Sven Botman

Central Defender - Newcastle United
11 Oct 2026
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Marked for Sven Botman

7 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Tino Livramento

43 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Nick Woltemade 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Alex Murphy is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Bruno Guimarães falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad14 Sep 2026

De Lucca gets the move he always wanted

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

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Sven Botman shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Bruno Guimarães

Marked 9.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match12 Sep 2026

Bruno Guimarães sends Newcastle United past West Ham United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Bruno Guimarães’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newcastle United.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

Kayden Lucas has seen enough of Arsenal

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Newcastle United, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match5 Sep 2026

Chastening afternoon for Newcastle United

A 0‑4 beating by Arsenal was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 32 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A first appearance Ethan Ndiweni will want to forget — 5.70

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.70, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Leon Chiwome at Newcastle United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leon Chiwome is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Guimarães 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tino Livramento 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Sven Botman 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Doors closed at Newcastle United

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Off the pace: Tino Livramento

A mark of 5.28 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

5 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market31 Aug 2026

Newcastle United pay Ajax $21.9M for a proper upgrade

Ajax did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $21.9M for Kasper Dolberg, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A defender's afternoon for Bruno Guimarães

Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A move Kasper Dolberg would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kasper Dolberg is living that version at Newcastle United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Bruno Guimarães 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Lewis Hall was immovable

22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Nick Woltemade

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A defender's afternoon for Sven Botman

Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Lewis Hall falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match29 Aug 2026

Kasper Dolberg sends Newcastle United past Brentford

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kasper Dolberg’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newcastle United.

In brief

3 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Zépiqueno Redmond would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Zépiqueno Redmond is living that version at Newcastle United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad17 Aug 2026

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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Newcastle United turn down Liverpool for Kacey Wooster

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Bruno Guimarães 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

A long bet from Newcastle United on Zépiqueno Redmond

He is 20, and nobody at Newcastle United signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Sven Botman falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Newcastle United promote Christopher Thompson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher Thompson 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Newcastle United promote Nathan Green from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nathan Green 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.

In brief