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Fans have been sending well wishes and expressing their desire to sign left wing-back Jetro Willems of late. With Jetro, in turn, reciprocating the love. Paul Dummett and Danny Rose are both competing for the starting berth with Willems, so there's little to complain about on that side of defence. However, during the 2018/19 and 2019/20 campaigns we've seen Javier Manquillo and DeAndre Yedlin trade places either due to injury or form. With the arrival of Valentino Lazaro came

Another article I've decided to do during this pandemic and this time, we'll be looking at players we forgot signed for Newcastle. We won't be including academy graduates who didn't make many first team appearances before leaving as we'd be here all day, it will be senior players signed from other clubs but hardly played and I won't include Achraf Lazaar or Henri Saivet as they're still on the books here. Anyway, let's have look at some of our forgotten men. Jesús Gámez I had

So takeover speculation has re-appeared but whether it's a PR stunt to divert attention away from Mike Ashley's recent pathetic treatment of people working for his companies or it's actually real, the Telegraph (who've reported on deals being agreed for transfers involving Miguel Almiron, Ayoze Perez, Joelinton and Danny Rose before Sky in the past eighteen months) have reported that paperwork was submitted to the Premier League last Tuesday. Meanwhile, George Caulkin wrote i

I hope you are enjoying the series so far. We now turn our attentions to the left-backs. There is only two of them so it should not take too long Danny Rose Not long signed for Newcastle on loan from Tottenham, there has been a handful of games where he has been really good. But there is a lot of match fitness still to make up for. A couple of wayward passes and caught out of position a few times; there is definitely a few things he can improve upon. He will be looking for

This is part three of my player ratings for the season so far. The centre backs are the most controversial today as there are so many of them. Fabian Schar I am going to start with the elegant man. It has been a strange season for Fabian. He has scored two goals this season and, at the start of the season, played relatively fine. However, he has had minor injuries and has been in and out of the squad throughout the season. Last season, he was arguably our best player. Th

With Newcastle sitting fairly comfortably in the top half of the Premier League at the end of 2014, the board decided to stick with John Carver on an interim basis and restart fresh during the off season. It was a decision that turned out to not be without risk as the club went on their worst run of form in their Premier League history with several consecutive defeats brought them into the relegation dogfight. The fight went to the final day of the season and a memorable 2-0

It was always going to be difficult for us to get players in this January given the amount of senior players already on our books. Unlike previous years when we've named Jack Colback, Henri Saivet and Achraf Lazaar in our Premier League squad (despite the three only making one league appearance between them (which was actually the game that saw Saivet give the ball away for a goal early on before scoring a free kick four minutes later to equalise in a 3-2 win at West Ham in D

"Even though we still think about that and analyse the game, we need to try and move on to the next game. The more we try and dwell on the fact that we put a bad performance in, it will stick in our heads and the confidence might not be there. We need to try and forget about it, work hard on the training ground and together as a team to make sure we put it right. "In the second half we collapsed, and that's one thing as a team with the players we have, we've never really done

The FIFA 20 ratings have been revealed and whilst players have been talking about their own ratings on social media, I thought I'd go through all of our player ratings (including the players we have out on loan) and what it could mean for them on career mode. The rating difference from FIFA 19 mentions the rating from when the game was released. Martin Dubravka - 80 (+1 from FIFA 19) This is no surprise and it says something that despite turning 30 in January, Martin Dubravka

How Paul Dummett went from an outcast to one of Newcastle’s key players When Paul Dummett was told by Alan Pardew that he 'wasn't good enough' for the Premier League back in 2012, this would've been hard to take in. The reaction from the Newcastle born defender wasn't to turn to his agent to discuss handing in a transfer request and wait for offers from other clubs to arrive. Dummett took it upon himself to prove to his coach and to himself that he is good enough to play for

Following the news that Rafa Benitez is on his way out of Newcastle, I will be reviewing his tenure on Tyneside. This isn't an article I wanted to do now but I will be doing a similar one when Mike Ashley leaves. When Rafa arrived on Tyneside to replace Steve McClaren, the club was on it's knees and sitting 19th despite spending approximately £80m in the two transfer windows. Things didn't start well for the Spaniard though as only one point from his first four games (includi

I'm not going to lie, I really should've done more articles over the season but seeing as there's no articles reviewing the season, I may as well do it myself. It was another difficult summer for us with only around £22.5m spent (not including whatever loan fees we paid for Salomon Rondon and Kenedy), by the time the first pre season game came around, the only new face was Ki Sung-yueng on a free transfer from Swansea City whilst Mikel Merino left for Real Sociedad after his

“After leading for so much of the game, working hard as a team and defending well, for them to score in the 82nd minute is really disappointing. The manager said before that every game is a cup final – we wanted three points, but every point we take is another point on the board. They had a lot of the ball in the first half before we scored our goal. They had a lot of possession in the second half, as well, but they didn’t really cause us much of a threat until their man got

The first players to leave us in the summer were Vurnon Anita, Sammy Ameobi, Lubomir Satka and Haris Vuckic, who were all released at the end of their contracts. It took a while to make our first signing as Florian Lejeune finally arrived from Eibar on 4 July whilst Graham Carr left his role as chief scout and Matz Sels joined Anderlecht on loan. Later that week, we were linked with wingers Sheyi Ojo, Jesus Navas, Adama Traore and Jacob Murphy and the latter was signed from N

“I think we’re all disappointed because we’ve had four defeats in a row now. We had a lot of chances against Spurs – probably more clear-cut chances than they had – but we didn’t put them away. I think we can be proud of our performance, we played really well, but things happen in games and Harry Kane came up with a quality finish. That killed us a bit. That’s the thing with some of the big teams in this league. They have players with that extra bit of quality and they can ch

Beresford told the Chronicle: “It was great to see him get his new contract because he really deserved it for all his hard work. For me he is probably Newcastle’s best defender. I think his best position is in the middle of a back three and that 3-5-2 formation really suits him. He’s done very well but I still think he can improve further - especially going forward. Perhaps the manager puts the brakes on him a little bit and allows DeAndre Yedlin to push forward instead on th

“There are nine or 10 teams that could still be relegated. Being in the bottom three meant before the Man United game that everybody had that fear. We know now that every game is going to be important. The pundits may have written us off before the Man United game but you know as a player if you give your all you will have a chance. We have beaten one of the top teams and while it was a must win this has proved to be a confidence booster going into the Bournemouth game. “Our

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Dummett told NUFC TV: “It is an easy decision. I’m a fan anyway, so it’s something I wanted to do anyway. But with a manager like Rafa in charge here, who wants to keep you at the club to try and progress, it wasn’t a hard decision. It was an ongoing progress, it took a while to happen, but I’m happy it’s all sorted and I can now concentrate on playing football. After most games, at half time and full time, he’s always got advice for most players. Goalkeepers, defenders, midf

“When I went on loan to Gateshead they laughed at me and said: ‘What have you gone there for?’ But now they don’t play football anymore. They might have had more ability but I had to show the commitment and determination that some of them might not have had. There were players more highly thought of than me. James Tavernier was one, who is at Rangers now. Brad Inman was another. Phil Airey got a lot of headlines. I don’t think he’s playing anymore. In general I don’t think -