Trippier (€15 million), Chris Wood (€30 million), Guimarães (€42.1 million), Dan Byrne (€15m), plus Taggart on loan, is newcastle's operation after being acquired by a Saudi public investment fund that is said to be worth hundreds of billions of pounds. Although everyone thinks that Newcastle is rich, in fact, in detail, although Newcastle has unexpectedly reached the first place in the spending list in the winter transfer window, this team has not carried out "crazy reinforcements". The new Premier League team did not fall into the cliché of "people with more stupid money" as some people imagined, after all, the main goal of this team this season is to achieve relegation, and their reinforcements also show more pragmatic characteristics. Under new boss Eddie Howe, Newcastle has now soared to 14th in the Premier League table, 10 points above the relegation zone. It's easy to see how Newcastle has changed today, with Newcastle scoring 20 points in the 2022 Premier League after beating Southampton 2-1, the third of the five major leagues to score 20+ points after the New Year, ahead of liverpool and Barca's two traditional giants.
The most notable player in Newcastle's match against Southampton is undoubtedly Newcastle's Brazilian international Guimarães, who was brought in from Lyon. The 24-year-old Brazilian back looks like he has a fairly polished resume, he is one of the core players of the Brazilian Olympic team, at the age of 22 he was elected the best defender in the Brazilian League, he started six times at the Tokyo Olympic Games, helped Brazil win olympic gold medals, from Atlético Paraná to Lyon and from Lyon to Newcastle two transfers cost buyers a total of 62.1 million euros. However, this is only The first time Guimarães has started since joining Newcastle, having previously played only sporadically to adapt to the Premier League atmosphere. However, Guimarães quickly showed his extraordinary features, and in the 51st minute, Guimarães scored in a corner kick, and the brazilian's unique skill and spirituality were revealed.
When Saudi capital first entered Newcastle, public opinion has associated with the precedents of Chelsea and Manchester City that year, thinking that Newcastle will wave money in the transfer market and even infect some top stars. But in fact, Newcastle have chosen three powerful veterans with extensive Premier League experience: Trippier has become more sophisticated after experiencing the baptism of La Liga, and Chris Wood and Dan Byrne are on the central axis of the front and back respectively. The only exception may be Guimarães, but he is quite impressive in terms of both technical and physical conditions under his feet, and it seems unlikely that the investment of more than 40 million euros will fail.
Newcastle's official announcement of Eddie Howe as head coach also surprised some people, after the previously most optimistic Emery publicly rejected Newcastle, Eddie Howe is said to have impressed the Newcastle executives with his outstanding performance in the interview. Who is Eddie Howe? He is unknown in the player era, but led Bournemouth, who was on the verge of relegation in League Two, to enter the Premier League for the first time in the history of the team in 6 years and take root in the top league, his entry still reflects Newcastle's team building idea - the winter window has limited choice of famous coaches and players, rather than wasting time on some unrealistic goals or exaggerated figures, it is better to give priority to those who are familiar with the Premier League, experienced figures - rich and can be pragmatic and low-key, perhaps as soon as possible to achieve "rebirth". A closer look at Eddie Howe's resume and coaching characteristics reveals that Newcastle is by no means a random head-scratcher, especially after coaching Newcastle, Eddie Howe's move to transform Joelington into a midfielder was a great success, the former crappy striker is now very good at midfield, and with Willock, Shelvy and Guimarães, Newcastle is expected to have a great midfield combination of both body and technology. Don't forget that Diego Carlos and Leno, who were close to Newcastle in the winter window, can imagine that once they can join as scheduled, Newcastle's strength may be even greater.
According to Newcastle's current purchasing power and team vision, as long as they can stay in the Premier League according to the predetermined plan, it is not difficult to carry out a larger transformation this summer, in fact, Newcastle has ample operating space on three lines, and in the summer Newcastle can also expand the radar range of finding reinforcement targets - not only limited to the Premier League, players from la Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Portuguese Super League and other leagues can also be fully considered, to see the performance of Coutinho and Kulusevsky in the new owner, Although they were not very successful in the original club, they quickly won praise after coming to the Premier League. In the long run, Newcastle's goal may be to approach the level of being able to compete with Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and other top six as soon as possible through several years of operation, which is the ambition of the "local tycoon team".
(Santiago-Wang)