The opinions continue to flow into The Mag, as Newcastle United fans debate the various issues regarding our club..
Always plenty to talk about with NUFC.
Newcastle United fans with the latest collection of opinions below.
Contributions are sometimes too brief to make up into a full article.
Or sometimes a lot of varying views coming in on the same subject…
So we have gathered up a number of recent views sent in, (if you would like to send anything in, long or short, regarding Newcastle United, then contribute@themag.co.uk is the place):
Dear Mag,
Ross Wilson, Sporting Director at NUFC, needs to be held accountable for appointing a manager way out of his depth.
Wilson himself is clueless, as seen with the majority of summer signings he has sanctioned.
If big money signings are not ready for first team action, don’t sign them.
NUFC are not in a position to await the possibility of them becoming first team regulars in a year or two down the line.
Wasting money left, right and centre.
Chop Ross Wilson first.
Bernard Grey
Dear Mag,
I am guessing plenty of Newcastle United fans are embarrassed (well they should be!!!) now about the disrespect they showed to Eddie Howe in the second half of last season.
We had a brilliant elite manager and yet these idiots helped drive him away.
Eddie Howe faced a ridiculous impossible job last season after the Newcastle United owners totally wrecked his pre-season, especially when it came to the summer 2025 transfer window.
It was total dereliction of duty from the owners not to have a CEO or Sporting Director actively working at the club in summer 2025 to help get the deals for Eddie Howe’s top transfer targets done.
The Isak situation summed it up.
Instead of doing business with Liverpool, selling them the Rat and then they would have stepped aside to allow us to get Ekitike, we had the NUFC owners saying no way Isak would leave, only at the last minute to do exactly that! The damage already done as Eddie Howe had been waiting for his striker targets to get done. Only to have last minute Woltemade and Wissa signings which were NOT his top targets.
Indeed, I don’t think Big Nick was EVER on Eddie’s radar.
Just a case of having lost Isak and Wilson, Howe told it was Woltemade or nothing at the last minute.
Colin Evans
Dear Mag,
All the talk about Newcastle United and the way we are playing.
Who is to blame, the manager or the players?
The manager picks the line up and game plan for each game, the players try to keep to that game plan.
Clueless in the final third, clueless man marking, defensive errors resulting in loss points.
Who is to blame???
Have the players lost confidence in the style of game plan they have been given by the manager?
Should they question the manager and tell him his plan is not working?
We all know it’s not the Newcastle United of two or three years ago.
Good players were sold under the nose of Eddie Howe.
To me that meant enough was enough for Eddie, goodbye.
Lets go one step higher to the Head Honchos, are they to blame for the mess?
I would give that a BIG YES.
So start at the top and work down to sift the issue.
Dennis Tate
Dear Mag,
Being a lifelong fan of the toon I was really pleased when the club was taken over and Eddie Howe appointed manager.
It was great, we had some success, more than we ever had in years, seemed like we had a club that could progress, even with a few hiccups.
That was until the club decided to put profit before anything else.
The fans didn’t want Alexander Isak to leave.
The fans didn’t want Anthony Gordon to leave.
The fans didn’t want Sandro Tonali to leave along with other good players.
Most certainly, the majority of fans did not want Eddie Howe to leave.
But the club simply ignored the fans and their promises to complete the plan.
The fans don’t want the current inexperienced manager who is seemingly dragging us down to a certain relegation fight, the fans want a proven Prem manager but it looks likely we will be ignored again.
In today’s football the toon being relegated wouldn’t really be a financial hardship for the club, certainly not for the owners.
The only ones who will suffer will be the fans.
Not me not this time.
I am totally disillusioned and I’m simply not gonna bother and let myself suffer through false hope.
D Hepples
Dear Mag,
Matthias Jaissle is clearly trying to protect the young players. Young signings made by Ross Wilson.
We saw the ridiculous over the top abuse Fernandez-Pardo got from many fans when Jaissle was forced to start him in a run of games far too early, due to so many injuries.
MFP just needs time and confidence and will be a very good player given time and support.
No wonder Jaissle has been reluctant to start Steur (who is only EIGHTEEN!) on a regular basis, he got abuse from many fans when making that naive mistake at Leeds for their second killer goal.
So many of these fans who are saying Jaissle is clueless because he is not starting Steur, would be the first ones to be giving the 18-year-old abuse if the teenager struggled.
R Matthews
Dear Mag,
(ED: This was received after the defeat to Aston Villa)
It is with regret I write this as I am a Toon man since 1940 and always, yes always, supported the team and the manager when under pressure.
Yesterday’s game vs Aston Villa showed the team to be poor, moving towards being very poor, in its overall performance on the park.
When I look at the recent performances of Bruno, Gordon, Isak (yes Isak!!), less so Tonali, I see what Newcastle let go and why my team for the last 87 years are heading catastrophically for relegation.
The new ‘exciting’ players have with the greatest respect, shown a total inability to put the ball in the net, create chances to put the ball in the net and equally as important to stop the opponents putting the ball in Wor net.
Never mind it’s ‘early days’, ‘settling into Premiership style’ etc etc. nonsense.
At £50+ million they are paid to put the ball in the net on a regular basis.
The recent German centre forward (joke here) is a classic example of what extremely poor judgement was shown at the top.
Never mind, as long as silly people like myself buy season tickets, pay for expensive lunches, players will privately laugh all the way to the bank. No passionate liking for the area (ask how many fly to London or stay in London after a game).
They are the 21st century carpet baggers and a total disgrace to my team which I have supported wholeheartedly for over 85 years. The next three games are critical. Lose and down we go. A long way to Portsmouth and Bristol City.
John Nixon