Alan Shearer

They then have gone from being a club that has recruited so well.

I mean, look at Hall, look at Liveramento, look at... Hall's great, by the way.

Ternali, Brood, all these guys that they brought in for big money.

Isak was another one.

So they brought all these guys in for decent money and all these guys have been brilliant.

Yet this summer...

Newcastle's recruitment hasn't worked.

They've spent an absolute fortune.

Well, of course, yeah.

They were left in a really difficult situation, but...

With no sporting director and no chief executive, who was managing that situation?

Who was actually saying, right, if this happens, we have to have cover.

If he stays, fine, but if it doesn't, then who are we going to get?

And they went in, and I don't think they went in for so many players and lost out.

They went in for Mbwemo, they went in for De Lappe, they went in for Eketike, they went in for Sheshko, and didn't get any of those players and were left scrambling towards the end.

And there's no doubt they've paid a fortune there.

for some of these players.

Visser hasn't hit the heights.

He's a 10 probably, isn't he?

I think he's half and half.