Newcastle United need to revise their transfer strategy – Go for these options | OneFootball

I love Eddie Howe and I think he is a solid manager, what he has done for the club and the players he inherited has been outstanding.

When it comes to transfer targets though, the Newcastle United Head Coach often mentions needing players with the right temperament and mentality.

With PSR giving limits on spending, are there really enough of these players that Newcastle United can actually afford with the budget available?

Yes, without PSR we could do what we want, but the truth is that it is here and we are years and years behind other clubs with our revenue streams.

Have the specifics of what Eddie Howe wants in players, hampered us?

Are these players just that little bit too far out of our reach? I believe so.

Forget for a moment about Bryan Mbeumo saying he wanted Man U. Eddie Howe liked him and he appeared to fit the bill. Could Newcastle have given Brentford the money they wanted? Yes. Could we have given Mbeumo and his agents what they wanted. Yes.

So why didn’t we?

I see it as a few factors.

If Newcastle United give Brentford £70m, that’s pretty much half the transfer budget gone.

Give Bryan Mbeumo what he wants and that’s the first domino when it comes to wages at Newcastle United. Isak will want more, Bruno, Gordon and Tonali will all want more…and why wouldn’t they? They have been top performers at the club and will still see themself above Mbeumo in terms of importance to the team and would like to compensated for that, just like any line of work. If I’m better at my job than the new hire, I want paying more than them.

That Mbeumo transfer goes from a big transfer to a colossal one in terms of PSR, but it’s the man Eddie Howe wants so we have to go for him, but at the same time try and keep the extra expenditure to a minimum. So throw some numbers into the Geordie PSR super computer (most likely an excel spreadsheet) and bingo, there is a price bracket that we can realistically pay.

Now the powers that be are going to try and make sure we have enough wiggle room as possible and start at the lower end of this bracket. Good business thinking, bad football thinking. Brentford aren’t happy, Mbeumo not happy.

After this happening three or four times with different targets, it looks like lack of ambition, poor planning, incapable recruitment team. Which results in fans not happy, players becoming unhappy and many of the transfers that could have been done, have gone.

Trying to give Eddie Howe what he wants, as well as keeping us in the black (and white) seems to be an impossible task.

We have brought in Anthony Elanga. What’s different to Bryan Mbeumo? About £15m in terms transfer fee and not breaking the pay structure when it comes to wages.

We went for Hugo Ekitike and that would have done the same. So we didn’t give Frankfurt what they wanted, so as to try and stay within our means, again this hasn’t went our way.

Newcastle United have moved on to Yoane Wissa, a good signing if we get him, in my opinion.

I just feel like the Eddie Howe wants and desires are hampering the window, unfortunately, we aren’t in the situation to attain these players yet and someone at the club needs to sit down and say realistically we can’t.

Amanda Staveley isn’t there anymore, and she showed in the Amazon documentary that she would act now, and find a fix later, with the acquisition of Anthony Gordon.

I certainly don’t believe Newcastle United will take that risk with PSR again. We lost two players who would have saved us so much money in this transfer window and received a goalkeeper we didn’t want nor need.

Newcastle United need to be realistic and look at the second and third option in each position.

Will a signing first, improve the team? Secondly, keep us within PSR?