sitting in my car and figuring out “that must be him, lets see how long he wait and if he kicks off on any passers by”
🙂
Ap
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Comment #115Milik would make a good 3rd striker good goalscoring record
The Taco Taker
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Comment #116Raj,
I think Isak can play as a CF, wide or in a front two. I think the reason EH hasn’t (and likely wont) play Isak and Wilson together this season is purley a complete lack of cover if one or both pick up a knock.
Next season might be different.
Ap
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Comment #117Shirley if pif sell us we can also attract Radcliffe or qataris to buy us now as we have shown the world our fanbase and potential so not too worried. However i think Rumayyan has fallen in love with the club anyway
Ap
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:52 PM
Comment #118The boogeyman is back. Im gonna go hide under my duvet 🙁
Vask
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Comment #119Raj
I’ll bite…
£25 million for maxi? Are you DRUNK?
In all seriousness though, I don’t think we will or should sell him.
Ap
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:54 PM
Comment #120Where’s Goalinton? Not been on for months