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Newcastle's new manager, Matthias Jaissle, has now arrived in town and had a tour of his new home. He has also met the local press pack, shaking each of them by the hand at his first home press conference.
No sooner had he arrived, though, and he had to leave again, taking his team up to Edinburgh's Murrayfield stadium for a pre-season friendly against Everton. Defeat there only served to reinforce ideas that were already in the air about squad depth.
We expect that the squad itself will now be reinforced with a little over two weeks remaining in the summer transfer window. Fullbacks are the obvious priority, but there is also a list of midfielders who could bring some experience to what is currently a young midfield.
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Vamos... a thorough PotT round-up of Newcastle United's pre-season tour in Spain as Chris visits La Manga to get a first sight of the new first-choice goalkeeper, Lukas Hornicek, and a semi-proper sit-down with Matthias Jaissle, the man who has now officially replaced Eddie Howe.
We also look over the details of the match against Valencia at the Mestalla as Hornicek played 90 minutes, Anthony Elanga escaped serious injury, and Yoane Wissa gave a positive indication of his form going into the new season. Will their captain be Malick Thiaw? The german centre half pulled on the armband on his birthday.

Matthias Jaissle is the new broom at Newcastle United; following Eddie Howe will be a tough gig, but the German is no shrinking violet and has a shining recommendation from the top. CEO David Hopkinson fires the starting pistol on the project he's calling Newcastle 2.0.
Jaissle's new goalkeeper beat the manager into the building by a matter of hours; Lukas Hornicek arrives after Newcastle activated his release clause at Portuguese side SC Braga. Does that mean Nick Pope will be leaving? It certainly looks like captain Bruno Guimaraes will be joining Arsenal, is there a succession plan for him?
Newcastle's women have announced their fixtures for the new season and the pace of recruitment is relentless as they prepare for their latest tilt at promotion to WSL.

It's just shy of five years since Eddie Howe arrived at Newcastle with the team flailing at the foot of the Premier League. What followed is little short of miraculous and the man who drove it all will be remembered as one of the club's greatest managers.
But, with a punishing season just gone and another chaotic summer underway, he has decided to call it a day and all interested parties reluctantly accept it's time for a new start.
What next, then? Well, it looks like Matthias Jaissle is the man to follow the toughest of acts. But will he be able to call on Bruno Guimaraes?
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Newcastle's senior (and junior) men drew 1-1 at Gateshead in their first pre-season outing. Sean Steur impressed in his first appearance before fans but we're still very much at the shaking-off-cobwebs stage.
Eddie Howe did speak, briefly, to the assembled press and that was inevitably dominated by transfer talk, especially the clear-as-mud Bruno Guimaraes Arsenal transfer rumours.
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