Opinion

For Newcastle United fans, this has been an ‘interesting’ start to the season.

For some time we had been forced to accept that off the pitch matters were going to severely impact the early stages of this 2025/26 campaign.

Alexander Isak was determined to force his way out of St James’ Park.

Yoane Wissa was determined to force his way into Newcastle United.

The summer transfer window as a whole had been a relatively slow one, with also injuries for Eddie Howe to deal with, plus longer-term recoveries back to full fitness still in progress for others.

Ahead of this match on Saturday against Fulham, I am hearing plenty of people (journalists, pundits, Newcastle fans…) asking when Newcastle United are going to find their goalscoring form.

I want you to consider two sets of stats…

Opening six Newcastle United matches of this 2025/26 season;

Villa 0 Newcastle 0

Newcastle 2 Liverpool 3

Leeds 0 Newcastle 0

Newcastle 1 Wolves 0

Newcastle 1 Barcelona 2

Bournemouth 0 Newcastle 0

Played 6 Won 1 Drawn 3 Lost 2 Goals Scored 4 Goals Conceded 5

The most recent six Newcastle United matches of this 2025/26 season;

Newcastle 4...