Kieran Trippier – They’re having a laugh | OneFootball

Over a week ago, claims it was imminent, Kieran Trippier set to leave Newcastle United any day soon.

The ‘exclusive’ came from media in Turkey.

The journalist in question reckoned he had the inside track on this transfer ‘exclusive’, that Kieran Trippier was going to join Eyupspor.

The Turkish journalist even stated that Eyupspor had already met Kieran Trippier in person for talks ahead of the move.

As usual, the English media just blindly copied this ‘exclusive’ from Turkey, saying Kieran Trippier was going to be leaving, none of them even questioning whether this particular transfer ‘exclusive’ could be in any feasible way possible, never mind sure to happen.

The idea of Eyupspor attracting Kieran Trippier AND having the ability to pay the necessary transfer fee and wages. Well, it was just ludicrous.

Eyupspor are minnows in Turkish football, never mind football generally. They got promoted to the top tier for this 2024/25 season but in these past 15 years they have paid out less than £5m in total in transfer fees (via Transfermarkt). So with Newcastle United turning down three bids from Bayern Munich in January for Kieran Trippier, the third and highest being £12.8m, not sure how anybody could believe Eyupspor affording the transfer fee, never mind the wages!

This summer, Eyupspor haven’t spent anything on transfer fees after promotion, instead relying on loan signings and six free transfers.

Yet suddenly, the media in England (and Turkey) are blindly running these stories expecting us to believe that the Turkish minnows are now affording and attracting England international Kieran Trippier from one of the teams at the top end of the Premier League.

It is just embarrassing how the English media copy and paste these transfer tales without raising even the most obvious of questions.

The Turkish journalist in question, two or three days after his original ‘exclusive’, then added another… ‘exclusive’, claiming other clubs in Turkey were now competing with Eyupspor for Kieran Trippier, just a case of which of the three he would sign for.

We have seen this so often in the past, once the Premier League window closes and Newcastle United can’t sign any more players, you then get all the media claims of NUFC potentially selling or loaning players to clubs in those countries where their transfer windows close later.

Sometimes with these later closing transfer window stories, they can even sound feasible!

Sometimes they even actually happen!

However, this is when the claims actually make any sense. Such as when Isaac Hayden moved to Belgium on loan last September, after the Premier League window had already closed. If media, in England or elsewhere, claimed now that Hayden was going to go out on a similar deal to another country where the transfer window was still open, whether Turkey or another one, I could well believe it. Clearly the midfielder isn’t going to be playing for Newcastle United this season. Same with Odysseas Vlachodimos, our PSR signing in the double deal that took Anderson to Forest, he is another who could very well go out on loan this week.

However, the idea of Kieran Trippier doing so…

In the real world, the idea that Eddie Howe would allow a big player like Kieran Trippier to leave now, is quite astonishing. As there would be no option to bring anybody else into Newcastle United now, not until January anyway.

What makes it even more ridiculous with these media claims in both England and Turkey, is that pretty much all of them are claiming that Newcastle United would let Kieran Trippier go out on a loan deal.

So turn down £12.8m from Bayern Munich in January, yet Newcastle United and Eddie Howe supposedly happy for Kieran Trippier to go to some random club in Turkey on loan AND we are supposed to believe that Trippier himself would choose to do so???

If Kieran Trippier was going to leave, it would have been to a far better club and league than these ludicrous claims of Turkish clubs, whilst it would have taken a credible transfer fee for Newcastle United to even consider letting him go.

Fans (and media) are more than prepared to put two and two together and get four million. Yes, Kieran Trippier has only started the Forest cup match and has been named on the bench for the three Premier League matches, BUT he was the latest NUFC player to return from an extended break due to the Euros AND this summer he played more than any other Newcastle United international, starting all six England games before Gormless Gareth brought Luke Shaw back for the final, despite him having not started a game for England in 13 months and not started any football match for five months.

Kieran Trippier was excellent in the role he was asked to play on the left out in Germany, his ability and physicality clearly still very much there.

With Tino Livramento on hand, Eddie Howe has had the luxury of not needing to throw Kieran Trippier in at the deep end, I bet he wishes he’d had that same luxury with certain other NUFC players who had limited pre-seasons.

Kieran Trippier still has so much to offer Newcastle United, on and off the pitch, Eddie Howe making this abundantly clear.

The transfer window in Turkey finally closes on Friday (13 September) and I not only have every confidence that Kieran Trippier will still be at Newcastle United when we get to the weekend, I am also convinced that he will start at Wolves on Sunday. With both Trippier and Fabian Schar having retired from international football, Eddie Howe having the luxury of being able to work this international break with that pair, as well as Burn and Kelly.

I would put good money that this quartet will start at the back at Molineux, Kieran Trippier set to write another chapter this season at Newcastle United, in what was a sensational first post-takeover signing, made possible thanks to the player’s previous connection with Eddie Howe, who signed him for Burnley when he managed at Turf Moor.

Turning 34 this month and with real competition now from Tino, Trippier won’t play every match this season but that doesn’t mean he is no longer a very valuable member of this Newcastle United squad. Surely last season convinced even the most difficult to understand fans, that having a very good team isn’t enough, having the best possible squad is huge.