Newcastle United’s summer transfer window left an awful lot to be desired. Having only narrowly avoided a ten-point deduction from the Premier League in June after selling Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh quickly to meet PSR rules, things never really got better from there. There was a public pursuit of Marc Guehi that failed to come to fruition. Newcastle pulled out of proceedings during the closing stages of the transfer window despite a series of failed offers, leaving little time to source an alternative. It has been a difficult start to life in the job for sporting director Paul Mitchel…