I guess this was the biggest surprise for most of us knowing how rich Newcastle United potentially is. But I couldn't find a reasonable answer why they did not really become very active on the transfer market. Is there any specific reason to that or was is just consent among the club bosses?
I think it obviously didn't pay out so far and some big names on their team would have certainly helped. It is still the relatively unknown squad that everybody was surprised about last season, but some enforcements would have been so important. Now they have the perfect failure for the start of the season.
It's very easy to give full financial advise when you don't understand the the profit and loss of the system, because they have full bag of money doesn't mean they will spend it during the transfer market period, that could lead to financial mistake just the way Chelsea is suffering today. Haven't you see amount they have spent on last season and this season and yet, performance remain stagnant, no improvement but atleast I can say that Newcastle will improved with time, this was how they started late in the domestic league but as we progress, they later spit fire in all of their matches and it was worth the patient.
Furthermore, the mistake some of these teams make is that they have too much believe in consistency, they think because a season favoured them, it will continue in that manner, they don't believe that luck is an element in achieving those success. Instead of them to hire and buy new players, they will rather remain stock with the old player. Nevertheless, if in deed thy are oily rich, January is just 5 month and before Champions League should get intense, they should get new players by then.
Please read my post again to get the tone that I used. Or actually the whole wording. You are implying that I said Newcastle should have spent half a billion dollars on new players, but that is not what I was saying.
Newcastle has made three larger investments for Tonali, Barnes and Livramento and I think that is still not quite what many expected Newcastle to do But nothing is lost yet. I guess it is also not easy for them yet to get players to sign a contract with them when these players can choose between Real Madrid and them for example. That will take some time until they firmly established themselves at the top.