How anybody can think this about Newcastle United summer transfer window…Baffling | OneFootball

The Newcastle United summer transfer window is now closed.

We can now take stock.

An ‘interesting’ three months of our football lives, a Newcastle United summer transfer window that won’t quickly be forgotten.

So, how was it for you?

How should we judge this Newcastle United summer transfer window?

A reminder of what we have just witnessed this summer:

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Anthony Elanga Aaron Ramsdale Malick Thiaw Jacob Ramsey Nick Woltemade Yoane Wissaa

(Teenagers Antonio Cordero and Seung-soon Park were also signed, as well as a number of other young players, ones for the future)

Lloyd Kelly (Sold to Juventus) Jamal Lewis (Released at end of his contract) Callum Wilson (Released at end of his contract) Isaac Hayden (Agreement reached to terminate his contract a year early) Sean Longstaff Sold to (Leeds United) Martin Dubravka (Sold to Burnley) Odysseas Vlachodimos (Seville loan deal for a year) Matt Targett (Loan to Middlesbrough for the season) Garang Kuol (Sold to Sparta Prague) Alexander Isak (Sold to Liverpool)

(There were also outgoing loan deals for younger players, including Antonio Cordero, Joe White, Tyler Jones, Aidan Harris, Trevan Sanusi and Travis Hernes (his loan deal includes option to buy at the end of the season)

So, taking all of the above into account, how do you feel now?

My conclusion?

I am absolutely baffled as to how anybody can see this Newcastle United summer transfer window as anything other than a huge success.

The question I always ask myself after any transfer window is…are Newcastle United in a better position now, that they were before that window happened?

I honestly think that if you don’t give a resounding yes to that question for this latest window, then you are kidding yourself, not being honest.

Maybe you have dug yourself such a deep hole of negativity due to the Alexander Isak nonsense, that you now find yourself incapable of climbing out of it.

If you are still in doubt, ask yourself this question instead and answer it honestly.

If you could press a magic button and go back to where we were at the end of last season, before the Newcastle United summer transfer window opened, would you press that button? A magic button that would mean none of the Newcastle United players had left and none of the new signings had arrived.

For me, you would have taken leave of all your senses if you did decide to press that button.

Newcastle United are now at a whole better level thanks to what has happened these past three months.

I would argue that having signed Woltemade and Wissa, Newcastle United are now in a better position than having Wilson and Isak. Never mind an Isak who no longer wanted to be here and indeed had claimed he would refuse to play if made to stay.

Yoane Wissa is a proven Premier League quality goalscorer and his 19 PL goals last season were the most of any striker who doesn’t take penalties. Nick Woltemade is an exciting young striker who could turn out to be a real superstar but at the very least will offer NUFC a very decent option now.

As for the business overall, in and out this summer, it has been spectacular.

Eddie Howe has signed four proven Premier League performers plus Serie A and Champions League experienced Thiaw from AC Milan and Germany international Woltemade who Bayern Munich were desperate to sign.

Whilst when you look at the squad of players Eddie Howe has now, none of the players who have left this summer, with the exception of Isak, would now be anywhere near making the 20 man matchday squad, never mind the team.

No disrespect to them and indeed many have put in great shifts in the past, but to move all these other players out (as well as Isak) and generate some pretty significant cash on top of the very significant saving on wages, it is honestly top class.

Could things have gone better? Of course they could have, they always could have done.

However, all we can do now is look at where the Newcastle United squad was back at the end of May 2025 and where it is now in early September 2025.

This team and squad are now in a far better position to win football matches moving forward than they were just over three months ago, especially as now Eddie Howe will have what other top teams have, a bench where he can call on five players in any match that aren’t far too huge a drop on the five players they would replace. The same when rotating the squad with playing almost every midweek now.