Newcastle United official statement of intent for Summer 2025 transfer window | OneFootball

The 2025 Summer transfer window is fast approaching for Newcastle United.

After the last three transfer windows having brought in no new first eleven contenders, fans hoping for better in this next one.

With the very essential spending on new players in the early transfer windows following Mike Ashley’s departure, the PSR situation meaning Newcastle United very constrained when it came to any serious transfer activity since Summer 2023.

Indeed, frantic activity at the end of June 2024 was needed before the end of the 2023/24 financial year. With both Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh needing to be sold by 30 June 2024, to keep Newcastle United within three year PSR limits.

Indeed, earlier today (Tuesday 4 March 2025), the release of the latest club accounts for the 2023/24 season, saw Newcastle United reveal a profit of £70m when it came to player sales, the club referencing the sales of Anderson, Minteh and Allan Saint-Maximin as having been key to generating that player sale £70m profit.

Newcastle United CEO Darren Eales has been talking after the release of those latest club accounts, which saw turnover (which doesn’t include player trading) increase from £250m in the 2022/23 season, to £320m last (2023/24) season.

Giving an official Newcastle United statement of intent for the 2025 Summer transfer window, Eales says that on the back of the strong financial figures AND these last three windows of going through PSR pain, Newcastle United are now set to seriously invest in the playing squad again.

The Newcastle United CEO asked whether the club would bow be in the kind of financial position to be able to offer Alexander Isak a new longer enhanced contract, that he would be willing to sign Eales insistent that a key part of moving forward ambitiously, will mean United keeping all of their best/key players as well as adding more of them:

“We are going to be clear, Alexander Isak has multi [three] years left [on his current contract up to end of June 2028].

“[So] We will have discussions in terms of a new deal, just like we did with Joelinton, Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon.

“That [the new enhanced and extended Alexander Isak contract] is something that we will approach in the summer.

“The reality is that all of our players are under long-term deals.

“They are committed to the club.

“So, from that perspective, we are not looking to move any player on.

“We have no intention at all of those players being moved on.

“We are in a position now, where because we were able to move a couple of players in January that weren’t really impacting on minutes on the pitch, we have got that wish and desire to keep our key players.

“They are all under long-term contracts.

“We are not under the gun or anything like that.

“We have got an ownership that is ambitious and wants the best for the club.

“So, from that perspective, it would be crazy for us to consider selling our star players.

“‘The reality is that we have got a great coach.

“We have amazing players in our squad.

“We are growing our revenues and we have an ownership that is fully committed to the long-term, so the future is bright.

“The way we approach from ownership down  is that we [try to] maximise our revenues and spend to the max that we are allowed to.

“So we incur those losses of £105m over three years, to give Eddie Howe and the team the best possible players on the pitch that he wants.

“It is frustrating, because we want to go A to B in three years, but we can’t do what was done in the past.

“You can front-load the spend but you have to pay the piper.

“There is frustration with that PSR constraint.

“If it wasn’t for that, we could spend more on the team and accelerate our progress on the pitch.

“So the good news is that it gets a little bit easier once you have a good season, like we had in these accounts, to invest in the future, but the amount will depend on a lot of factors.