Since Mike Ashley’s arrival as owner of Newcastle United, much emphasis has been placed on his drive to develop the club’s youth system. Recent news has broken that Mike Ashley is has apparently given the go ahead to invest around £15 million in youth prospects over the next three years. [...]
With our paper-thin squad now just crossing the season half-way mark and our two talismen leaving for their respective international duties, NUFC’s starting XI is starting to need a little re-moulding. Who will be given the mantle up front? Is Danny Guthrie really the man to replace Cheik Tiote? Will [...]
… my true love gave to me, Three French men! Two Timmy Dives and a Pardew in a pear tree!
After already snaffling Mehdi Abeid in the summer, we are apparently raiding RC Lens again for their wonderkid Sofiane El-Bekri. Dubbed the next Samir Nasri, Sofiane has already attracted interest from a host of clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur but according to L’Equipe it is Newcastle who are leading the race [...]
There is plenty of reaction and ire floating around at the moment regarding the name change at St James’ Park. I’ve no doubt there will be more to follow aswell as everyone gets round to having their say, and with little football on the horizon it’s sure to dominate the [...]
Look back at any statement that has been made regarding the future of Newcastle United, and you’ll see that youth development features heavily in pretty much all of them. It’s a clear strategy from the club. We’ll try and produce our own players to go along with the more experienced [...]
With a lot of people hailing Newcastle’s strong midfield strength and depth it made me wonder how it stacked up against our Premier League rivals. I’m going to compare both our wingers and our central midfield separately against all of the teams I think we could be challenging with for [...]
One of the key performers for Newcastle is undoubtedly Cheik Tiote. In short, when he plays well the whole team seems to play well. Consequently when he has a more subdued game the rest of the team seem to follow. This may be cause for concern given that Tiote will [...]
I’m sure a few of the regulars will remember during the close season when I was doing a couple of youth team player interviews. That unfortunately died down due to my holiday. Then the start of the season came along which meant that I had other things to write about, [...]
Once this striker issue dies down we can start to think about the players we do have once again. And it might make us realise that we are not as hard done by as some are making out. Yes we needed a striker but thank goodness we didn’t go for [...]
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