It surely happens at every club, but Newcastle United seem particularly fond of hindsight. Releasing players from the youth academy and then later on looking back and regretting that decision.
Indeed, the Magpies had to break a world record to land Alan Shearer after letting him slip through the net as a young’un, but that’s unlikely to have to be the case if the latest rumours about a hindsight signing are to be believed.
Newcastle and Bournemouth are inextricably linked via Eddie Howe these days and it almost invokes an involuntary eye roll as soon as the Magpies are connected with a Bournemouth player by the media.
Antoine Semenyo is perhaps the most high-profile case right now with Newcastle desperate to find a solution to the right-wing nightmare.
