Newcastle told failing to make ‘X-factor’ January signing ‘may come back to haunt’ them | Football | Sport

“All I can say is that if Steve Bruce had bought in all these players there would have been uproar, and I think that tells you everything you need to know,” Merson said to Sky.

“If they’d have managed to get Jesse Lingard in that would have been the player with the X-factor they needed, but that hasn’t happened. They haven’t bought in that player with a real point of difference in the forward positions.

“They have bought in players to be more solid, but it is okay being solid, you need that X-factor as well, and I think they may struggle putting the ball in the back of the net.

“Not getting Lingard in may come back to haunt Newcastle. You don’t know what was going on, you don’t know what Lingard wanted and you don’t know what Manchester United wanted.

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