The Newcastle United Post
Squad30 Jul 2035
The knee: Alberto Quintana out for 111 days
111 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Newcastle United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad30 Jul 2035
44 days out for Baylee Dipepa after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newcastle United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market30 Jul 2035
Matthew Litherland 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.
Market30 Jul 2035
Mikkel Damsgaard has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Newcastle United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market30 Jul 2035
Harrogate Town 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.
Market30 Jul 2035
Newcastle United sell Juan Pablo De la Reta for $1.9M
Juan Pablo De la Reta has left for Wolverhampton in a $1.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
Newcastle United rebuffed over Myles Lewis-Skelly
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arsenal have kept their man, and Newcastle United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
The paperwork begins on Devonte Ferguson
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Newcastle United have done the hard part with Reading, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
Ezra Mayers will not be coming to Newcastle United
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Wolverhampton is saying, and nobody at Newcastle United is enjoying the guessing.
In brief
- Boardroom Newcastle United beat the market to Sergi Oriol from Norwich City
- Squad Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
- Squad Newcastle United lose David Wright