Hughton to bide his time in transfer market.
Posted on May 24th, 2010 | 115 Comments |
Players have been linked with moves in and out of Newcastle for some time now, and the amount of links each day is increasing. Most of these will of course be pure rubbish, but we wont know that until the transfer window slams shut at the start of September.
Hughton has insisted all along that there will be signings this summer, although it looks like it will be a case of evolution rather than revolution for the team over the close season. That admission comes despite the appearance of a rather unclear statement from the board which ended up confusing things further rather than clarifying them, something that we have a new PR person to help sort out in the future, possibly, hopefully, maybe.
Anyway, I digress. Hughton has spoken today and insisted there is no reason to rush into the transfer market as he looks to play it cool and keep his cards close to his chest.
“I’m not under pressure to make any decisions now,” Hughton told the Chronicle. “This is the start of the summer period, and there’s a fair amount of time before we go into the pre-season period.”
“I have to make a lot of decisions around that, but the most important thing is not to make those decisions too quickly. I’ve got to make decisions, but every club wants to be able to be in that position.”
Hughton has also said previously that either himself or his scouts will be at the World Cup checking on pre-identified targets. Could this finally be some semblance of a plan? Surely that sounds to sensible for Newcastle United? Aye, probably.
It does at least show that targets are being eyed up, international targets no less. Many people have latched onto the negative side of it straight away, which is admittedly easy to do. Some of those have taken the dreaded words from the statement literally without looking at just how much cash is coming into the club over the summer. Hopefully the reason that it’s going to take five years to break even is because some of that income is already earmarked to be used as a transfer budget.
That is something that we can digest come September, as it’s only then we will know what we will be equipped with going forward and if we actually did have any money to spend all along. We should also bear in mind that there has only been around five (yes five) confirmed deals within the entire Premier League as things stand, and they involve three clubs, so we are still no further behind the other sixteen teams.
They also have players linked with moves to and from them, and that will continue to happen to them and us until the window shuts. Personally, I am glad Hughton is taking his time and evaluating his signings. Too many times in the past we have just dived straight in there and signed a player on reputation alone, which has worked on occasion, but more often than not we are left bemoaning another failure in the transfer market.
At least this new approach give the scouts and Hughton more time to evaluate a target, and that has to be a positive, especially as we need to get more bang for our buck at the minute.
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Ah!
The tempered approach.