2024/25:
Home friendlies:
public sale now

Tickets for Newcastle's two home pre-season games are now on general sale priced at £25 and £20 each, with concessions £15 and £10.

There's no weekend ticket or discount for purchasing both days together. 
 
Rather than the four team Sela Cup format of last year, just three sides are involved this time round with only two games taking place not four:

Fri 9th Aug NUFC v Girona (7.30pm)
Sat 10th Aug NUFC v Brest (4pm)

That mirrors the arrangements of 2022, when Eddie Howe's side played home games on the Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

NUWFC will also be in friendly action against opposition tbc on the Saturday (1pm). Buying a ticket to the Brest game includes that.

Labelled as the Sela Weekender, Friday's game is a stand-alone fixture, with the winner's of the men's and women's games on Saturday awarded Sela Cups.

It promises to be a busy weekend for Spaniards Girona, who face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium the following evening, Saturday August 10th.

French side Brest aka Stade Brestois 29 meanwhile visit Gallowgate a week after facing Juventus in Italy.

Both our opponents finished third in their respective leagues last season, meaning that they will be playing Champions League football next season.

Incoming:
New PM installed

Newcastle United confirmed their new Sporting Director on Thursday, appointing Paul Mitchell in succession to Dan Ashworth.

The 42 year-old Mancunian was most recently with Monaco, leaving there in June 2023 since when he'd been linked with posts at several Premier League clubs. 

That followed various recruitment roles at MK Dons, Southampton, Spurs and RB Leipzig - working with Mauricio Pochettino at both Southampton and Spurs.

Part of Paul's remit at Monaco was in his own words, "creating one aligned strategy" across both the principality club and Belgian Pro League outfit Cercle Brugge - part-owned by Monaco since 2017.

Given the noises coming out of Gallowgate recently regarding a multi-club model, that part of his CV may prove to be significant. 

Mitchell's playing career was ended by injury aged 27 when he was on the books at MK Dons, following spells in the lower leagues at Wigan Athletic and Halifax Town.

Delving into our footballing family tree, the only connection we can find between him as a player and a current Magpie is Wigan; his time as a Latic overlapping with that of first team coach Graeme Jones. 

Update:
Miley blow

An exclusive Chronicle report on Wednesday confirmed that Lewis Miley has suffered a fresh injury blow and will miss the opening months of the season.

The 18 year-old made the most recent of his 26 senior appearances last season in the FA Cup Quarter Final loss to Manchester City back in March. 

Missing the remainder of the campaign due to a back injury while on England duty, Miley has now suffered metatarsal damage that will require corrective surgery.

Recovery from that procedure is anticipated to sideline the midfielder for around 12 weeks.

2024/25:
Hull (a) update

The season ticket points requirement for United's pre-season trip to Hull City dropped to 9 points at 2pm on Friday.

The next scheduled reduction is at 2pm on Monday.

Eddie Howe's side travel to the Championship Tigers on Saturday July 27th (2pm) and received an allocation of 4,500 places. 

NUFC's re-launched ticket website is online here

The club confirm that the usual away ticket sale conditions will apply, including a limited ballot once the main allocation sells out.

They also emphasise that tickets cannot be resold or transferred and threaten random ticket checks on the day.

There's no news as yet of pre-season away games apart from Hull and the two in Japan, Sky Sports mentioning a week-long training camp in Germany to tie in with activities related to kit provider adidas.

Whether that would include any public games remains unclear though, amid claim and counter-claim from several EFL clubs whether pre-season games in Germany must be played behind closed doors. 

Update:
New intake: 
details awaited

Official confirmation of new additions to Newcastle's Academy is yet to arrive, but social media postings reveal the following:  

Kayden Lucas striker, Clevedon Town.
Aaron Epia defender, Everton.
Ezra Tika-Lemba defender, West Ham.

Also pictured after accepting scholarship offers are two midfielders who were already on our books:

Matheos Ferreira
Mohamed Waddani

PS: claims of two further midfield arrivals continue to bounce around cyberspace; Rory Finneran of Blackburn Rovers and CJ Afumuzor from Portsmouth. 

Update:
Transfers

First team arrivals and departures:

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

Outbound:
Elliot Anderson Nottingham Forest
Yankuba Minteh Brighton
Paul Dummett unattached
Matt Ritchie unattached
Loris Karius unattached
Kell Watts unattached
Jeff Hendrick unattached  

Old boys:
Unlikely lads

SJP old boys with new clubs/jobs include:

Kyle Cameron St.Johnstone (loan)
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
Scott Parker Burnley Manager
Ben Pollock Chester
Dylan Stephenson Dagenham & Redbridge
Jude Smith Carlisle United
Lewis Suddick North Shields
Ben Tozer Forest Green Rovers
Dan Ward South Shields
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

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