The Newcastle United Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Newcastle United agree $10.3M for Babis Kostoulas
The clubs have shaken hands with Brighton; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Federico Chiesa
Newcastle United asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Newcastle United bid $17.1M for Stefanos Tzimas
The offer went to Brighton this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Newcastle United say no — this time
The offer from Manchester United for Joelinton was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $8.7M for Róbert Boženík
Newcastle United have gone to Stoke City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nico González wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Newcastle United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joelinton signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joelinton commits to Newcastle United for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Newcastle United
Joelinton 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sven Botman falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market Miodrag Pivaš attracts admirers
- The dugout Lewis Hall gets it from the manager
- Market Still no ink between Newcastle United and Kacey Wooster