Newcastle United Season Review
With the 2024/25 Premier League season already in the rearview mirror and Newcastle looking forward to their return to the UEFA Champions League next year, this is the perfect time for our staff to hand out some awards for the campaign that was.
Throughout the next few days, our staff will be sharing our picks for various season-long awards, including our best players, most disappointing performers, best signings, and others.
Feel free to disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to call us out on our BS if you hate our takes and to tell us why we are wrong in the comments section below!
**2024-25 NUFC Biggest Dissapointment**
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**Adam Goffin** — _Paul Mitchell (Sporting Director)_
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While clearly hamstrung by PSR rules, the only signings Mitchell made while at Newcastle since July 2024 were youth prospects Will Osula, Baran Yildiz and Vakhtang Salia. The ongoing Mark Guehi saga is really our only major signing prospect linked in the last two transfer windows, and that was walked away from after we finally balked at the 70m transfer fee being touted by Crystal Palace. A fallout with Eddie Howe behind the scenes has become evident, most notably when Mitchell publicly criticized the Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak, Tino Livramento, and Lewis Hall signings as “unsustainable”. This has led to his separation from the Toon in just under a year, a highly disappointing outcome from what on paper looked like an astute move from the club.
**Antonio Losada** — _Kieran Trippier_
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I guess we’re past the Captain Tripps era. Kieran Trippier struggled last season after two strong campaigns at Newcastle and after becoming the initial savior of the club, coinciding with the PIF takeover in late 2021. Despite notching 17 assists and scoring a couple of goals across 2022/23 and 2023/24, the veteran only got three assists in his last season with the Magpies while still appearing 25 games. The devil is in the details, however, and only 14 of those 25 games were starts for a man who is starting to show aging symptoms and is most likely heading into a perennial reserve role rather than anything else. All of that said, this negative came with the positive of Tino Livramento’s blossoming into a bona fide starter, so I can’t complain.