Tickets for next month’s trip to Liverpool are now on sale to season ticket holders with 50 or more away loyalty points. Rafa Benítez takes his Magpies side to his former club on Saturday, 3rd March for a 5.30pm (UK time) kick-off, with the two teams having drawn 1-1 at St. James’ Park back in… Read More »
Newcastle United midfielder Jack Colback “wants to play” football in order to show how good he is, believes Nottingham Forest manager Aitor Karanka. The 28-year-old joined the Championship club on loan until the end of the season after being frozen out at St James’ Park. Rafa Benitez told Colback at the start of the season… Read More »
Rafa Benitez dismissed claims Mikel Merino is leaving & refused to discuss failure to land Sturridge, though says he is still ‘confident’… An unsurprisingly slightly subdued Rafa Benitez met the media on Tuesday lunchtime. There to supposedly discuss the Burnley match, it was always a foregone conclusion that the United boss was going to be… Read More »
Rafa Benitez is wondering what is the bigger challenge…. Having to take on (Sovereign state) Manchester City twice in the space of 24 days. Or convincing Mike Ashley to spend anything this transfer window on a Championship team that pre-season, he said he expected to be comfortably safe by January and then be able to… Read More »
Sky Sports’ North-East correspondent Keith Downie has confirmed that Benitez does hold interest in David Luiz, Daniel Sturridge and Danny Ings, but believes NONE of these deals are going to happen despite Rafa’s efforts. Downie puts this down us being unable to afford them at present, with him also suggesting that uncertainty over Benitez’s budget isn’t helping matters either.… Read More »