The gift voucher doesn’t expire – Message to Newcastle United fans | OneFootball

Newcastle United have a match at Wolves to look forward to next.

With the home side having won only once in the Premier League since 9 March 2024, Eddie Howe’s side have to travel with confidence.

Especially as of the other 12 Premier League games they have played these past six months, Wolves have lost nine of them, including five of the last six at home.

Before we get to that next match though, we first of all have tomorrow (Friday 13 September) marking two weeks since the summer 2024 transfer window closed.

The thing is, even though it closed back on 30 August, the talk about it is seemingly still never ending.

I have never known anything like it.

Usually, once a transfer window slams shut, Newcastle United fans get on with it.

Not this time.

I understand the media doing this, constantly still going on about the players Newcastle United did AND didn’t sign. After all, provoking disharmony at NUFC is in their interests.

However, with Newcastle United fans, I think so many of them are falling into this trap set by the media.

It is almost like nothing else matters.

The media and indeed many NUFC fans, were predicting carnage in the summer transfer window, with losing struggles predicted when trying to keep hold of the likes of Alexander Isak, Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon.

Newcastle United kept all their best players.

We all know the reason why two young promising squad players were sold. It was to meet the three year PSR period limits where we had bought the likes of… Isak, Bruno and Gordon.

It is what it is. We have to move on from that and we are, or at least many of us are.

I find it crazy that so many Newcastle United fans are willing to go along with certain journalists and make out that this summer window was a total disaster, no positives etc etc.

Lloyd Kelly was a class signing, a £30m+ 25 year old who we got as a free agent and who is excellent as a left-back or left side of central defence.

Lewis Hall has so much quality and reminded us of that with a couple of great assists this week for the England Under 21s. Only a matter of time before he is playing for the senior England side. At £28m he will prove a massive bargain in years to come, similar to Tino Livramento on the other side of the pitch. Newcastle having invested these last two summers on real quality for the future at full-back.

As for up front, Newcastle United fans had been desperate for another option. United kept Callum Wilson as back up to Alexander Isak AND signed raw young striker Will Osula, who is big with pace and looks certainly to have potential on the little we have seen.

Yes, it was disappointing we didn’t also get Marc Guehi, or whoever else.

However, this Newcastle United gift voucher doesn’t have an expiry date.

That £70m or whatever that was available for Guehi, is STILL available moving forward.

It isn’t Mike Ashley where the cash would just disappear, even when major sales happened.

This isn’t like deadline day in January 2011, when Mike Ashley sold United’s biggest asset for £35m.

Then ten days after Andy Carroll left, he ‘replaced’ him with 97 year old Shefki Kuqi.

He made six appearances in the end and it was like one of us plucked from the crowd, painful to watch as he tried to run around and make an impression, at a level he was hopelessly nowhere near.

Shefki Kuqi admitted that he was amazed to to join Newcastle United and admitted that this had made him ‘one of the happiest footballers in the world!’

He was released on 25 May 2011 without scoring.

My fellow Newcastle United fans, we have moved on now.

Better times are ahead and that money that wasn’t spent in this latest transfer window will be invested wisely in the near future, the gift voucher will be spent.