Geordie Journos: Where is Lloyd Kelly, transfer priorities and getting set for Tokyo
The Geordie Journos discuss what being 'Eddie Howe fit' means as Jordan and Dominic prepare to follow Newcastle United to Tokyo.
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00:00it's getting a bit tense isn't it he was flexing his he was flexing his pecs when
00:04he came to see you and it does take time for some players to get up get eddie how fit is you like
00:17hey it's your geordie journals we're here in a slightly unusual setting a hotel room
00:23at manchester these two guys either side of me are going to be going to japan of which on next
00:30week's edition on shots tv you'll be able to see little snippets of nikasi united and jordan
00:35cronin and dominic skirt in japan that'll be amazing but before that we've literally just
00:42came away from uh a win a friendly win against whole city with a strange depleted side and we'll
00:49come on a little bit of that in the moment in a moment but let's first talk about probably the
00:54major news line from the whole thing we've talked about before on shots tv calum wilson what's going
01:00on another injury for calum wilson this time confirmed that he's going to miss the start of
01:06the season which yeah further underlines the frustrations with calum wilson and that injury
01:12record feels like it's been injury after injury particularly this year where calum wilson obviously
01:18had that pectoral injury at the start he then came back got a hamstring injury and now he's got
01:23a problem with his back which required an operation so yeah spoke previously on the last show about
01:31needing a replacement i think that's probably needing a replacement times two now with uh with
01:36calum was missing the start of the season yeah i was sick of talking about calum wilson and injuries
01:41i'll move i mean either our last video on youtube our last shots tv video videos throughout last
01:47season calum wilson injuries always a sticking point and yeah it risked derailing last season
01:53in many ways and you could argue to some extent it it did with his injuries and then alexander
01:58couldn't quite carry the mantle as most players playing premier league football
02:04can't be expected to start 90 minutes and play at a top level elite level week after week after
02:10week 90 minutes 90 minutes 90 minutes and it ultimately puts that pressure on alexander
02:15newcastle just couldn't manage and and that's the problem eddie how and newcastle in the transfer
02:21market have to address because calum wilson at 32 or historically has been injury prone the injuries
02:27are not going to vanish overnight as much as we want them to as good a player as calum wilson is
02:33it needs to be addressed and hopefully it will be but wasn't last summer so yeah wait and see
02:39i absolutely love him like i've always thought he's probably one of my most like so there'll
02:44be lots of people out there i think the same one of the favorite players over the last sort of
02:48modern year any casting loads of goals and quality performances but sadly just getting
02:53them out on the pitch that's always been the problem and you mentioned that there don
02:58alexander isaac can only carry the burden for so long he can't be forced to have to play 80 to 90
03:04minutes every single game it had a big impact last season i've got no doubt alexander isaac
03:11will be pushing 30 goals last season if he'd been able to manage his minutes in his time
03:16he's such as his quality um but he was nowhere nowhere near because of those injuries he picked
03:21up injuries himself and i think that was through you know management of his own time on the pitch
03:27they need another striker you can't say they haven't had a third striker since they got rid
03:31of chris wood um and as much as i'm not a fan of chris wood not in the forest chris would
03:37score a heartbreaker st james's park of course the last time he was there
03:41probably equal the amount of goals he scored when he cast it not far off in 18 months in that one
03:45game um but it's just having that extra body calling upon youngsters and such as ben parkins
03:52and others eddie howe didn't want to go there and i see why he didn't want to go there they
03:55need an experienced reliable player to come in and look that could be the thing that could be
04:02something that now happens because of the injury we know he's going to miss the start of the season
04:08he could even miss into the end of the transfer window which me which which brings up two issues
04:15really the fact that they probably were looking if in fact if a buyer had come up this summer
04:21they probably would have accepted a bid for calum wilson knowing his situation he's going to got a
04:25year left on his contract his injury situation etc um probably means that's going to be difficult
04:32now so they're going to have two strikers even though one of them isn't going to be fit at the
04:36start of the season might mean they just go into that market again and get a third striker the
04:40third striker that they haven't had for best part of two years now isn't it 18 months that they
04:45haven't had that third option i think that'll be one one that i hope they really do but
04:51it doesn't sound like things are close no not at all eddie howe said conversations are taking
04:57place daily with people at the club the likes of paul mitchell and things like that and transfers
05:03he wants transfers to happen but as said nothing's close and since that first of july where they
05:10signed four players none of them really blowing any minds or threatening the start and 11 too
05:17much in terms of actually lewis hall was already here yeah uh two goalkeepers who are very much
05:24backups probably third and fourth choice goalkeepers and then lloyd kelly who i haven't
05:30seen so far so yeah it hasn't exactly been probably been one of the certainly the worst summer
05:37transfer window in terms of the first two months of it that we've had since the takeover and
05:43something needs to change i think eddie howe is very clear that newcastle needs signings but
05:49where they will come from and when they will come is not forthcoming at the moment
05:55it's getting a bit tense isn't it no that sounds really silly to say but
05:59we're sitting here now we're only three weeks away from the start of the season and it's quite
06:03clear that newcastle need new signings or indeed need to get players back from injury or up to
06:10fitness very very quickly because the whole city friendly they fielded the strongest possible senior
06:1611 that they could but that included a left back in jamal lewis who probably won't be here yeah
06:23um and then of course in the in the second half after 16 minutes there was a team that started
06:28you know under 21 started to come on as well so jamie miley that first half yeah of course yeah
06:32lewis hall in midfield that midfield will never play a premier league game that back four will
06:36never play a premier league game realistically in terms of that was the strongest team that
06:41could muster three weeks out from the start of the season that is a concern there's obviously
06:45caveats to that we haven't we haven't got the likes of the internationalists that's why japan's
06:51so important yeah it is massive and of course that there's likes of bruno gimaraish is going
06:57to be joining the team out there um a couple of players that aren't going to be joining the team
07:02which we've learned is anthony gordon and kieran trip yeah both of them of course were a massive
07:07part well one of them was a massive part none of that was a bit part player in could have been a
07:12he shouldn't should have been we know that we you know that we know that should have been
07:17um anthony gordon kieran trip yeah both massive parts well one was a massive part of rewind
07:27of england getting to euro final of course as we've just witnessed this summer
07:32um they've been given that little bit of extra time i think it's really good that kieran trip
07:37gets that time he's been suffering an injury for quite some time um and you know there's no it's
07:44not definite that he'll come back and play a major part at newcastle united squad because we know
07:48there's question marks about his future at newcastle united as well but especially as well
07:52for anthony gordon anthony gordon has barely had a rest you would say for the last two years
07:58considering he was player of the tournament as england under 21s was it it was under 21s won
08:03the euros last summer um played center forward of course um and was amazing in that tournament
08:10so it's nice to see them get a little bit of a break and i like that sort of uh approach where
08:15it's a horses for courses rather than just saying everybody back on this date because
08:20i think you need to treat players like human beings at times and i think the fifa schedules
08:24uefa schedules whatever they may be are very unforgiving um with regards domestic and
08:30international football players have been overworked yes i hear you i hear everybody out
08:36there but they earn x y and z yes but if you want the best you've got to treat them like the best
08:42and if you if you're going to flog them then you're not going to get the best and that's essentially
08:47the way football is going at the moment so i do think it's a good thing that they get a little
08:50bit of a break but one player we didn't see anything of which i think will be a concern
08:55i think a lot of people out there will be wondering what is going on with lloyd kelly
09:00yeah because he's been in the building in terms of newcastle for best part of four weeks now
09:09and he's trained a bit i mean you guys went over to germany and did he spoke to train yeah we
09:14spoke we spoke yeah he never mentioned anything about injuries or any issues or um we've seen
09:21him train him he was he was training with me with the squad wasn't i was trying to set you
09:28wasn't because yeah of course him uh team liveramento and there was a few
09:37joe like calum wilson of course went to the squad but what we've learned from uh conversations
09:43recently is that and eddie howe as well he was definitely training he was he was flexing his
09:49he was flexing his pecs when he came to see me did we not tell you about that he was uh yeah he
09:54was giving it the full buff he does right he does he's been working on his chest
10:03no i was just saying because i asked eddie howe after the whole game about lloyd kelly
10:07oh i thought you said he'd been training no no no and eddie howe said lloyd kelly he's not there's
10:14no injury there it's getting up to speed that's the important thing he he suggested there's
10:19differences and it's adapting to the demands of newcastle united there's sort of a phrase
10:25getting knocked about is eddie howe fit which anthony gordon wasn't when he first signed
10:30lewis hall definitely wasn't when he first signed and it does take time for some players to get up
10:36get eddie howe fit as you like it and then we just need that's like kelly fit though he's almost in
10:42his career he's been a player that this has plagued him yeah and that's the concern that a lot
10:47of people out there be thinking is like it's it's just history repeating himself and newcastle signed
10:52another crock we hope not yeah i understand the eddie howe fit argument in premier league games
10:58i would raise questions whether 17 year olds who are coming off the bench who've never played a
11:03minute of first team football are also eddie howe fit and why lloyd kelly couldn't be giving a run
11:09out so there's questions to be answered there but hopefully it will see a bit more of him
11:15certainly at least before the season starts or any of him because i'm sure everyone will be eager
11:20because he's newcastle's marquee signing so far which is stop it which is it's which is a shame
11:25it's painful and i'm sure in the second half of this geordie journals on shorts tv where we'll
11:32talk a little bit more about that about the idea of what the transfer window has been so far and
11:39what we expect to come or want or want and need yes in the coming weeks because there's only
11:47what is it now three weeks three weeks i can't really check your watch for the
11:52for the date yes that's the one we'll see after the break
11:55now we're back part two of your geordie journals on shots tv right of course these two guys
12:11alongside me are the lucky people to be going across to see eddie howe his players in japan
12:17tell us a little bit about what you guys are going to be doing over there and what to expect
12:22for everybody else out there well it's hard to know what i expect in some ways because
12:26neither me or jordan have been to japan tokyo far east a long flight um but really looking
12:33forward to it we're staying in the heart of tokyo near where newcastle will be based
12:39and yeah they'll be playing you all our red diamonds who are exotic it's exotic name that
12:47i hope i've got a pronunciation you probably haven't but no it's fine yeah japanese isn't
12:53one of the languages i know they don't teach that at national world we don't care we don't get
12:58japanese part of the curriculum it's not in the national world no um but yeah they are former
13:04afc champions league winners um but mid table as jordan pointed out yeah is that like the
13:09johnson's paint no no no that's that's major yeah i talked to you the disrespect of the
13:15yugohoma marinus who uh harry kuhl formerly managed recently sacked
13:22um again or was he really yeah yeah oh
13:28we said in one of our last videos on youtube are managed by harry kuhl
13:32yeah failed football league manager i don't know where that crawly town was it really
13:37notts county um a couple others as well yeah um now failed yukohoma
13:43marinus manager what a shame i know leeds legend liverpool not really but he did australian
13:53but yeah um they also reached i say also they reached the afc champions league final um manager
14:00were beaten i think in the process they've recently sacked harry kuhl they may have
14:07appointed someone i looked at both playing squads as well and no disrespect the players
14:11that play these teams but there wasn't any names i recognize from the j league isn't um
14:18isn't exactly one of those it's carrie linick i still play
14:21but no it's not like the chinese super league or even the saudi pro league where you you get
14:30a few names there might be a few but you probably haven't heard of most of them but yeah we'll be
14:36also seeing a training session as well open training session speaking eddie how hopefully
14:42get a couple transfer updates but they've been been scarce so far this summer but what
14:48is exciting as well you go into the saitama stadium and the tokyo national stadium so
14:55world cup stadiums and the saitama stadium world cup semi-final stadium in 2002 the tokyo stadium
15:03was built for the olympics so that's like the olympic stadium so two quite iconic stadiums
15:12plenty to come over on shields gazette and newcastle world over the next week yeah i was
15:16going to say to check out the two websites for all of the work that these guys will be putting
15:20in and of course this time next week you will be able to see little snippets of everything that's
15:26going on in japan exciting exciting for you guys are you excited i am excited because i've never
15:32been to japan before as don mentioned at the start and we're going to see some pretty good
15:37stadiums because i'm a bit of a stadium hey freak oh yeah yeah i like i like your favorite stadium
15:44oh come on saint james's park yes it's got to be but yeah it should be a good trip obviously
15:53there's a lot of commercial value for newcastle as well going to a that's an area they don't tend
15:57to really go to so you know they'll be able to build relationships over there hopefully find a
16:03new following over there and you know make them make a name for themselves so yeah pretty looking
16:08looking forward to hopefully capturing that for the respective said they wouldn't train much over
16:14there he said the focus would be on the two games and stepping up and we'll get the international
16:18players bar the two england lads back involved and be a slightly bigger squad so the travel's grim
16:26it's not who knows same guys six yeah four hours or something like that i think him all right
16:31traveling 26 hours from brazil where he's been at the moment in the cross and of course the players
16:36traveled as you watch this yesterday it's traveled on sunday and so did two of the
16:42geordie journals traveled on sunday to get across there um it's gonna be a it's a funny summer isn't
16:50it in that regard that there's it doesn't feel there's no natural flow to it i would say when
16:58you say the lack of training and almost that that whole game is the outlier that it's like a home
17:03friendly that you get you can really hang your hat on whereas there's nothing else really no well
17:07we were saying on the drive here the likes of anthony gordon kieran trippy i'm gonna get one
17:13tangible pre-season friendly under the belt before the start of the season obviously caveat out with
17:18the fact we've been training with england for half the summer kieran trippy has been playing so
17:23there's an element of freshness to them but yeah one season one game sorry with the with actual
17:30first team squad they're going to be playing with over the next sort of nine months is is interesting
17:36but some players miss all the pre-season conwellson and miss all the pre-season so
17:40yeah they just need to get back up the speed quickly never mind training what we need to hear
17:46and this is an absolute there needs to be some transfer news there needs to be some movement at
17:51this football club there needs to be a kick up the backside if you like yes of the summer i'm going to
17:58come to both you guys separately and i want you to name one position so there is a need to
18:04strengthen out with seeing three or four positions off the top of my head jordan i'll come to you
18:09first what if you if you were to prioritize when you castulated a position where you see now where
18:15you look at the squad and think that's a weakness we need some strength in there well where would
18:20you pinpoint so there's two i'll give one and hopefully one of you see i need one i'm gonna
18:26say right forward it's a position that really needs strengthened probably since last summer
18:32obviously there's question marks around miguel armand's future but again regardless if he stays
18:37or not it is a position that newcastle absolutely strengthen in the last six months or sort of last
18:43year they went inside anthony gordon harvey barnes the left hand side and that right hand side is
18:47probably one of the few positions under the new ownership they haven't touched and for me it's
18:52just a desperate for an injection of of quality and look jacob murphy miguel armand have done
19:00very good jobs for the club and i think they've got a place in the squad if i'm being honest
19:04i think in terms of your starting 11 it is one of them areas i just desperately strengthen so
19:10and i know that's been sort of reflected so far where there was obviously transfer links
19:14to make a little lease here before you went to buy munich it shows that newcastle are willing to
19:19spend big on that area and i think that you know it reflects how much they do need to go and show
19:23in the area so for me it has to be a right forward i throw the same impression you don't i think they
19:28need a goalkeeper possibly no right forward ties in we've talked about the need of striker but
19:37in terms of a striker i think you'd do very well to bring in a striker who would strengthen the
19:43starting 11 so i'll bring it back and say they need a right-sided center back and that's because
19:50the situation was so at whole where you're playing emil kraft and you're playing dan burn center
19:57backs both players historically for newcastle have been played as fullbacks dan burn is i think that
20:03is his best position left center back but emil kraft's not a center back you've got fabian
20:10jamal the cells jamal the cells is out injured fabian chair has a year left on his contract
20:14potential extension could happen there sven botman out injured obviously he's on the left
20:21side as well i think they need someone on that right center back side too
20:27i don't have much faith in the future of the center back positions if you know what i mean
20:32you've got an agent fabian chair who i love i think he's brilliant he's one he's probably in
20:38my all-time newcastle 11 in terms of a center back he's been excellent sven botman probably is
20:44a future player there's no other player yeah you can hang your hat on in the center back position
20:49and i think they need someone in that area so i kind of concur i can't really come up with a
20:54different position i think well there's merits to both of those i think that's where they're
20:58looking that's what we've said that's kind of where we understand that they are they are looking
21:03you do see a lot of these transfer links on social media and there seems to be so many
21:10newcastle native transfer news aggregators out there that they just churn out the same
21:16rubbish most of the time and you'll always hear the proper the solid news from the geordie
21:21journals whether that be on here on shots tv through the shields gazette or newcastle world or
21:28of course on youtube too so i would just always be careful to watch out for people who will lead
21:34you down the garden path with regards to actions isn't it there is a lot of that isn't that is that
21:40i think that's fair to say yeah but i would say the transfer links this summer have been a lot
21:44more quiet you think yeah i think so because maybe maybe sort of the richest club in the world
21:50narrative is war for newcastle because they were linked with every player on this one and that was
21:54probably came from sort of the foreign media in terms of it yeah it was the main source of italy
21:59although yeah that's the one but i feel like there's some other the links have been fewer and
22:04fewer um which might not necessarily be a bad thing because obviously newcastle have made behind
22:09the scenes changes like say paul mitchell's coming the next era so maybe they've tightened up the
22:15the leaks if i think that's undoubted i do think and i think that's important to stress as well
22:19with regards to the links i think this has i think the change behind the scenes has slowed
22:24processes yeah james's park i think that's undoubted redrawn the balance redrawn on the
22:30lines of power has meant that things have come to a bit of a stop eddie howell hasn't admitted that
22:35but we've spoken twice about this subject um and i think from both conversations you get the sense
22:41that things have been more challenging with regards transfers um i mean we've got to hope
22:48that there will be movement to like i said earlier to to present that team tune up about
22:53three and a half weeks or three weeks or whatever away from a start of a premier league season is
22:58concerning and there needs to be a big improvement if that team anything close to that team gets put
23:04out in any of the opening games of the premier league season then there are definite problems
23:09ahead for eddie howe and the rest of the the players and the coach and stuff i'm sure next
23:15week where we'll be talking a little bit more depth about friendlies against who you all have
23:20red diamonds in yokohama f marinos i sounded more spanish i was like it was a little flare
23:31anyway you've heard enough waffle it's always a waft it'll never warm in here it is i'm so hot
23:39it'll never change but i'm sure it'll be a little bit warmer when you guys get it to yeah we'll be
23:44so cheers guys for watching we'll always be on shots tv every monday night half 10 tune in and
23:50we'll see you there next week