Newcastle United announced on January 5 that they had bought Atletico Madrid right-back Kieran Trippier for £12 million, the first player transfer for Newcastle United after being acquired by a Saudi public fund and the first since Eddie Howe took over as manager.
Although there had been news of Kieran Trippier's transfer to Newcastle United before, the editor felt that he should not be the primary target, but he did not expect that he was the first to come.
Kieran Trippier is an English player who has been with Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, and he became famous during his time at Tottenham hotspur from 2015 to 2019, when Kieran Trippier played well on the right side of Tottenham Hotspur and became a strong right-back in the Premier League, and he played on the right side for England at the 2018 World Cup, when he also performed well.
But after the End of the World Cup, Kieran Trippier's performance gradually declined, mainly because he was too offensive and he did not want to defend, spurs coach Pochettino also criticized him at that time, and later Spurs preferred to use Serge Orier, who was also not well defended but was more willing to run back to defense, Kieran Trippier lost his position at Tottenham, and finally he chose to leave.
Kieran Trippier in 2019/20 unexpectedly joined Atletico Madrid in La Liga for £20 million, but he was quite surprised that he would cross the ocean to Spain, in the Premier League he wants to find a new owner is not difficult, maybe he thinks That Atletico is a competitive team in the Champions League, but Kieran Trippier stayed in the 19/20 season to the 21/22 season of this season, played a total of 83 games for Atletico in all competitions (65 in La Liga), the number of assists was 4, 6, 0, this season has not assisted, The first two seasons have not been many times, the reason for this comes from tactics, kieran Trippier often plays as a substitute when seeing Atletico, even if the play is not always the way to press forward, Atletico is the main defensive team, head coach Simeone has strict requirements for defense, Kieran Trippier came here to contribute to the defensive system, and Atletico have other right-back defenses better than him.
Kieran Trippier in the past two and a half years at Atletico can actually be said to be unexpected, although his cross when he came forward to attack is still lethal, but overall he is not the Tottenham Hotspur that Kieran Trippier, Atletico is not in good condition this year, is still in the 4th place, and it seems that there is no hope of catching up with Real Madrid, there is also a 9-point gap from the second place Sevilla, and now Atletico actually has to reorganize the defensive system, they have conceded 22 goals in the league so far, and in the top six are in the back of the class, They conceded 22 goals with Barca, which shows that the defense actually needs to be strengthened, in this case Kieran Trippier is no longer necessary for Atletico, Newcastle United are willing to pay 12 million pounds to buy him at this time, for Atletico they may have taken the cash and will buy another defensive player in the winter, so the transfer was completed in an instant.
Kieran Trippier is also related to the current Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe, who previously coached Burnley, and it was Eddie Howe who bought him at the time, it can be said that he is his mentor, Eddie Howe seems to know how to use him, and we can see from this that Newcastle United seems to give the manager a lot of power, so he will buy players that Eddie Howe is familiar with but has left the peak.
Newcastle United are now scoring too few goals and conceding too many goals, but from these games, Eddie Howe wants to play well, you can think of him looking for Kieran Trippier to form a series of crosses on the right, and Ryan Fraser can cross on the right winger, Kieran Trippier is 31 years old and is not as good as before, but he does have enough Premier League combat experience to get enough crosses and even assists in the process of playing against the middle and lower teams, which should be done for him now. And the 31-year-old will soon face the latter stages of his career, and he may be on the bench in the next one or two years, which means that buying him will not affect the big expansion of Newcastle United next summer, which is a good choice for Kieran Trippier for the winter turn, anyway, the purpose is only to relegate.
Now that the winter turnout has just begun, Newcastle United may continue to buy some of the players that Eddie Howe needs, and maybe there will still be big names joining the Magpies, like I said, in the second half of this year, Newcastle United will be a focus, and whether they can rush out of the relegation zone and how much they can rush ahead under Eddie Howe's leadership will be worth seeing.