4 reasons why this transfer window is proving so difficult for Newcastle United

I think everyone, including myself, expected a different transfer window to the one that we are having with regard to Newcastle United.

I wasn’t one of those that expected £30m+ marquee signings on a weekly basis, I was more in the £70m grand total region.

My expectations were seasoned PL players. Lads that would bring top flight experience to complement our current squads. The likes of Shelvey, Elliot, Dummett, Ritchie and Gayle have experience. They know what it takes to win, they know how it feels to lose and try to rectify it.

Unfortunately, as I write this, we don’t have any of the signings that I was expecting. I do still believe that they will come – but I also have resigned myself to accepting that my expectations may have been slightly higher than they should have been.


I think there are a few possible answers to that, all of which have been given as opinion by many of you over the last few weeks. Looking at all the evidence, listening to what people have to say, I think it is clear that nobody really knows the full truth, but, if we look at the most common opinions and try to analyse them – which ones make any sort of sense and which ones should be discounted: