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We asked for your overall assessment of Newcastle United's summer transfer window, with plenty of money spent on rejuvenating the squad following the exits of a number of senior star players.

Here are some of your replies:

David: Considering we lost our manager and three of our best players, I feel fairly optimistic about the season ahead. The signings we have made all look good, with Amar Dedic and Sean Steur particularly catching the eye. Cover at left-back is probably the only area we haven't addressed.

Marc: Our best business in a transfer window for a long time. I think our new head coach had a lot to do with it. The future is looking bright and it is only what we, as club, deserve after the horrible 2025-26 season. Well done to all involved with recruiting all eight of our new players.

Dazz: Newcastle's recruitment has been superb. I'm not at all worried about the loss of Kieran Trippier, Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes. My only concern is the lack of depth at left-back and centre-back, especially as Fabian Schar is very injury prone now. I hope we don't have a defensive injury crisis this season. But the rest of the team gives me nothing to worry about!

Jona: I'm absolutely thrilled with Ross Wilson and his team. We have added quality, young, hungry players for reasonable fees in today's market. Keeping Joe Willock and Jacob Murphy was key to providing depth, if we want to properly challenge on all three fronts. Matthias Jaissle is ultra-impressive and, while there will be bumps ahead, I feel very optimistic for the coming season.

Newcastle and Aston Villa will continue their pursuit of Bayer Leverkusen's Cameroon forward Christian Kofane, 20, when the transfer window reopens. (Football Insider, external)

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Premier League clubs have broke their all-time summer transfer record with spending reaching £3.49bn.

A total of £506.5m was spent on deadline day itself, up from £391m last year.

The total amount spent during the window considerably dwarfs the £1.13bn spent by clubs just five years ago and underlines the power top English clubs have to attract talent, according to figures provided to BBC Sport by Paul Macdonald, founder of FootballTransfers.com.

Three of the 10 most expensive signings in the history of football have happened this summer – with all of them being Premier League signings. In fact, this summer window featured four of the top flight's five most expensive ever deals.

So maybe it is not surprising then that of the 20 most expensive transfers completed, only six were not to clubs in the English top flight.

Indeed, newly-promoted Ipswich have spent more on new signings than the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan, Juventus and reigning European champions PSG.

Premier League clubs as a whole were willing to dip deep into their pockets this summer, as 11 of the 20 clubs broke their transfer records, six of them on more than one occasion.

Coventry, promoted to the Premier League alongside Ipswich and Hull, have done so four times over.

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As 23:00 BST ticked by on 1 September and the suspicion became reality, many Manchester United fans thought the same thing – what about a left-back?

Since the 2025-26 season ended, and United's summer transfer strategy started to be debated, it seemed obvious the club would move to address a perceived weakness in Michael Carrick's squad.

Luke Shaw is their only senior orthodox left-back. He started all 38 Premier League games last season, which given his previous injury record was phenomenal.

Firstly, it must be acknowledged Manchester United really like Lewis Hall.

Had they been able to do a deal with Newcastle for him, they would have done.

However, raided by Premier League rivals for their star men this summer, it became obvious in discussions around the highly-rated 22-year-old if Newcastle were to be persuaded to strike a deal, the transfer fee would be huge.

Manchester United's summer transfer budget was finite.

Faced with the reality of the situation, they opted to maintain their focus on the 'priority' midfield area and eventually committed £70m to bring in Carlos Baleba from Brighton.

Hall, it was concluded, is someone they are prepared to wait until next summer for.

United would have been prepared to take Balde on loan. Barcelona would only sell him. Salinas had a relatively low release clause, but Atletico Madrid were favourites to sign him. By the time they moved on to Argentina defender Nicolas Tagliafico, who they missed out on anyway, United had moved on themselves.

Their decision to belatedly act on an initial approach made by an agent around Ait-Nouri was an admission they are not totally certain of the path they have chosen.

Effectively that is Shaw as first-choice left-back, with Noussair Mazraoui as back-up, in a position he admittedly plays in for Morocco, supported by Diogo Dalot, who has switched flanks before, and Harry Amass.

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It was rather telling that Matias Fernandez-Pardo was Newcastle United's final signing of a rollercoaster summer.

It was a pursuit which was anything but straightforward. The Belgian had been a top target before the window opened, but it was only in the final stages that the club were able to complete a complex deal following delicate negotiations with Lille.

It was ultimately a tale of two very different forwards on deadline day.

On the same afternoon, Newcastle announced that towering club-record signing Nick Woltemade had finalised his loan move to Juventus, having only joined the club last summer.

This has been a window of change on Tyneside. A shake-up had been signposted as far back as the spring.

Captain Bruno Guimaraes was among a handful of key players to leave, while eight new signings arrived, as Newcastle's records for spending and sales in a single window were both smashed.

It was in early April when Newcastle announced defender Kieran Trippier would be leaving at the end of his contract.

The 34-year-old was approaching the twilight of his career, but his departure was still keenly felt as an influential figure behind the scenes.

Anthony Gordon and Sandro Tonali's subsequent exits to Barcelona and Tottenham respectively did not necessarily come as a surprise either, given they enabled Newcastle to comply and reinvest within the game's financial rules.

No-one internally had countenanced losing talisman Guimaraes to Arsenal, though.

After losing Alexander Isak to Liverpool against their wishes last summer, Newcastle ended up selling a fourth key player in less than a year.

They also missed out on top targets Victor Munoz and Johan Manzambi, who opted to move to Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively.

Yet those inside the club repeatedly stressed that the transfer window could only be judged once it had shut.

The final fortnight ultimately proved critical as defender Amar Dedic, midfielder Nico Gonzalez and forward Fernandez-Pardo all joined the club.

"Just because one element doesn't go the way you want, it doesn't mean you abandon the plan," a senior source said.

"We stayed on target, stayed focused, stayed calm and moved on. We didn't do a whole lot of mourning or crying when we had a setback.

"We pivoted to what's next."

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Newcastle commentator Matthew Raisbeck has praised the Magpies' recruitment team for a positive end to the transfer window despite an initially turbulent summer for the club.

"It's nice to not have the drama and the anxiety and disappointment of last year's summer transfer window," he told BBC Radio Newcastle. "It's been a relatively straightforward day for Newcastle and a rather positive end to the window as well which maybe at one point in the summer we wouldn't have seen coming."

He added: "This summer's window has turned around and I think with Ross Wilson there and the other staff around him working on transfers there's a clear shift in policy.

"There is certainly a plan in place, they've had to move to other targets in a couple of cases but as the club said they've been patient when it came to Nico Gonzalez and to Matias Fernandez-Pardo, and Newcastle United themselves after announcing the Fernandez-Pardo deal described this summer's window as transformative and I think that's probably a fair word to use to assess it with their outgoings and also the young players that have come in. They haven't signed a player older than 24."

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Former Newcastle defender John Anderson has picked out Sean Steur as the best signing of the window.

"I think that [Amar] Dedic has been great," he said. "But I think the one I'm really looking forward to seeing is Steur."

"I think at 18 years of age, coming from where he's come from, through that Ajax academy, he is what you would expect him to be."

"People will say, well, what do you mean by that? From an early age he's brought up with the ball, to be able to control the ball, to be able to pass the ball, to be able to see a pass and he most definitely can do that."

"He's comfortable on the ball, he wants the ball in all areas of the pitch, he goes looking for it, he plays beyond his years of 18 years of age and he can only get better."

Former Newcastle defender John Anderson believes the "recruitment has been good" after a summer of change at St James' Park.

The Magpies lost key men in Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon, while manager Eddie Howe also departed, and signed a host of younger-profile players.

Anderson told BBC Radio Newcastle: "The £100m for Tonali was too good a deal to turn down. I liked Tonali when he was here, I thought he was a good player, but £100m [is] just too much for me.

"It was good business to bring in [Nico] Gonzalez in for half of that and you saw the way that he performed at the weekend.

"You can see the line the club are taking. It's mainly young players who they can improve. Some of them haven't been cheap - £50m is still a lot of money.

"There's going to be rocky situations but it's how you handle that. Up until now, nobody can complain and nobody can say we haven't been good value for it either. We deserved to win the game at Spurs and deserved to beat Liverpool - but we didn't and got a point out of it."

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Anderson also had his say on young striker Sean Neave's potential loan move to Championship side Wolves, questioning whether it would be the best choice.

"I raised an eyebrow when I saw Wolves. I looked at what they had and will he get much game time there? Is he going to go there and go straight into their starting XI? The way that they have started, you wouldn't think so.

"Going to a Championship club who will be looking to get back into the Premier League at the first time of asking, we'll see.

"I would say that he had other options if he wanted to go down that route and could go elsewhere. If that's where he wants to go, good luck to him. Will he get an awful lot of game time? We'll wait and see."

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Newcastle United have done the following business on transfer deadline day:

• Lille forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo has signed in a deal worth £51.4m plus add-ons. The 21-year-old Belgium international is Newcastle's eighth summer signing.

• Striker Nick Woltemade has joined Serie A side Juventus on loan for the remainder of the 2026-27 season.

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Newcastle striker Nick Woltemade has joined Serie A side Juventus on a season-long loan.

The German international, who joined the Magpies last summer, has featured 53 times in all competitions, scoring 11 goals.

Woltemade was a second-half substitute in Saturday's 2-0 win at Tottenham.

Former Magppies defender John Anderson told BBC Radio Newcastle: "We felt like he might be better off going to another European league where the pace of the game isn't as quick, isn't as physical, may well suit him more.

"When Fernandez-Pardo came in it just opened the door for Woltemade to get away to play regular first-team football. I don't think it was ever going to be the case here.

"Osula has moved ahead of him and Wissa has had an outstanding start to the season - and you would think Fernandez-Pardo is going to jump ahead of him as well. So I think it benefits both sides."

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Matias Fernandez-Pardo says it "made complete sense" to join Newcastle after speaking with head coach Matthias Jaissle.

The 21-year-old Belgium international has signed from Lille on a long-term contract for an initial £51.4m.

"I'm really, really happy to be here and very proud to be at such a big club," Fernandez-Pardo said. "I spoke to the head coach and he really showed how much he wanted me to be here.

"In terms of my own career progression, it made complete sense to come so I didn't hesitate at all.

"I know the club, I know about the stadium, I know it's a fantastic atmosphere. I've followed the team. What I've seen is a team that's very ambitious, wants to attack, get forward, really chase teams and go after them, and that's really something I want to take part in as well.

"I'm still young, I'm still hungry, and that's why I'm here, and I want to make that progress with Newcastle. I can't wait to start the wonderful adventure here."

Jaissle added: "I am very happy to welcome Matias to our club. We were all delighted when we knew we could complete this deal.

"Matias is a highly technical player with explosiveness in his game. He can score and assist, he has courage, and he has the ability to take players on. We're sure our supporters will enjoy watching him play.

"He has already shown in Lille that he can perform on the big stage, and we will work closely with him to keep developing his game further. We are excited to see him in a Newcastle United shirt."

Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock believes Eddie Howe's departure from Newcastle United this summer acted as a catalyst for a transitional period at St James' Park.

Since the end of the 2025-26 season, the Magpies have also lost the services of Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, Sandro Tonali to Tottenham and Bruno Guimaraes to Arsenal.

"Newcastle were the ones who chose to get rid of their manager this summer, in my opinion," Warnock said on BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club. "They pushed Eddie Howe and gave him a decision to make.

"If you don't back your manager, they will be sitting there thinking: 'Well, hang about, I need money to strengthen here and you are tying my hands around my back.'

"The club didn't need to do that, they left him with a decision to make about his future at the club.

"Do people really think they didn't want to lose Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes? Because I think they absolutely would've taken £100m. These haven't been forced decisions."

The Observer's Rory Smith replied: "What Newcastle have done, amid all of the change, has been really impressive, but it is reactive to a situation they maybe wouldn't have chosen to be in at the start of summer.

"But I disagree that they wanted to sell Tonali or Guimaraes. If they could have kept those two players, they would have."

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BBC Radio Newcastle will be bringing you a special show on later on Tuesday examining the transfer business done by Newcastle United and Sunderland.

Presented by Harry Roy - with former Magpies defender John Anderson, ex-Black Cats forward Martin Smith, Newcastle commentator Matthew Raisbeck, Sunderland commentator Nick Barnes and transfers expert Paul Montgomery the guests in the studio - the programme will run from 22:00 to 00:00 BST, taking in the 23:00 transfer deadline.

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We asked for your views on the potential signing of Matias Fernandez-Pardo, which could lead to Nick Woltemade joining Juventus on loan.

Here are some of your comments:

Chris: Would feel conflicted if Big Nick goes. Desperate for him to succeed but all the evidence seems to be pointing to the fact that, unfortunately, he just doesn't suit our style of play - probably even less so under Matthias Jaissle than under Eddie Howe. He seems to be more of a moments type of player rather than one who's going to dictate a game consistently. We aren't a team that can carry that type of player. Wish him the best wherever he goes and will look out for his name.

Tony: Don't know much about Fernandez-Pardo so have to trust the judgement of the guys in the know at Newcastle, but Woltemade does not, and I don't see how he ever will, reach the standard for the Premier League. While I hoped for a lot from Nick, it's time for him to move on. Fingers crossed we can get the Fernandez-Pardo deal across the line this time.

Richard: Woltemade needs to play and play often, so a loan move would be good for him. I still think he has a future at Newcastle.

Alan: He didn't truly click while Howe was in charge. Now, under Jaissle, I feel his lack of speed is problem. We have height in Big Joe, Dan Burn, Malick Thiaw and Sven Botman, and we have other players who can distribute the ball in transitions. So he does seem to be surplus to requirements. I am sad to see him go as I don't think we have seen him at his brilliant best. But I think a loan move could do him the world of good. Come back stronger, big man!

John: Unfortunately, Woltemade will struggle to fit into the system we intend to play. Rather than sell him now for a big loss, send him on loan and hope he regains his form - then sell for a reasonable amount.

Former Newcastle defender John Anderson has a new favourite Magpies player in Amar Dedic following the full-back's impressive start on Tyneside.

After Newcastle beat Tottenham 2-0, Anderson praised a number of the individual performances from Mathias Jaissle's side.

"I'm always cautious," he told BBC Radio Newcastle. "It's only two games in, but there's more encouraging signs than there is negativity, that's for sure."

"Nico Gonzalez came in and had an excellent debut. Anthony Elanga looks like a new player compared with last season, when he came in for a lot of criticism. Yoane Wissa the same. They're like two new signings as well because of the way that they've played in the opening games. Lewis Miley came into midfield and just strolled - he and Gonzalez bossed it in there.

"Defensively, we were worried. I was worried about Sven Botman coming into the season because his form in pre-season had been really poor. But, he and Malick Thiaw are building up a good relationship.

"I'm getting a poster of Dedic put on my wall. His energy and fitness levels are unbelievable. He just gets up and down and he doesn't look like he's breathing. Lewis Hall's second half was brilliant defensively.

"When Lukas Hornicek was called upon in the first half he made good saves - he did what he had to do.

"It's only three games in but you've won two and drawn one. It builds belief and confidence."

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Newcastle and Juventus have reached a verbal agreement over a loan move, with no buy option, for forward Nick Woltemade. (Florian Plettenberg), external

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