The Newcastle United Post
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Newcastle United rebuffed over Max Arfsten
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Middlesbrough have kept their man, and Newcastle United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Isaac Moran says Newcastle United went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Jun 2027
Business is business: Jacob Murphy goes
Swansea City paid $9.1M and Newcastle United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Sam Alabi at Newcastle United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Alabi is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market21 Jun 2027
Joelinton has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Newcastle United can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market21 Jun 2027
Grimsby 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Nick Pope in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Daniel Bentley arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Daniel Bentley has, at Newcastle United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Newcastle United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joelinton was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market Leyton Orient watching Bazoumana Touré
- The dugout Malick Thiaw gets it from the manager
- The dugout When it matters, Sven Botman plays