Hull City (a) ST holder sale now, 60pts

Update:
Manic Monday

A summary of what happened today on Barrack Road  - scroll down for further details:

Outbound:
Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest)
Yankuba Minteh (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Dan Ashworth (Manchester United)

Inbound:
Odysseas Vlachodimos (Forest)
John Ruddy (unattached)
Lewis Hall (Chelsea)
Lloyd Kelly (unattached)

Update:
Sacrifices made

Formal confirmation of two player sales by
Newcastle United arrived early on Monday:

Elliot Anderson joining Nottingham Forest and Yankuba Minteh signing for Brighton.

Sky Sports reported transfer fees of £35m for the 21 year-old Geordie and £33m for the 19 year-old Gambian. Both have signed five year contracts with their new clubs.

Athletic journalist David Ornstein revealed both deals on Sunday, as the Magpies and other Premier League clubs raced to comply with Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) on the last day of the financial year.

Anderson moves on after playing 55 times for Newcastle since his debut in early 2021 but failing to net in a competitive fixture - the closest he came was when having an effort away to Nottingham Forest wrongly disallowed.

Minteh meanwhile leaves without ever kicking a ball for the club, having spent the entirety of his year as a Magpie on loan to Dutch side Feyenoord.

Seeing two prospects leave Gallowgate while a crop of other older players remain is a blow, but current regulatory restraints mean that their sales come in a radically different context to the departures of Gazza etc.

Avoiding the very real threat of a points deduction, the transfers also meant that Howe's "crown jewels" remained intact; Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak and Bruno Guimaraes all still in his squad.

It remains to be seen how credible media claims of bids for those players were, or whether the PR message was managed in order to lessen the blow.

Quite how we managed to sail so close to the wind in the first place though is another matter, with the wisdom of the Sandro Tonali and Harvey Barnes deals now questionable with the benefit of hindsight.

Summarising Newcastle's attempts to meet their PSR commitments, The Athletic speak of "frantic attempts to sell players" to avoid a "double digit points deduction", with "more than half a dozen members of the first team squad" linked with potential exits.

They also talk of being unable to conclude any deals with clubs in Saudi Arabia - their transfer window opens today.

Interestingly, there still seems to be some doubt over whether Newcastle managed to comply with PSR, with claims that a third player sale was investigated on Sunday.

Update:
'Keepers arrive

Parallel to Anderson's City Ground move, Newcastle completed the signing of the Forest goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos for an undisclosed fee.

The 30 year-old German-born Greek international arrived from Benfica last September but made just seven appearances before losing his place to Matt Turner and then SJP old boy Matz Sels.

Vlachodimos made his senior club bow for Stuttgart and also played for Pananthinaikos before moving to Benfica in 2018. He was between the posts when Newcastle lost 2-3 at the Estadio da Luz in July 2022.

He becomes the third Greek international to join United, following defender Nicos Dabizas and midfielder George Georgiadis.



A second goalkeeper has joined United, 37 year-old custodian John Ruddy signing a short-term deal following the expiration of his contract at Birmingham City.

The much-travelled player made his debut for Cambridge United in 2004 and the bulk of his 550 senior games came for Norwich City, along with significant stints at Motherwell, Wolves and Birmingham.

Interviewed on the club website, Ruddy admitted that his primary role was to work alongside the club's 'keepers in training.

With Loris Karius gone and Martin Dubravka set to leave, bringing in Vlachodimos alongside Nick Pope and Mark Gillespie may well reflect budget considerations that didn't seem to be in play when deals for Burnley's James Trafford and Giorgo Mamardashvili of Valencia were recently rumoured. Were Pope to be sold of course all bets would be off.
 
PS: The previously-announced deal taking former Bournemouth defender Lloyd Kelly to United kicks in today, while confirmation of the permanent signing of Lewis Hall was also forthcoming on Monday morning. 

Meanwhile, a pair of 16 year-olds announced their arrivals at United's Academy via social media on Monday.

Teenage striker Kayden Lucas was pictured completing the formalities of his scholarship at Newcastle.

Nicknamed "Chumpy", Lucas has been playing for Somerset-based Clevedon Town.

And central defender Aaron Epia has signed for the Magpies following his release by Everton. He featured for United U18s on trial late last season.

Update:
Dan deal done

Confirmation also came on Monday that Newcastle and Manchester United had reached agreement on a compensation package for Dan Ashworth, allowing the Sporting Director to begin work at Old Trafford.

NUFC announcement:

Newcastle United and Manchester United have reached an agreement for the immediate release of Dan Ashworth from his contractual obligations at Newcastle United.

The terms of this agreement will remain confidential between the clubs.

Newcastle United thanks Dan for his service and wishes him well for the future.

With negotiations apparently deadlocked and Red Devils shareholder Jim Ratcliffe making unhelpful public pronouncements about the situation, arbitration had looked likely.

Instead though the two clubs are said to have achieved a settlement that ends the five month period of gardening leave that Ashworth was placed under when news of an approach for him became known.

No details of the compensation amount have been divulged as yet, but it appears that it was agreed in time to count towards the club's PSR calculations in the financial reporting period ending on Sunday. Whether that weakened Newcastle's position in the negotiations remains uncertain. 

The little matter of Newcastle securing a replacement Sporting Director can now also proceed, assuming that they intend to retain that existing management structure.

Euros:
Trio remain

Last 16 ties:

Sun 30.06.2024 England 2-1 Slovakia
Martin Dubravka kept a clean sheet for 94 but then conceded twice in quick succession as his side exited during extra time.

Kieran Trippier limping off after 66 minutes with his side trailing 0-1 while Anthony Gordon was an unused substitute. 

SJP old boy Ivan Toney was brought on in second half added time and claimed an assist for Harry Kane's winner.

Sun 30.06.2024 Spain 4-1 Georgia
All three ex-Magpies were on the bench, with Mikel Merino the only one to get any pitch time when introduced in the 81st minute.

Sat 29.06.2024 Switzerland 2-0 Italy
Schar started - played 90 minutes.

Sat 29.06.2024 Germany 2-0 Denmark

Mon 01.07.2024 France 1-0 Belgium
Mon 01.07.2024 Portugal(p) 0-0 Slovenia
Tue 02.07.2024 Romania v Netherlands (5pm)
Tue 02.07.2024 Austria v Turkey (8pm)

QF ties:

Fri 05.07.2024 Spain v Germany (5pm)
Fri 05.07.2024 Portugal v France (8pm)
Sat 06.07.2024 England v Switzerland (5pm)
Sat 05.07.2024 team tbc v team tbc (8pm)
 
Five ex-Magpies remain at the Euros: Joselu, Mikel Merino and Ayoze Perez (Spain), Ivan Toney (England) and Gini Wijnaldum (Netherlands).

Coral price the Euro 2024 victors as follows:

England 7/2
Spain 4/1
Germany 9/2
France 13/2
Portugal 13/2
Netherlands 11/1
Switzerland 14/1
Austria 16/1

New customers gain a £40 bet when staking £10 here (T's & C's apply).

Compo:
Three Lions giveaway

In addition to their club-specific hats, Football Bobbles also boast a selection of England headwear in their catalogue (NB: other countries are available).
  
We have one of their Shearer 92 bucket hats and to be in with a chance of winning it, email your answer to the question below to [email protected] subject Hats:

Which future Newcastle United left back lined up with Shearer on the occasion of his England debut against France at Wembley in February 1992? 

Closing date is 11pm on Friday July 5th. No age limit, open to anyone on the planet but delivery must be to a UK address. One entry each please per person.

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2024/25:
Tigers tickets on sale

Tickets for Newcastle's pre-season visit to Championship side Hull City on Saturday July 27th (2pm) are now on sale to season ticket holders with 60 points.

The first points drop is at 2pm on Tuesday.

Ticket prices are as follows;
Adult (23-64) - £15
Senior (65+) / 16-22 Years - £7.50
Juniors 11-15 Years - £7.50
Juniors (2-10) - £3.50

There will be a limited season ticket holder ballot for those who do not meet the away points threshold and NUFC emphasise that tickets cannot be resold or transferred. 

Sky Sports claim a 4,500 allocation for United on their ninth visit to Hull's current stadium: 

Toon @ KCOM/MKM Stadium:
(PL games unless otherwise stated)

2018/19 drew 2-2 Joselu, Perez FR
2016/17 drew 1-1 Diame (lost 1-3 pens) LC
2014/15 won 3-0 Cabella, Ameobi, Gouffran
2013/14 won 4-1 Sissoko 2, Remy, Anita
2008/09 drew 1-1 S.Taylor
2008/09 drew 0-0 FAC
2007/08 lost 0-1 FR
2003/04 won 4-0 Chopra 2, Shola, Cort FR

Jacob Murphy, Jamaal Lascelles and Sean Longstaff remain in the first team squad from the 20 players who featured in 2018.

Confirming the Hull visit, Sky also report that "The Magpies will have already spent a week training in Germany." They don't give any further details but it's assumed they'll play at least one game during that training camp.

Leeds United have advised their fans of a blanket ban by German authorities on crowds at any pre-season games in that country.

Contradicting that claim though, two other EFL sides have advertised ticket allocations for similar kickabouts.

Coventry City fans will be able to attend their visit to Darmstadt in Germany, while Notts County followers can buy tickets for a meeting with Duisburg.

Following the success of last season's Sela Cup at SJP it was widely predicted that it would be repeated in 2024.

However that seems to be in doubt, with difficulty in securing three opponents leading to claims that United will play back to back home friendlies as in 2022.

The Newcastle United Supporters Club (NUSC) report that the two games at SJP could be on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th August rather than the previously-thought Saturday and Sunday as per 2023. 

There's still no word of opponents at SJP, with the rumour that a Spanish club have been lined up as yet unconfirmed.

Online searches reveal that La Liga sides Athletic Bilbao, Girona, Rayo Vallecano, Sevilla and Valencia all have pre-season fixture elsewhere that weekend.

Nippon 5:
Totally wired

Ahead of United's first games there in almost 30 years, our Japan correspondent Simon Moran recounts his early online experiences here

Internationals:
Copa latest

Two Magpies are at the Copa America, with Paraguay and Brazil both in Group D: 

Bruno Guimaraes (Brazil):
Fri 28.06.2024 Paraguay (n) won 4-1
Started - played 72 minutes.

Tue 25.06.2024 Costa Rica (n) drew 0-0
Started - played 90 minutes.

Wed 03.07.2024 Colombia (n) Santa Clara

Miguel Almiron (Paraguay):  
Fri 28.06.2024 Brazil (n) lost 1-4
Started - played 78 minutes.

Mon 24.06.2024 Colombia (n) lost 1-2
Started - played 59 minutes.

Tue 02.07.2024 Costa Rica (n) Austin

2024/25:
U21s learn cup foes

Newcastle U21s are one of 16 Premier League clubs entering this season's EFL Trophy, aka the Bristol Street Motors Trophy.

The group stage draw has placed them in Northern Group H and sees them visit Bradford City, Mansfield Town and Rotherham United.

The EFL list our ties as follows:

03.09.2024 Bradford City (a)
08.10.2024 Rotherham United (a)
12.11.2024 Mansfield Town (a)

This will be the eighth time that United have entered the Trophy, but they've failed to win a game in any of the last five seasons.

Sky Sports will televise all ties in this competition live in the UK next season. 

Update:
Teenager linked

Wednesday brought claims that Newcastle were close to completing the signing of 19 year-old Serbian Miodrag Pivas. 

The defensive midfielder was pictured on Tyneside ahead of a proposed switch from Serbian Super League side FK Jedinstvo.

2024/25:
Saints up first

Newcastle's Premier League season begins with a home game against newly-promoted Southampton on Saturday August 17th.

That game wasn't selected for live UK TV transmission and has a 3pm kick-off.

Fixture list is online here 

Notes: 

Dates and kick-off times are subject to alteration, aside from the Southampton home opener and the final day fixture round.

Re: rescheduling, the PL are "committed to giving supporters a minimum of six weeks’ notice on UK broadcast selections until December 2024, and five weeks’ from January 2025 until Matchweek 37."

They've now also published "windows" during which those changes will appear, rather than specific days as in previous seasons:

Aug/Sep: 18th June to 5th July
Oct: 22nd July to 19th August
Nov: 2nd to 13th September
Dec/Jan: 16th September to 14th October
Feb: 14th November to 9th December
Mar: 2nd to 24th January
Apr: 27th January to 28th February
MW35: 17th to 21st March
MW36: 24th to 28th March
MW37: 31st March to 4th April
MW38: Following MW37

The mid-season break has been removed.

For the ninth time in ten top-flight seasons, Newcastle kick off with a home game, while their season ends on Tyneside for the first time since 2020.

Both meetings with Liverpool are scheduled on Wednesdays but we'll face Everton home and away at the weekend. Scheduling our Goodison visit ahead of an international break means that it cannot be on the Monday. 

The only obvious change required due to PL sides playing in Europe is October's visit to Chelsea, assuming they win their two-legged Conference League playoff tie in August. 

All PL festive games are listed under the following three dates: December 26th, December 29th and January 4th. Regardless of that, games will move for TV transmission and be scheduled throughout that period with the exception of December 24th/25th.

The final season of Amazon's involvement as UK PL rights holders will see then transmit 20 live games over two fixture rounds - these will be the early December midweek one when we host Liverpool and the Boxing Day visit of Aston Villa to Gallowgate.

The FA Cup Final is on the penultimate Saturday of the season; with no PL games on Friday May 16th or Saturday 17th. All games that weekend including our visit to Arsenal are listed as Sunday 18th. It's feasible that one or more games could be Monday 19th.

Aside from the FA Cup Final as explained above, the only time that PL games are scheduled on the same weekend as an FA Cup Proper round is the Semi-Finals. We're due to host Ipswich Town that weekend.

That means that those PL sides who fail to reach the Quarter-Finals face being idle for over two weeks in mid to late March. 

2024/25 season Magpie Mover tickets are on sale to season ticket holders here. The price remains £25, more details here. 

NB: ST holders must be logged on to their NUFC ticket account on order to purchase Magpie Movers.

Due to transport funding restrictions, NUFC members cannot purchase Magpie Movers. 

White here, White now:
Len remembered

Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of his passing, a special charity edition badge from Magpin celebrates the great Len White.

The badge is on sale here now and at the request of Len's family, all proceeds will be donated to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.

Although still omitted from the club's hall of fame, Len's place in Newcastle United history is beyond doubt; his tally of 153 goals exceeded only by Alan Shearer and Jackie Milburn and making him a worthy edition to the Geordie Legend badge series. 

Signed from Rotherham United in 1953, the Yorkshire miner served the Magpies until 1962 - injury limiting him to 269 games in our colours and depriving him of the England caps many observers had predicted.

Old boys:
Unlikely lads

SJP old boys with new clubs/jobs include:

Craig Bellamy (Burnley Interim Manager)
Adam Campbell (Hartlepool United)
Luke Charman (Hartlepool United)
Stephen Clemence (Barrow Head Coach)
Kyle Crossley (South Shields)
Ryan Donaldson (Blyth Spartans)
Cameron Ferguson (Inverness CT)
Dan Gosling (Westfield)
Jamie Holmes (North Shields)
Jack Hunter (Hartlepool United)
Joselu (Al-Gharafa, Qatar)
Dan Langley (Morpeth Town)
Michael Newberry (Cliftonville)
Ben Pollock (Chester)
Dylan Stephenson (Dagenham & Redbridge)
Jude Smith (Carlisle United)
Lewis Suddick (North Shields)
Ben Tozer (Forest Green Rovers)
Kell Watts (Cambridge United)
Callum Williams (Tow Law Town)

Ex-Magpies looking for new clubs include:

Mehdi Abeid (Istanbul Basaksehir)
Chris Basham (Sheffield United)
Ciaran Clark (Stoke City) 
Shane Ferguson (Rotherham United)
Dwight Gayle (Derby County)
Paul Huntington (Carlisle United)
Kazenga LuaLua (Charlton Athletic)
Jonathan Mitchell (Harrogate Town)
Moussa Sissoko (Nantes)
Islam Slimani (Anderlecht)
Patrick van Aanholt (Galatasaray)
Josef Yarney (Tranmere Rovers)

Off-field departures include:

Habib Beye (Red Star Paris)
Emre (Ankaragucu)
Steve Guppy (Nashville SC)
Kevin Nolan (West Ham)