But we have signed a player in the window in a deal with a value of more than £ 55 million and although many have said that we do not need another keeper, I think Aaron Ramsdale is a very smart acquisition. Hopefully the Greek and the Slovakse will both be moved in the coming days?
Moreover, it is not as if the window is still closed, although I, with Aston Villa in just nine days, I can understand why there is now a certain degree of despondency about Tyneside.
But how bad can it be, to be a fan of Newcastle United in the summer of 2025?
About a two -hour drive to the south is the city of Sheffield and if we thought we had a bad time, you might have to save a thought for the followers of Sheffield Wednesday FC.
Formed in 1867 as an offshoot of the Wednesday cricket club (self formed in 1820), they were known as the Wednesday football club until 1929. Wednesday is one of the oldest surviving football clubs in the world of every code and the second oldest professional football club in England. And they can cease to exist soon.
As recently as 1991 (which is recently when you are my age), Sheffo won, as I call them, the League Cup, a goal of John Sheridan is the difference between them and the man you in the final.
Until we have done ourselves of those 70 years of pain by winning the same competition last March, Wednesday was one of a small band of clubs outside the so -called ‘Big Six’ that had succeeded in taking the trend and lifting a trophy. Together with people like Oxford United, Coventry City, Portsmouth and even the Boro, I was incredibly jealous of that trophy branches, for the simple fact that we could not have managed it.
Although the time that has passed since 1991 is probably a lifetime for some, I still consider it a relatively short period. So what happens in South Yorkshire?
Wednesday has been owned by Thai Zakenman, Dejphon Chansiri for ten years now. Ze hadden daarvoor hun problemen (bijna in 2010 in de administratie gaan voordat Milan Mandaric de club overnam voor de prinselijke som van £ 1), en dus, terwijl de aankomst van Chansiri enkele initiële hoogtepunten aankondigde, woensdag ternauwernood mislukt naar de Premier League toen ze verloren in de 2016 Play-off Final To Hull City, die jaren ook een enorme overal in de winst hadden om de winst te beet op de winst, iets dat uiteindelijk zou komen in de Premier competition.
In July 2020, the club was deducted six points (it had been twelve before appeal) for the violation of PSR rules, the sale of Hillsborough and the legality did not set the reason for the infringement on time. Chansiri sold the land for £ 60 million to itself was certainly an indicator of the Parlous state of the financial matters on Wednesday and despite the rushed points, on Wednesday to League One over goal difference.
Although the club returned to the championship in 2024, things have become worse, culminating in chansiri in chansiri to not fully pay players and employees since March.
In June, the EFL placed a triple transfer embargo in the club for not paying the players. After this, further embargos followed after Chansiri was the tax assessment too late, and there are transfer costs to other clubs that remain out. Some players then had to be aware of stepping out of their contracts and leaving for a free transfer, as Josh Windass is as an example, while other promising young people are discharged in what represents something from a fire sale.
Recently, the North Stand, which has 9,000 supporters (many season-Ticket holders) and who has decorated the name of Chansiri about the seats in what seems to be a gross vanity, was closed by the city council because of the failure to perform critical works on the roof, the safety regulator that considers it unsafe.
As things stand out, Sheff Wed will fulfill their opening fixture in Leicester on Sunday, but otherwise the situation looks more than gloomy.
As far as Newcastle United is concerned, it is probably a case of ‘by the grace of God’ and such. For fourteen years we had an owner who seemed to be determined by us and when we are considering how bad this window has been, we should probably remember ourselves where we were four short years ago and where we are now.
I know that PSR is not our friend, it stops us and prevents us from competing with the so -called ‘Big Six’ on a level playing field and there must be an urgent solution in that respect. But the rapid solutions from Chansiri did not yield positive results on the field and Sheffield on Wednesday pay the price, and some.
It is fair to say that they are ruined and it is worth thinking about it, when we regret a system that is far from ideal and not only loaded against NUFC, but everyone outside the so -called ‘Big Six’.
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