Clever selling or disaster as £170m profit made on Newcastle United stars? One of the big criticisms thrown at Newcastle United was that they had to become clever sellers. However, I was always bemused when any Newcastle United fans repeated it. It is just pure luck that the Longstaff brothers, Elliot Anderson and the Miley brothers were all local lads and huge Newcastle United fans. The net result of this is that I think a lot of Newcastle United fans then believed these players were better than they really were.