Why haven’t Newcastle United made a single bid for a player yet? | OneFootball

A question I now see regularly cropping up is – ‘Why haven’t Newcastle United made a single bid for a player yet?’

Any number of Newcastle United fans getting anxious, as not only have NUFC not signed anybody yet, but not even a bid going in for someone.

My first point would be, how do you even know there haven’t been any bids made by Newcastle United for players?

To which no doubt, the fans in question would say, well we’d have heard if there had been.

I always find it amazing that people can hold two such opposing views at the same time.

On the one hand repeatedly slagging off the media as a total joke these days, particularly when it comes to Newcastle United.

Then on the other hand, also having absolute faith that the very same NUFC media, will know everything that is going on and tell us about it.

The very same media who know nothing about pretty much any Newcastle United signing until it is pretty much sorted. Including that absolute classic two years ago, when out in America during pre-season, Eddie Howe at a pre-match press conference told the clueless NUFC journalists that no new signings were remotely close, when at the very same time Harvey Barnes was flying to join the squad having signed!

Just look at the pre-match press conferences during the season, how many times Eddie Howe (in a good way!) misleads the journalists AND the opposition. The journalists knowing nothing until the team is announced an hour before kick-off, with they and the fans only then finding out that a key player is missing, or returns unexpectedly after Eddie making us all think the opposite.

When people talk of ‘making bids’, they are basically talking about potential transfers that are played out very publicly, probably due to the selling club and/or the agents wanting it to be so, driving up as much interest from other clubs. No surprise then that players where you hear so much about bids going in for them, supposedly, just how often these don’t end up as actual signings.

Reality is that so many of Newcastle United’s major successes in the transfer market, have been played out in private. The negotiations taking place professionally and arriving at an agreed price, without endless media coverage of ‘bids’ going in, allegedly.

The recruitment team at Newcastle United will be constantly in touch with agents and other clubs, those conversations at all kinds of levels of progress on various players that United are interested in. For all kinds of reasons it will at times take as long as it takes, before all parties are ready and an official ‘bid’ will go in.

We all want signings to arrive ASAP but they have to be the right signings.

I know it is the way these days where due to social media and suchlike, football fans feel almost like it is their ‘right’ to be updated by the hour on what is happening at their football club. We also have of course these days the likes of Sky Sports and the rest with all those hours to fill every day, whether anything is actually happening or not. Never mind all the clickbait journalists/media desperate for your attention and willing to say literally anything to get it.

For what its worth, some of the more reliable NUFC journalists have stated that Newcastle United are having conversations with certain other clubs about players, probably via agents I would guess, with the likes of Anthony Elanga, James Trafford and Joao Pedro amongst them.

Who knows what the actual truth is on named individuals and often in the past it has been quite clear after a major signing, that the media have been given false info to lead them to think certain players were the targets, only for them to be quietly working on signing somebody else.

The idea that nothing must be happening at Newcastle United just because we aren’t getting spoon fed info via the media, is simply daft. My faith in Eddie Howe and NUFC getting it right (yet again!!!) in the transfer market will remain this summer, until it is proved otherwise.