Alex Tóth

Defensive Midfielder - Newcastle United
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Alex Tóth

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The Newcastle United Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Bruno Guimarães in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Newcastle United cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Match

Joelinton sends Newcastle United past West Ham United

It finished 3‑2, and it was Joelinton’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newcastle United.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jacob Murphy

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Germán Berterame

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Joelinton

Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Malick Thiaw

Marked 8.96 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Germán Berterame keeps on missing

Shots: 13, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Squad

Malick Thiaw finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Newcastle United have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

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The Bournemouth Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tottenham come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bournemouth did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Alex Tóth moves on

Newcastle United pay $8.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Bournemouth sign Chris Rigg, one for the future

Chris Rigg is 19, and Bournemouth have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Tempers go at Bournemouth

Evanilson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

No hiding place for Lewis Cook

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lewis Cook, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 15629. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

In brief

3 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

A long bet from Newcastle United on Josh King

He is 19, and nobody at Newcastle United signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Sven Botman signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sven Botman and Newcastle United agree another 5 years.

Squad

Bruno Guimarães in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Newcastle United sign Alex Tóth, one for the future

Alex Tóth is 20, and Newcastle United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Newcastle United count the cost of losing Michael Mills

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

A long bet from Newcastle United on Charles Richardson

He is 16, and nobody at Newcastle United signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief