Six Newcastle United players named in this North East Team of the Season | OneFootball

Which Newcastle United players would get in your 2024/25 North East team of the season?

A bit tricky to be honest if you are a Newcastle fan, as most of us will see very little of the region’s other teams.

The bare facts on our main local rivals this 2024/25 season are that whilst NUFC won the League Cup and qualified for the Champions League by finishing top five in the Premier League.

Middlesbrough were tenth in the second tier and have sacked their manager.

Whilst Sunderland ended up fourth, a massive 24 points off the top two, then fluked both the play-off semi and final.

The simple thing for many fans would be to say that it should be a team of Newcastle United players, as NUFC were the only north east club in the Premier League and had such a successful season at the top end.

However, some local journalists do have an advantage, as they have to often cover more than one of the region’s clubs.

One of those is Scott Wilson of the Northern Echo, who has picked his North East Team of the Season and included six Newcastle players….

GOALKEEPER

DEFENDERS

TRAI HUME (SUNDERLAND)

FABIAN SCHAR (NEWCASTLE)

What a season Schar had. It didn’t start well, with a red card on the opening weekend, but from that point onwards, the Swiss centre-half oozed quality. His defensive work was excellent, but it was the quality of his raking long balls forward that really stood out. He even starred in midfield in the Carabao Cup win over Arsenal, and finished the campaign with six goals in all competitions. The perfect all-round defender.

LEWIS HALL (NEWCASTLE)

The most improved player of the season? Surely it has to be Hall. There were signs of what he might become at the end of last term, but this was the campaign when he morphed from a promising youngster into arguably the best left-back in the Premier League. He also made his England debut as an added bonus. His surging runs down the left were a key part of Newcastle’s attacking, and the Magpies definitely lost something when he suffered a season-ending foot injury in February.

MIDFIELDERS

DAN NEIL (SUNDERLAND)

SANDRO TONALI (NEWCASTLE)

Would Newcastle’s season have been anything like as successful had Eddie Howe not tinkered with his formation in the autumn, moving Tonali to a more central position at the base of his midfield three? It’s extremely unlikely. From the moment he shifted infield, the Italian immediately looked every inch the club-record signing Newcastle thought they were getting from AC Milan. The best central midfielder in the Premier League? He’s definitely a big part of the discussion.

BRUNO GUIMARAES (NEWCASTLE)

Newcastle’s captain fantastic. Howe’s decision to hand Guimaraes the armband last summer proved an excellent move, with the Brazilian’s passion and pride at leading Newcastle repeatedly shining through. Off the pitch, he became the focal point for the Carabao Cup celebrations. On it, he had an excellent campaign, dovetailing superbly with Tonali and Joelinton, scoring five league goals and starting all 38 of Newcastle’s Premier League matches.

FORWARDS

JACOB MURPHY (NEWCASTLE)

Murphy had his best season in a Newcastle shirt by a distance as he made the club’s problematic right-attacking spot his own. The figures speak for themselves – eight goals (his best-ever top-flight return) and 12 assists (a tally bettered only by Mo Salah). It was the way in which his confidence blossomed that was the most pleasing thing though, with the winger forming a hugely-effective relationship with Alexander Isak and providing a host of seasonal highlights as he cut in from the right and bent a series of long-range efforts into the far corner.

ALEXANDER ISAK (NEWCASTLE)

The best striker in North-East football, and perhaps the number one in the whole of Europe for much of the season. Isak had a sensational campaign, with his final tally of 23 league goals leaving him second in the race for the Golden Boot behind Salah. Isak scored all kinds of goals – tap-ins, headers and a succession of magnificent long-range efforts that have become his trademark. The best? It has to be the ferocious strike against Liverpool that almost burst the net at the Leazes End.

ELIEZER MAYENDA (SUNDERLAND)

Substitutes:

Anthony Patterson (Sunderland), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Jobe Bellingham (Sunderland), Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough), Ben Doak (Middlesbrough), Glen Taylor (Spennymoor).

An ‘interesting’ selection and no doubt many of you are naming certain Newcastle players who should have been included. After the season he has had, I would be interested to hear the explanation of how Dan Burn can be left out of a first eleven in the north east!!!