Heading into a huge summer for the club, there will be no excuses this time around after failing to sign any major first-team players in the previous three seasons.
January’s inaction has left Eddie Howe’s squad a bit short, but it’s anticipated that our short-term agony will yield to long-term gain, with our PSR troubles expected to alleviate, freeing up funds to spend.
Talk of transfers may appear premature just a few weeks after the winter window closed, but club scouts will continue to monitor and debate a number of targets.
Seven targets were considered on Tyneside.
Newcastle are reportedly looking for a new right-sided attacker, centre-back, and striker in the summer, with a number of targets already being discussed.
According to Luke Edwards of The Telegraph, seven players have been mentioned in recent recruitment meetings: PSV’s Johan Bakayoko, Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo and Dean Huijsen, Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, Lille’s Jonathan David, Celtic’s Nicolas Kühn, and Southampton’s Tyler Dibling.
Most of those names have been linked in recent weeks, with Bakayoko, David, and Kuhn apparently being monitored by scouts in Champions League action, but it’s fascinating to see Gibbs-White named again ahead of Sunday’s game against Forest.
While the source says that top targets have yet to be determined, there are a lot of exciting names in the running, with the club looking to bring in a mix of young talent and Premier League-ready players.
Newcastle begin the summer in a ‘position of strength’.
The club will be venturing into uncharted terrain in the next months, as it appears that we will enter the summer with financial power.
According to The Telegraph, this might be the most intriguing window since the early days of the Saudi ownership, with the departures of Miguel Almiron and Lloyd Kelly providing enormous ‘headroom’ from a PSR viewpoint.
Sales were imposed on us last June in order to escape penalties. However, the financial outlook for 2025 appears to be bright, which means we might attempt to capitalize on those around us who are failing to satisfy PSR rules and strengthen while others are forced to sell.
The aforementioned names will not be cheap, but it appears that there is room for a couple of large incomings following a few too many frustrating windows on Tyneside.
