IT will be an L of a start to the Premier League after our mid-winter break - Leicester and Leeds. However following rapidly on the heels of what we hope will not be a Christmas hangover is the opening of the January transfer window and, boy, does that get the juices flowing.
Most Newcastle fans with one eye on the World Cup finals are also looking elsewhere and speculating on what United will do next. The new regime have been fab when wielding the cheque book but with the transfer market always something of a lottery where you back your hunches can the run of success be continued?
Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes, Dan Burn, Nick Pope, Sven Botman. The Fab Five. Alexander Isak still to really arrive at sixty million notes of course. On we go. The proposed names are endless. Of course they are.