Mark Walker

Left Forward - Newcastle United U18
5 Aug 2028
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The Newcastle United Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wins at Newcastle United

22 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Transfer targets

An offer of $18.2M for James Trafford

Newcastle United have gone to Leeds United 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Newcastle United

The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Newcastle United say no — this time

The offer from Everton for Kai Havertz 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 targets

Newcastle United rebuffed over Lorenzo Palmisani

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

Market

Anthony Elanga puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Newcastle United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

No deal for Kepa Arrizabalaga at that price

Newcastle United offered $1.3M; Arsenal 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

Words exchanged at Newcastle United

Nick Woltemade and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Newcastle United

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

In brief