{"id":322426,"date":"2025-08-06T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:58:16","slug":"transfer-news-benjamin-sesko-reportedly-wants-man-utd-move-with-talks-closing-in-plus-darwin-nunez-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322426\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Benjamin Sesko reportedly ‘wants’ Man Utd move with talks ‘closing in’, plus Darwin Nunez latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Newcastle scout criticises their transfer market approachpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

10:29 BST<\/p>\n

\"EddieImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Newcastle United’s former club scout Paul Montgomery has criticised what he perceives as a lack of urgency and assertiveness in the transfer market this summer.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Newcastle, Montgomery queried the club’s ability to sell the project to their top targets in the way that other ambitious sides seem able to do.<\/p>\n

“I would question Newcastle’s lack of aggression in the transfer market,” he said. “In the modern day, you have to be aggressive when you want to sign a player. When you identify a player and he’s your man, then you have to get to him, get to his face, sit with him and tell him he’s the best thing since sliced bread.<\/p>\n

“Or alternatively, get him on a private jet, get him to that stadium and show him the videos of the fans when Newcastle won the cup to show the passion of the club. That’s what sells the club, and to do that, you have to be aggressive. And sadly, I just don’t see that with Newcastle at the moment.<\/p>\n

“They messed up signing young James Trafford for over a year when they could have easily finalised something. And now you have a situation whereby Newcastle could lose arguably one of the best strikers in Europe, if not the world.<\/p>\n

“That is really disheartening for the fans who believed that they were going to go places.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Newcastle scout criticises their transfer market approachpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 10:29 BST Image source, Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981706589067111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}