Yet, I’m much more excited about this upcoming season than seemingly everyone else. Firstly, I’m delighted to see Newcastle doing what they should have been doing all along, identifying young, exciting players with potential and bringing them in with development and future profit in mind. It was a method that worked perfectly with Alexander Isak, Sandro Tonali and now Bruno Guimaraes and should never have been abandoned. All we can do is hope they come good, but there’s little evidence to suggest that’s coming this season. This is how we should have been doing business all along, and I’m pleased to see it make a return.