Newcastle United have made their stance recognized on star gamers leaving in the summertime switch window.
Eddie Howe’s facet have fallen out of the Champions League qualifying positions after a run of three defeats in 4 Premier League video games, with Saturday’s hammering at Man Metropolis seeing us fall to seventh.
Alexander Isak, Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon have been no stranger to hyperlinks away over current home windows, and Newcastle’s current dip in type has seen rumours return.
In response to Craig Hope at The Mail, Newcastle United will NOT enable their finest gamers to depart this summer time – even when they miss out on Champions League.
It’s believed the membership are in a robust PSR place and don’t have any have to promote, with plans in place to develop within the coming months and put money into the primary crew squad – not lose a few of our high property.
Our star gamers are additionally tied right down to long-term contracts and will likely be held on to no matter if we safe European soccer, with the board anticipating our key males to be a part of an effort to qualify for the Champions League once more, ought to we miss out.
It sends a message to our dressing room that in the event that they need to play in Europe’s high competitors then they should earn it in black-and-white, and hopefully quashes discuss within the media too about our gamers leaping ship.
The membership additionally need to make it recognized to rival bidders and brokers that the likes of Arsenal-linked Isak, Man Metropolis-linked Guimaraes and Liverpool-linked Gordon gained’t be within the store window in a number of months time ought to we miss out on the highest 5.
Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson’s exits final summer time disrupted the squad and raised questions within the dressing room about participant’s futures however, with three home windows of no first crew signings and several other gross sales, the membership are lastly able to strengthen within the coming window.
A number of excessive profile names have been linked with strikes to Tyneside, with high quality right-winger, younger right-sided centre-back and (probably) a striker to interchange Callum Wilson more likely to be excessive on Howe’s agenda.
If we’re to qualify for European competitors this season we should on the very least add some depth to our squad, with our ranks already thinner than our injury-depleted Champions League squad of 2023/24.