The Mag
·4 August 2025
Newcastle United players featuring most in pre-season – 450 minutes maximum and only 180 more to go

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·4 August 2025
With only 12 days to go until Newcastle travel to Aston Villa, interesting to see how many minutes on the pitch for each of the Newcastle United players in the pre-season friendlies.
So have the right players got the right number of minutes this summer?
Newcastle United have played Carlisle, Celtic, Arsenal, Team K-League All Stars and Spurs, with a maximum of 450 minutes available for each player (ignoring injuries, extended leave due to international duty etc).
With only next weekend’s St James’ Park double against Espanyol and Atletico Madrid still to come ahead of the serious stuff.
These are the highest to lowest in terms of minutes for Newcastle United players so far in pre-season (Just in case the breakdown for each player needs explaining: CA = Carlisle, CE = Celtic, A = Arsenal, TK = Team K-League All Stars and S = Spurs):
365 Miley (CA 45, CE 75, A 45, TK 90, S 90)
314 Pope (CA 45, CE 45, A 72, TK 71, S 81)
304 Osula (CA 45, CE 75, A 72, TK 81, S 31)
239 Gordon (CE 45, A 45, TK 90, S 59)
225 Lascelles (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, TK 90)
225 Alex Murphy (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, TK 90)
224 Willock (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, TK 89)
216 Schar (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, S 81)
216 Barnes (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, S 81)
209 Trippier (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, S 74)
209 Jacob Murphy (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, S 74)
194 Targett (CA 45, CE 45, A 45, S 59)
189 Elanga (CE 45, A 45, TK 90, S 9)
180 Burn (CE 45, A 45, S 90)
180 Bruno (CE 45, A 45, S 90)
174 Joelinton (CA 45, A 45, S 84)
170 Krafth (CE 45, A 45, TK 71, S 9)
166 Tonali (CE 45, A 45, TK 76)
166 Livramento (A 45, TK 90, S 31)
114 Botman (CA 45, CE 45, A 24)
90 White (CA 45, CE 45)
85 Ashby (CA 45, A 21, TK 19)
80 Hernes (CA 45, CE 15, TK 14, S 6)
78 Neave (CA 45, CE 15, A 18)
45 Parkinson (CA 45)
45 Sanusi (CA 45)
45 Shahar (CA 45)
45 Longstaff (CA 45)
45 Dubravka (CE 45)
45 Ruddy (CA 45)
25 Park (TK 9, S 16)
19 Thompson (TK 19)
18 Ruddy (A 18)
16 Hall (S 16)
9 Gillespie (S 9)
1 Alfie Harrison (TK 1)
0 Isak
0 Ramsdale
0 Vlachodimos
A massive 39 Newcastle United players listed above, with 36 of the 39 having played minutes in the five first team friendlies so far.
Interesting to see what the leaderboard will look like on total minutes, after the final weekend of friendlies at St James’ Park.