Victor-y dance: Munoz diverts to Liverpool

The summer had been going OK; Newcastle's first two transfers (one in, one out) had been conducted, seemingly with the minimum of fuss and in good time. It couldn't last. As the Premier League transfers are announced for next season, we get the inevitable opener against a side who has swooped late, once again, to clinch the signing of one of our transfer targets. If that was bad, a transfer of Sandro Tonali to the basket case that is Tottenham Hotspur would really stick in the craw. We think about why that link has emerged, consider life without the Italian, and review a more certain departure, that of influential recruitment figure Steve Nickson.