A good post.Or being over ambitious and overlooking the fact that players no longer see newcastle as an attractive club. Swansea are beating you to signatures these days.
Expectations need to be lowered but when there's talk in the local press of top 6 finishes, things will never change. It only helps but add unnecessary pressure to the situation.
You'd have been better off picking up 2-3 of the best young championship players. Spending decent whack on a centre half, central midfielder and striker if your budget allowed it. There's still lots of time but the more the media dwell on your inability to bring in players, the more difficult it will be to sign players that are value for money as the selling clubs will realise how desperate you are.
The same will happen to us if we leave things too late.
Spot on about the local press. Click driven content these days.