Thomas Cook

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Newcastle United U18
16 Oct 2027
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The Newcastle United Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Newcastle United plan ahead with Amadou Onana from Aston Villa

The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Amadou Onana comes from Aston Villa for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.

Transfer targets

Newcastle United rebuffed over Robin Roefs

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sunderland have kept their man, and Newcastle United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Amadou Onana gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Amadou Onana has just signed for Newcastle United, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Watford come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

No deal for Mateus Mané at that price

Newcastle United offered $6.1M; Wolverhampton said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

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

A falling-out at Newcastle United

Joelinton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Newcastle United

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The terraces

Newcastle United spend $62.7M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $62.7M for Amadou Onana, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

In brief