Simon Jordan delivers verdict on big summer ahead for Newcastle United
Newcastle United's financial results have been the hot topic of discussion all day today, particularly how the club has sold assets to subsidiary companies to improve the bottom line.
However, aside from the financial jiggery pokery, which we believe is the official parlance, it was revealed by CEO David Hopkinson that Newcastle are likely going to have to sell to buy in the summer.
There is money there to be spent, but it's not as much as many people had thought, and of course, the financial restrictions in place cut into the budget even more.
It's therefore more likely that the sale of one or two 'stars' will have to be the reality for the Magpies this summer in order to fund a rebuild after an indifferent season. Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Tino Livramento are three players who could be sacrificed for the sake of moving forward.
Simon Jordan expects a frustrating summer for Eddie Howe
Speaking about the potential disruption to the squad in the summer, TalkSPORT's Simon Jordan even went as far as suggesting Bruno Guimaraes could be a casualty of this shift in transfer stance.
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"Well, if I imagine a difficult time for a whole raft of reasons, if you're selling. Now, people will say sometimes you have to sell players to refresh, and no club survives only on one decent player or two or three decent players, but they do build the best sides around them."So if you suddenly develop these wonderful players into actually being very, very good in English football, like Tonali, who got himself into all kinds of trouble, didn't he? And the reward for them with Tonali is that he'll go off somewhere else."Guimaraes will potentially go as well. I mean, they'll keep the players that they bought, like Woltemade and people like that, because no other bugger will want them.|But the bottom line is that I don't see how it can't be a difficult summer. I don't see how Eddie can't be more frustrated because in order to overcome the shortcomings of this season, they need to improve."
