Newcastle United’s transfer strategy is becoming clearer, with our focus already shifting to the summer after a January window dominated by outgoings in preparation for June’s PSR deadline.
The approach to June’s deadline in the summer of 2024 forced the last minute sales of Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh, with reports flying about in the run-up that lowball offers were coming our way for another of key players in a bid to capitalise on our desperate position.
This January has been quiet for the most part with more talk of sales than incoming signings, but it seems Newcastle have a plan in place and the hope of capitalising on vulnerable clubs in June.
Toon hoping to capitalise on June chaos?
Luke Edwards at The Telegraph has reported that Newcastle intend to do to other Premier League club’s what Brighton and Nottingham Forest did to us last summer and look to take advantage of those scrambling to sell.
The Magpies know they will be in a stronger position to land their first-choice targets in the summer and will have an eye on the clubs forced to sell in order to comply.
Not only will the club be keeping a close eye on targets who could be available at cut-price fees, we’ll be boosted by at least one sale, with Miguel Almiron all set to bank around £9-11m as he completes a return to Atlanta United. Others may also follow, with Lloyd Kelly and Sean Longstaff also linked with sales to generate further funds.
Newcastle have been linked with plenty of Premier League talent in Marc Guehi, Bryan Mbeumo, Anthony Elanga, Antoine Semenyo, Illia Zabarnyi and Tyler Dibling, so it’ll be interesting to see if Crystal Palace, Brentford, Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth enter June with a need to sell.
Either way, we’ll have to hope that another quiet January is followed by a busy and successful summer after a lack of first-team investment in 2024.
Newcastle hoping for Champions League pull?
On the subject of keeping our powder dry until the summer, it’s interesting to see what Mark Douglas has reported this week at the i.
He writes that part of Newcastle’s logic of waiting until the summer is also that, should we achieve Champions League qualification, we will be a more attractive prospect for top targets.
Big moves being delayed until the summer so we can offer prospective talent the chance to play football on Europe’s biggest stage makes some sense, but it could backfire.
It is an undeniably risky strategy, as we could have done with reinforcements NOW to maintain our push for a top-four finish, so we’ll just have to hope that not getting anyone through the door this month ultimately doesn’t cost us.
On the one hand, this sounds like the sort of gamble Amanda Stavely lost for us last year, costing her her position.
On the other hand, are we now on the other side of the rules, becoming predator rather than prey? -a different type of gamble!
davewallace(Quote)
thats all well and good, the problem is that we are probley the most unlikley to be a preditor as history dictates , as other clubs far more adapt to commerical nownce will be going out the back door with the deal in the back pocket while we are knocking at the front door
Trevor Arkle(Quote)
In case you are having difficulty with this we are the PSR-stricken rivals.
BykerBill(Quote)
BykerBill :-
You’re dead right, unlike the corrupt six who can still spend due to massive revenues we are also hamstrung by the unusable “wealth” so that we are unable to spend, then those same clubs who put the rules in place to restrict us wonder why when they ask us for inflated transfer fees we can’t do it.
PSR is only sustaining the corrupt six.
Manure just made the rules up as they went along regards Covid losses.
Joseph(Quote)
In case you are having difficulty with this we are the PSR-stricken rivals.
True, Byker, but only partially so.
We are (most definitely)not alone, and the EPL actually showing teeth (points deducted)has sharpened everybody’s thinking massively.
davewallace(Quote)
davewallace agree with you about Staveley, that gamble to support Howe with keeping players he was way to loyal with back fired, they knew what the rules were the harsh reality is they weren’t ruthless enough something Howe is guilty of when it came to selling, but I get the impression it won’t be happening again something I think Howe has been told
Darren Bebb(Quote)
Everyone has to deal with psr.. stavely did not get fired .. that’s a story without evidence pushed by the likes of Edwards and the legacy media tripe .., it’s all whatifery washed rinsed and repeated on blogs like this .. we just have to wait and see ..the positive going forward is that Mitchell almost beat Pep to two very good players but Pif declined to purchase .
Mike(Quote)