
The transfer window is going from bad to worse for Newcastle United but there’s no time for inaction as the new Premier League season approaches fast.
Newcastle missing out on serious targets who’ve ended up elsewhere has become the Magpies meme of the summer but it stopped being funny when Liverpool signed Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike right under their beaks and star striker Alexander Isak followed up by declining to join his teammates on their pre-season tour.