Chris Waugh
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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I think Lewis Hall and Newcastle are hopeful that they will keep.
Tino Livermendo may well have gone, but I think his injury problems that he's had over the course of the last six months mean that that's less likely.
Harvey Barnes, age-wise, again, Newcastle intend to keep him, but you couldn't rule that out.
Bruno would be the one where if Bruno was to go, that really would send shockwaves through the fan base, I think, because
he's the the heartbeat of the side he's the captain he has this relationship with the club and if he was to decide that he wanted to go and Newcastle then had lost another player of that status even if financially he could argue maybe it would make sense just in pure financial terms if Newcastle got a big offer for someone who's going to be 29 later this year he's he's everything he's integral to to that side he means so much to them that that would be when I really worry now the the
The Tenali news was tempered with the news that Newcastle are signing Bazoumana Touré, who's coming in from Hoffenheim.
He's essentially Anthony Gordon's replacement.
And Newcastle are adamant that they have a plan in place whereby now players will come in and Newcastle will strengthen.
But they will be younger players.
They won't be of the same age.
sort of status and profile as the ones who are leaving and so it very much feels like a significant rebuild which is exciting in one sense but it also means that there may be a transition period moving forward where those players have to develop before Newcastle really can reach the levels that they have where they've qualified for two Champions League in the last four years and also won the Carabao Cup
so the Anderson one that was actually to comply with the Premier League's PSR rules as they were then which are no longer in place as of now and SCR squad cost rules moving forward actually domestically because it's an 85% percentage of turnover that you need to spend on footballing
matters Newcastle are confident that they won't breach that but the UEFA rules are far more restrictive and the irony is despite Newcastle not being in European competition in 2026-27 their transfer business is being governed by UEFA rules because they've agreed to this compliance agreement but also moving forward their intention is to be in Europe every single year and it's over a three-year rolling period so the Anderson situation it was it was galling at the time but basically Newcastle
The message had been for about 18 months before that stage, after Newcastle's big spends in the first two windows post-takeover, that they were going to have to tighten their belts.
And we as journalists were trying to put that message out, and we were left with egg on our face that when Newcastle went and spent £63 million on Alexander Isak, when they then went and signed all these other players, and over time it looked like, oh, you know, you're being fed the wrong information here.
But it turned out the reality was Newcastle kept kicking the can down the road and got themselves into a very difficult position.
The current hierarchy...
are adamant they can't allow that situation to happen again and they are Ross Wilson sporting director only arrived in October David Hopkinson the CEO in September and so this strategy that they are almost trying to unpick the current strategy and moving forward being a position where it's sustainable moving forward and they want to quote unquote normalize the sale of players but in a far more
in a way which is far more Newcastle's own interests and basically Newcastle are the ones who are in a strong bargaining position which you can argue despite having needed to sell Gordon and then deciding to sell Tenali the money they've recouped for them relative to the Anderson deal which they sold for 35 million pounds to Forest had to take a 20 million pound goalkeeper who they really didn't want and also didn't get a sell-on fee so get none of that 116 million pounds now and
They are in a far stronger position there, but the rules still mean that moving forward, they need to tighten their belts a little bit more.
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