Newcastle, who will be playing in the UEFA Europa League in the new season, won their first pre-season warm-up match against non-league side Gateshead 3-2 on Sunday (16th), with a two-goal deficit. After the match, leader Eddie Husband expressed his dissatisfaction with the progress of the team's summer reinforcement, revealing that the financial fairness regulations have greatly restricted their buying plans.
Newcastle signed Italian midfielder Sindo Donnelly for 52 million pounds (about HK$530 million) earlier, but no progress has been made on the rest of the targets. Eddie Hussain said after the match against Gateshead, "I understand the difficulties of the team, and I'm happy to have Sindo Donnelly on board, but we need more players, and I'm well aware of where we need to improve, but the team is under severe restrictions from the financial fairness regulations. But the team is severely restricted by the financial fairness regulations, so we need to be more smart in buying, and we don't have a lot of money to spend on the army."
