The Newcastle United Post
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Jacob Ramsey takes the afternoon — 8.44
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jacob Ramsey provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Joelinton 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Newcastle United
Tino Livramento 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Jacob Ramsey sends Newcastle United past West Ham United
It finished 2‑0, and it was Jacob Ramsey’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newcastle United.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A smaller club would suit Nick Pope now
He has had enough of the noise. Whether Newcastle United can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A satisfied Jason Harris
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Jason Harris could afford to be generous.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Newcastle United pick somebody else ahead of Dan Burn
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sam Alabi, 17, gets his chance
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 17. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Fabian Schär
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- The dugout Fabian Schär has been promised minutes
- The dugout No place in the plan for Jannik Vestergaard
- Market Lewis Hall linked with a move away