Alexander Isak, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes are simply three of Newcastle’s prime stars who’ve been linked with a transfer away from Tyneside this summer season, with curiosity in Lewis Corridor, Tino Livramento and Anthony Gordon additionally reported on.
However in some dangerous information for a lot of the Premier League and Europe’s elite golf equipment, it seems to be just like the Magpies are sticking firmly to their weapons and are intent on conserving the cream of the crop on the membership.
And it’s a stance that has extra than simply the backing of the followers…
From tabloids to the nationwide press to even the highest journalists within the trade like Fabrizio Romano and David Ornstein, a lot of Newcastle’s key gamers have been linked with a transfer away, even so quickly after the 2025 Carabao Cup last win and European soccer was assured for subsequent season.
Nevertheless it’s the sources near the membership who’ve reaffirmed that the present hearsay mill is strictly that: simply rumours.
The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards commented on the matter and shut down any speak that the membership can be tempted to promote their expertise if a ‘greater membership’ got here knocking.
In a submit on X final evening following rumoured curiosity in six of our star males, the North East reporter issued this reassuring message:
‘As I stated final week, you’re going go to listen to and skim plenty of stuff about Newcastle gamers being wished by this membership and that membership over the following few months. It will likely be relentless and far of will probably be garbage.
‘The remainder of will probably be designed to unsettle and destabilise sure people within the hope they push for a transfer. It’s a recreation inside a recreation. However Newcastle’s place is obvious and robust. They don’t need to promote they usually don’t need to promote their greatest gamers. They intend so as to add to them.
‘So until the golf equipment being linked with Isak, Corridor, Livramento, Gordon, Tonali and Bruno need to spend ridiculous cash they’re going to be pissed off. Not that it’ll cease the noise I’m afraid. Could as nicely will get used to it. Window shuts on September 1st!’
This comes after Liverpool have been linked with Alexander Isak, Lewis Corridor and Anthony Gordon in latest months, whereas Man Metropolis’s curiosity in Bruno Guimaraes and Tino Livramento has been reported on. For Sandro Tonali, the Italian media persistently recommend he’s being eyed up for a return to Serie A.
It’s not simply the followers and native media who’re expressing frustration over the fixed hyperlinks and rumours.
In an interview launched earlier this month, membership CEO Darren Eales expressed his frustration surrounding the large golf equipment and media trying to unsettle the squad, significantly within the latest run as much as the ultimate towards Liverpool.
“It’s half and parcel of the world we stay in, however it’s irritating, it’s a part of what soccer is, all people desires to have a narrative [transfer speculation] and speak about it.”
“However when you consider the expansion of Newcastle, now we have the ambition to be a prime membership. There’s a sense of annoyance as we’re nearly seen as the following class down and it’s honest recreation to speak about our gamers.”
It’s typically the case in fashionable soccer that such a disconnect exists between a membership’s house owners and their followers, which may result in these operating the membership to promote prime stars for revenue quite than trying to compete on the highest stage.
With that in thoughts, it makes it all of the extra reassuring that the Saudi Public Funding Fund (PIF) has strongly urged Newcastle to maintain ahold of Alexander Isak particularly in any respect prices.
In a latest piece for The Mail, Craig Hope insisted that Yasir Al-Rumayyan to maintain Alexander Isak in any respect prices, exhibiting his dedication to conserving the perfect striker within the Premier League on Tyneside to assist us compete with the perfect.
With the membership presently having no cause to promote, and (technically) the wealthiest house owners in soccer eager to see the membership develop, it’s wanting prefer it’ll be a protracted summer season for any rival followers envisioning gamers like Isak becoming a member of their membership come the beginning of the 2025/26 season.