Without a doubt the most important week of Newcastle United's season will be the remainder of this one. Before the transfer window closes it's absolutely imperative we add a defender, another striker and a creative midfielder able to pick passes through the kind of deep-lying defences we're likely to come up against when playing teams at home. Make the right signings now and, with the already impressive additions of Gutierrez, Guthrie and Coloccini (a real snip at just one and a fifth Anton Ferdinands), we could easily finish in the top six or eight. Do nothing and a few key injuries could see a repeat of last season's shambles.
Ashley's talked a lot about his ambitions for the club in recent weeks but, as the weekend's attendance proved, talk alone doesn't fill a stadium. It's time to act. And fast.
2 comments:
sure James' departure 3 days before the end of the transfer window with no adequate replacement in sight is not exactly a step in the right direction...
Shades of Ferdinand and Woodgate, I fear. On the face of things, we got a good deal for both. The problem was we ended up with no-one to replace them (I refuse to count Andreas Andersson or Boumsong)
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