The Newcastle United Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
Odysseas Vlachodimos keeps Newcastle United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jacob Ramsey runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Newcastle United
Nick Woltemade 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Guimarães is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
Newcastle United see off Burnley
Three points for Newcastle United, 2‑1 the final word against Burnley in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jacob Murphy in the eights
A performance of 8.79 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Nick Woltemade
Marked 8.47 — 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Joelinton was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.40. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Peter Harris signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Peter Harris commits to Newcastle United for another 4 years.
In brief
- Market The Lewis Hall talk will not go away
- The terraces The press have found their man in Joelinton
- The terraces The stand has a song for Joelinton