Newcastle's top brass have sorted it at the back. Now let us have a bit of positive forward thinking before the sun sets over the transfer market. United dug out a hard earned point at Brighton and have now kept two clean sheets upon the opening of a new Premier League season.
Such defiance has been built on the back of shrewd transfer activity by new owners and their lieutenants. Seven players have so far been bought over two transfer windows and five of them have been defenders - Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Sven Botman, Dan Burn, and Matt Targett.
So the back door has been firmly slammed shut when it had been swinging on its hinges but at the other end United are as lightweight as a feather duster. There are two and a half weeks left for that to be addressed and my hope is that those who plot the road to salvation are not put off by the one transfer deal out of their seven that has not so far been an outstanding success.
