Newcastle United fans may not be overly happy with the all-too-familiar glacial pace of the club's transfer activity so far this summer, but there's a confidence from within the club that all will be fine.
As we've said many times before, it's hard to judge just how much truth is in each transfer story as far as Newcastle United is concerned. Fans and journalists alike can become attached to the idea of a particular player joining the club when, in truth, there's no actual interest from those with the money.
Since Newcastle were taken over we've often spoken about how our owners like to operate in the shadows with their transfer business and are very good at throwing up smokescreens.
The perfect example is the club's pursuit of Harvey Barnes. For months the media and fans were convinced that Newcastle were hunting James Maddison at Leicester when it turned out to be Barnes all along.
A similar thing happened with Sandro Tonali. All of the attention was focused on Nicolo Barella and then suddenly we were announcing Tonali.
So this all feeds in perfectly to what The Telegraph are saying that Newcastle United are happy that their international targets have remained secret, also leaning on the Tonali deal as an example.
The club are likely to be working on deals we've not even had a sniff of yet. It obviously doesn't change anything when it comes to the pace of getting deals done, but if the deals are staying out of the public eye, it makes it easier to get them done without alerting rival clubs.
We aren't even going to try and speculate as to who we could be looking at, but we are going to take solace in the fact that it sounds like things are in the works. Although we will just note that Ousmane Diomande's name was mentioned in The Telegraph's report.
The transfer window opens again on Monday, and Eddie Howe has made it clear he wants players in place before they return to training in mid-July, so there is still plenty of time to get things done.
Trust the process and all that. It's an annoying phrase, but sometimes it's the best fit.
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