Ross Wilson

I don't know.

You've got obviously the Sporting Director, Ross Wilson, who said they pulled off almost the entirety of their summer plan.

Well, if that's almost the entirety, then the summer plan is slipping and sliding at the minute by the look of it.

You've got a head of strategy, Jack Ross, who used to be the Sunderland manager.

Yeah.

Darren Lee says, any truth in the owners aren't happy with the new signings, not pulling their weight, hitting the ground running, putting Ross Wilson under pressure? Well, that question really is a good one because it accompanies the news that Thomas Amaral is the club's new head of first team recruitment.

He's obviously arrived with extensive experience across European football, having built a reputation for talent identification market.

intelligence strategic squad planning through roads in portugal spain and russia uh he was recently sporting director at spartak moscow so i guess the kind of rumor mill uh which we tend not to respond to on here but um you know the fact that there's actually been an appointment in that kind of department may suggest that um maybe not criticism of ross wilson stew but Maybe Ross needs a bit more support here.

And maybe Ross has asked for it.

And maybe this is the man who has been recruited.

Yeah, I think he's had a lot to say in the signing of Gonzalez as well, to be fair.

But you're right though, it's how the rumour mongers start and like Rafa Benitez, we like to deal in facts.

Neither of those are true when things happen like this.

But everybody should take the fair share of the blame and I include Ross Wilson and other people in that who did our summer transfer deals.

Everybody is in the stocks.

Now, it's up to them individually to get themselves out of the stocks.

I think you can ask the questions, as we are doing, of the recruitment.

And someone in the comments there, Ruben, has said that he thinks this is all on Ross Wilson, not enough experience.

But I think that's pretty much the experience line is something that everyone kind of put forward in the summer.

They were a little bit worried about that experience.

off though No, no, no.

I was just going to say, I agree with you.

It kind of shows you the slow transition, I guess, to building a really elite squad and, you know, we hope in time with Ross Wilson and Dave Hoppinson and, you know, that kind of turnover and players will get better.

But, Again, that's kind of the handle we're dealt with, I guess, and what the manager has at his disposal.

And I think the transfer business that he made with Nico Gonzalez coming in, who I don't believe for one second was a transfer target of ours before Jaisla walked through that door.

No chance were the nephew and Ross Wilson looking at someone like Nico Gonzalez to bring into Newcastle before Yaisla walks through the door.

Same with Dedic.

Why did it take Yaisla coming in to sign a right back? Trippier announced he was going in, what, March? Something like that.

Yeah, certainly so.

And more to come from him, hopefully.

I mean, just on Nico Gonzalez, Ross Wilson said at the time of signing that we've worked patiently on this transfer for a number of weeks.

This was the one we wanted and we were delighted to welcome Nico to Newcastle United.