You would think Newcastle United were a sitting duck | OneFootball

The way that journalists, pundits, rival fans and others go on, you would think Newcastle United were a failing club.

That NUFC were a sitting duck (ED: Definition – ‘A person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger’).

Newcastle United simply waiting, ‘with no protection’, for rivals to come in and easily take away United’s best players.

The reality of course is just a ‘little’ different.

That reality is, Newcastle United having just had their best ever season in living memory (for all but those NUFC fans who are aged 80+).

A trophy banked, a second Champions League campaign in three years to look forward to.

A club on the up.

Plus of course, the best manager in the Premier League bar none.

Newcastle United have had to deal with a very difficult PSR position, due to essential squad building needed thanks to a decade and a half of Mike Ashley neglect.

However, it is laughable when the media and fans of rival clubs keep referring to PSR and claiming (dreaming!) that this will force Newcastle United to sell their star players if any club knocks on the door.

There is no PSR pressure whatsoever for Newcastle United to sell any of their best players.

Indeed, when it comes to contract pressures, no Premier League club is in a better position than Newcastle United. Due to deals agreed to extend existing contracts, none of NUFC’s biggest assets, their key players, have less than three years left on their current deals.

You can never say never in football but suggesting that any Newcastle United players would now choose to walk away, is almost like claiming that some Newcastle fans would now think call it a day and move on to another club.

Players such as Bruno Guimaraes, Lewis Hall, Joelinton, Tino Livramento, Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak have all worked so hard these past two and three years to get Newcastle United into this position of trophy winners and Champions League competitors.

So the question is, after putting in all that hard work to achieve this, why would you now choose to walk away, instead of reaping the benefits of their contributions in recent years?

Why wouldn’t you want to be on another open top bus parade through Newcastle City Centre in 2026, why wouldn’t you want to be on the Town Moor next year listening to Bruno Guimaraes singing his tribute to Sandro Tonali…?

If one of Newcastle’s best players had any interest in moving elsewhere, then it would have to be surely to another Premier League club that is trophy winning and qualifying regularly for the Champions League, which tends to narrow it down a ‘little’ bit.

Then you turn that around and with all of these key players on contracts of three years or more, why on earth would Newcastle United have any kind of interest in selling their best players to the very clubs they are trying to get/stay ahead of?