· 3 June 2025, 21:00
**Newcastle United have already been beaten to four players this summer, and the transfer window is only three days old.**
Liam Delap opted for Chelsea, Matheus Cunha, and now seemingly Bryan Mbeumo are heading to Manchester United, and Dean Huijsum is off to Real Madrid. All four players were heavily linked with moves to Newcastle, and at least three of them looked like very genuine, very realistic targets at one point or another.
It's hard to say that Newcastle lost out on any of those deals due to a lack of urgency, but that has often been a negative factor in Newcastle's transfer dealings under the PIF, with things slightly slowed by needing sign-off from the top of the tree in Riyadh.
We'll never understand why players would choose to go to the madhouse that is Chelsea over Newcastle, but it keeps happening. The Manchester United deals boiled down to nothing more than money, and a young Spanish player is almost always going to opt for Real Madrid if the offer is there.
Newcastle's transfers require sign-off from the PIF
Newcastle higher-ups are calm - they're obviously not paying attention
----------------------------------------------------------------------
When you look at things like that, except maybe the Chelsea thing - seriously, why would any serious player go there - it's easier to take, however, we are football fans, and we don't always take the time to think things through, so I, like many other Newcastle fans when they heard the news about Bryan Mbeumo started questioning just what the chuff is going on, and started to get a little angsty.
However, [The Telegraph are reporting](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/06/03/newcastle-transfer-summer-targets-eddie-howe-concerned/) that within the club, everybody is still calm and that the plan is to 'make the right decisions, not quick decisions' and that 'everyone is confident that this will be a successful window'.
I don't know about you, but that's just ticked me off even more. That line about making the right decision, not quick decisions, has made my blood boil. If you're reading this, I somehow managed to get my blood pressure under control and have staved off the Grim Reaper for just a little bit longer, but I guarantee that it was close!.
I may have a head like that of Alan Brazil after writing this bit
-----------------------------------------------------------------
When it comes to the transfer market, sometimes the right decision IS a quick decision. Real Madrid, Chelsea and Man United made quick decisions, and they've signed four top-quality players between them.
Meanwhile, that's four players Newcastle were looking at who are no longer available. If we'd made our move earlier, for these players whom we _knew_ we wanted and had been scouted many times, then maybe we'd have managed to sign one of them before the competition came along.
We get that they're trying to say that we don't want to sign players for the sake of signing players, but if we don't act fast, we're going to end up signing players from Shrewsbury because they'll be the only ones left.
PISS OFF, GRIM REAPER, I'M NOT READY YET!