Newcastle United's priority this summer was to always bring in more firepower and it is easy to see why that is still the case in the final two-and-a-half weeks of the window following Saturday's goalless draw at Brighton.
Callum Wilson may have had a goal contentiously disallowed in the 14th minute for a high boot on the towering Lewis Dunk, but Newcastle only mustered a single shot on target at the Amex all afternoon. That was despite Newcastle getting in positions to at least make Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez work, but the visitors lacked the clinical edge to do so.
Take the first half, for example. In the early stages of the game, Allan Saint-Maximin did well to send in a scooped cross from the edge of the area while surrounded by four Brighton players, but the Frenchman's delivery was easily headed away by Dunk as Wilson lurked.
