The Newcastle United Post
Market12 May 2031
Bae Jun-Ho asks to leave Newcastle United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 May 2031
A falling-out at Newcastle United
Boubacar Kamara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 May 2031
Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sven Botman 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.
Market12 May 2031
One of our own: Liam Pearson joins the Newcastle United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Pearson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 May 2031
Adam Murphy steps up from the Newcastle United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Murphy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 May 2031
Newcastle United promote Simon Cook from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simon Cook has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 May 2031
Bae Jun-Ho gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 May 2031
A new system beds in at Newcastle United
4 games now in a shape the manager was not using a month ago. Changing a formation is easy and keeping one is not, which is why the second of those is the part that tells you something.
Squad12 May 2031
No place for Johnson Osong in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Newcastle United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured at Newcastle United
- Loan watch Trevan Sanusi keeps scoring at Mansfield Town
- Loan watch Trevan Sanusi wants to stay at Mansfield Town