Eddie Howe has warned Newcastle United are not necessarily looking at January being a 'massive help' like it was last season.
Newcastle signed Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes, Dan Burn, Matt Targett (loan) and Chris Wood last January, who all played their part in the Magpies staying in the Premier League. Newcastle's owners did not originally plan to be quite so active in the mid-season window, because it is a traditionally difficult month to do business in, but they felt compelled to act because of the club's perilous position in the table at the time.
Newcastle went on to sign Alexander Isak, Sven Botman, Nick Pope and Targett (permanently) in the summer - taking the club's spending to around £210m in 2022 - and sporting director Dan Ashworth said last month that it was not sustainable for the club to continue to splash out such amounts every year. Howe previously admitted, himself, that the black-and-whites had 'slightly exceeded where we wanted to be', when it came to Financial Fair Play, and the Newcastle boss was unsure at the time if that spend affected future windows.
