Newcastle United failing with £60m striker bid from forced £68m sale – Time to calm down | OneFootball

For some Newcastle United fans, things have never felt so bad, a disaster.

The club having failed with a bid for £60m forward Joao Pedro.

On Sunday we found out that the Brighton player had always wanted a move to Chelsea.

Which to be fair, is a well trodden route from the Amex Stadium. For Brighton players, managers, coaches…

For Newcastle United fans who see the present day as a case we have never had it so bad, think on, think about what short memories you have.

At the end of the worst ever NUFC season for injuries and the Sandro Tonali suspension on top of that, United had lost out on a place in European competition beyond the end of the Premier League season, as Man City gifted Man U the FA Cup final (which was bizarrely held after the end of the league season!), which shuffled Newcastle United down to no European football.

Just when we were all left reeling on the ropes after that battering, the knockout blow when out of nowhere (in terms of Newcastle United fans finding out such a serious immediate threat) it emerged that the club had to find a reported £50m of additional revenue by 30 June 2024, or else NUFC would break Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

So it came to pass that on top of ‘only’ seventh in the Premier League and no European qualification, Newcastle United were forced to sell two of their most exciting young prospects to Premier League rivals, simply to appease the PSR Gods.

A year on and Carabao Cup winners Newcastle United are heading back into the Champions League after a one year absence.

The fact that NUFC will be doing so without Joao Pedro, is neither here nor there, in the great scheme of things.

Newcastle United have gone from the forced £68m sales of Elliot Anderson and Yankuba in June 2024.

To bidding £120m on Anthony Elanga, Joao Pedro and James Trafford in June 2025.

I simply don’t understand the doom and gloom merchants who are seeing Pedro wanting to go to a rival club as such a disaster. I bet pretty much all of them can’t even remember Joao Pedro when he played against Newcastle United.

From what it sounds like, James Trafford is almost a done deal, whilst I think every chance Elanga (who unlike Pedro clearly is keen on a Newcastle move, in my opinion) gets over the line as well.

If not, there will be plenty of other players on the Newcastle United hit list who will be achievable and who will be desperate to join cup winning Champions League competitors Eddie Howe and NUFC, a club that once again clearly has significant money they can spend in the transfer market.

Maybe that will even include a surprise PSR deadline day bargain, a forced sale from another club on Monday.