The Newcastle United transfer window officially opened on Monday 15 June.
I make it that today is the 16th day of the summer 2026 window.
The Newcastle United transfer window will close on Tuesday 1 September at 11pm.
So by my reckoning, after today there will be ‘only’ 63 more days of it to go.
Often, the most difficult thing is to swim against the tide of opinion.
Largely fuelled by the media of course, this Newcastle United transfer window is for certain doomed to disaster in the eyes of many (most?) United fans.
The further you swim, the deeper you swim, it is very easy to drown in your own negativity.
A lot of it is very understandable. Especially when the first thing you see every morning are yet more negative headlines detailing Newcastle United players that are definitely leaving, it can be overwhelming.
Surely no smoke without fire, surely the media aren’t making all this up and/or repeating lies, surely it can’t all be untrue, surely all of the best Newcastle United players will be leaving this summer.
I am sure there is truth amongst all of what is being claimed BUT not very much.
I would say the biggest factor impacting fans and makes them think it is inevitable that all of the best Newcastle United players will leave this summer, is due to last season’s Premier League finish.
So when the headlines say Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali, Lewis Hall are all leaving, fans thinking well of course the reports must be true, just look at where we finished last season in the league. Why would we believe the end result will be anything other than wholesale disaster and player departures?
This is where the Newcastle United transfer window thinking is flawed.
Short memories.
The 2024/25 season was the most successful in living memory, winning the Carabao Cup and qualifying for the Champions League as a top five club.
Yet despite that stellar NUFC season, all the headlines and stories we are getting now after no trophy and no Champions League qualification, we were also getting when having just won a trophy and finishing in the top five.
It has always been meaningless how Newcastle United have done on the pitch these past four or five seasons, the media have always been relentless in claiming United won’t be able to hold onto their best players.
Yet as we speak now at the end of June 2026, the only example the media have to back up their headlines is Alexander Isak.
There is absolutely no doubt, he did force his way out of the club and Newcastle United didn’t want to let him go.
I think Anthony Gordon is a very different case. Some time ago, for whatever reasons, Newcastle United decided they wanted to sell the former Everton winger.
Was he happy to join Barcelona? Definitely.
If Newcastle United had made clear they wanted him to stay for at least one more season, would he have done everything he could to force his way out against Newcastle’s wishes? I am very confident he wouldn’t have done that. I think Gordon would have given his best for the 2026/27 season, with the understanding he would then be allowed to move on in summer 2027 if he still wanted to.
I think this is the exactly the same with the rest of the Newcastle United first team players, including/especially Hall, Tonali and Bruno. If Newcastle United and Eddie Howe make it clear they want them to stay for at least one more season, I think they will. I think it is very disrespectful to group them with Alexander Isak. There is absolutely no reason to believe they would act the same as he did last summer.
You can never say any player at any club will not leave for sure, every club has a price at which they would sell any of their best players.
So I can’t say it is impossible for Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaares and Lewis Hall to leave this summer, but if they do leave, it will only be because Newcastle United have agreed to the transfer. That the club will be in a better position due to what that transfer fee will help NUFC to do with their incoming business.
As I say though, that is the same with any club, with every player, they all have a price they would be sold at.
That is very different though to what we are seeing in this Newcastle United transfer window.
Even if you do believe that transfer offers have been made as the media have reported, I haven’t seen anything that comes close to a price Newcastle United would then potentially sell at. It is all just a load of low ball figures, claimed offers, with a narrative that says these United players will be desperate to leave, Newcastle United will be powerless to stop them and forced to sell them on the cheap.
That is what we are getting told by the media and it just won’t happen.