For round figures they brought in around £90m or so in transfer fees. It’s an interesting mix of players and I think overall we’ve ended up with a stronger first eleven (when fit) but would you swap our current first eleven for this lot?
A journalist told me at the start of the season that it was easier to write about Newcastle when making headlines for the wrong reasons. Perhaps now the task is just as easy writing about the club for the right ones.
Very little can beat a match day when the circus/pantomime rides into town and up to St.James’ Park. Against Liverpool we were spoilt for choice as the pantomime baddies lined up to take the applause…
Jose Enrique looked a lonely figure when he pulled on the keeper’s shirt after Reina’s departure, what about the night though when Newcastle used three goalkeepers and let in eight!
Jonas on Davide Santon; “He loves to get forward. He sometimes has to know the moment to go and the moment to stay back but he is young, he will learn that. He’s so young, has too much energy and maybe he just wants to show what he can do.
Enrique left because Mike Ashley didn’t share his ambitions for Newcastle.
He is a class player who I loved to watch, never gave less than 100% and was more than happy to stay and help deal with the fallout of relegation. What is there not to like and respect?
