Newcastle United Blog.

Another piece of good news, well hopefully some good news anyway, as it appears that Hatem Ben Arfa is about to finalise a permanent move to Newcastle. Local journalists started reporting the news on Twitter late last night, then national journalists such as George Caulkin and Simon ‘you’re a ***’ Bird also backed up the [...]

Alan Pardew has today come out and said what most of us have been saying all season long and has admitted that Newcastle need new faces in January. Part of the problem is strength in depth at Newcastle. We have a first eleven that can beat anyone on their day, but it’s when players are [...]

It looks like the players that Newcastle have now will have to make do until the end of the season, if you go by what Chris Hughton has said today. Hughton insists that he will not be tempted into making any new signings when the transfer window re-opens in January. The news will come as [...]

Newcastle seem to be getting the hang of this transfer window malarkey, as evidenced by the way business has been done in the last two transfer windows. It is just my opinion, but I would class the last two transfer windows as a success, and that success has been achieved without the club spending a [...]

Does anyone else have the feeling I am experiencing at the moment? Pack the jokes away, I mean the feeling of, dare I say it, happiness? At this precise moment in time I don’t think things could be going much better for a Newcastle fan. It’s all relative of course, and we could be in [...]

Well that is it for the summer transfer window, and all in all I have been pleasantly surprised with the business that Newcastle have conducted. Newcastle have swelled their ranks with five senior players over the summer, and one of those in particular has been rather eye catching. Hatem Ben Arfa is the signing which [...]

Sol Campbell could be in line to make his Newcastle debut against Blackpool in just under two weeks time. The Sunderland Echo suggests that Campbell is in line to make an appearance in the reserve derby match that is due to take place at the Stadium of Light tomorrow evening. If Campbell continues to prove [...]

The transfer window is nearly at an end, and I think it is safe to say that it has probably gone better than most Newcastle fans had expected. It could get better still should Newcastle pull off a rumoured deal for Robbie Keane, although at the moment that is all that particular deal is – [...]

Newcastle have completed the signing of 24-year old Ivory Coast midfielder, Cheick Tiote from FC Twente for a fee of around £3.5 million. Tiote has now been granted a work permit and will probably join up with the Newcastle squad after the international break next week. Tiote becomes signing number four of the summer and [...]

Newcastle have made signing number four of the summer by securing the services of Ivory Coast midfielder Cheick Tiote from FC Twente for a fee believed to be around £3.5 million. The move is still not 100% completed as both clubs and the player have to wait and see whather or not a work permit [...]