Newcastle United owners summer plans will turn this club into top four mainstays | OneFootball

It’s always good to have days in the sunshine and it is even better if you support a canny football team, the clocks go forward this weekend and hopefully we can all look forward to a nice summer.

I’m sure all the young Geordie lads and lasses will have an even better time on holiday in the likes of Magaluf and Ibiza this year, especially if they happen to bump into any scousers or mackems.

I thankfully got all of those foreign holiday frolics out of my system back in the 1980s.

The reason I’m looking forward to this summer more than any in recent memory, is because I believe the Newcastle United owners are going to make the necessary tweaks and changes that are going to catapult our club into becoming a top four Premier League mainstay.

I’d actually be amazed if we don’t qualify for next season’s Champions League. We have a very favourable run in, from now until the end of the season.

Qualification for the Champions League will increase our budget and act as a delicious carrot to attract top talent.

Although the likes of Alexander Isak will be going nowhere anyway, it will also help stop all the stupid gossip that repeatedly emanates from the usual suspects.

As I have already indicated (and after having finally won a trophy), now is the time for United to cement their place as a top EPL side.

This is what Richard Masters, the Septic Six, the mainstream media, the hypocritical tabloid scribes and the fans of other clubs, have been dreading for years.

The Premier League is our bread and butter and mark my words, Newcastle United are going to be challenging to win it in the next few seasons.

The Saudi PIF’s ‘Project 2030‘ for their flagship club Newcastle United is now all beginning to make sense.

United are getting stronger whilst some of the so-called “big clubs” are on the decline, or just plain and simply, stalling and stagnating. You all know who they are.

Our Sporting Director Paul Mitchell is going to be a busy man in the next few months. Not that he won’t have been getting all his ducks lined up since he was thrown in at the deep end in 2024.

I never got what Dan Ashworth was supposed to actually bring to the table at Newcastle United.

I wasn’t as enamoured as some by his appointment and was suspicious of him from the word go.

I think this was down to the fact that when he was at the FA, it was Ashworth that had rubber stamped the appointment of ‘Sham’ Allardyce as England manager.

Paul Mitchell has in my eyes got just as good (if not better) a CV as Ashworth.

I would like some of our fans, that have been left frustrated by the inactivity in the last three transfer windows, to cut Mitchell some slack.

We are in a far healthier position now from a PSR perspective and it is time to look forward.

I’m going to name a few of the players currently playing in this country that may become available and who I wouldn’t mind the Toon bringing in.

I’ll also mention a few I wouldn’t fancy and why.

Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo would be a wonderful capture. He has everything (goals, pace, awareness and experience) and would slot perfectly into Eddie Howe’s system.

I also like the the look of Southampton’s young winger Tyler Dibling. He’s got all the necessary tricks and attributes, also carries a bit of a physical presence.

United have been credited with an interest in both and there have also been stories about the likes of Antoine Semenyo and Justin Kluivert at Bournemouth.

Semenyo in my eyes is a non-starter because he prefers to operate down the left, where we are well covered.

We have also been linked with Ipswich Town centre forward Liam Delap. This young-un has done well and scored goals in the EPL in a struggling side. Whether he is ready for a step up at a club like Newcastle United is of course an entirely different argument.

I think Newcastle are destined to sign goalkeeper James Trafford from Burnley, a deal has probably already been struck.

Trafford is highly rated, a canny shot stopper, and a bit of a feisty character.

I hope we don’t go back in for Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi. He’s been bang average this season.

Although we didn’t know it at the time, Palace’s pedantic chairman Steve Parish did Paul Mitchell and Newcastle a massive favour last summer.

I also don’t want any Liverpool rejects like Joe Gomez etc.

Chris Rigg at Sunderland is a name that we have heard quite a lot of in the North East in the last couple of years.

Apparently a boy wonder and a Toon fan to boot, young Chris won’t end up at Gallowgate.

If some other clubs want to pay silly money for him then let them. Newcastle United already have teenager Lewis Miley for the same position and he is a far better player than Rigg.

I’m not an expert on players in the overseas Leagues but I think that is where we will do a lot of our business.

You definitely get more value on the continent, which brings me nicely back on to where I started.

As the Undertones would say; ‘Here Comes The Summer’, so let’s hopefully all sit back and enjoy.

I’m telling you all, 2025 is going to go down as the golden year, that finally sees in the renaissance of the famous Newcastle United.