There's been plenty of talk about how Newcastle need to copy Manchester City's blueprint to turn themselves into a superpower in the next few years.
First things first, though, they need to do what City did to dig themselves out of relegation trouble the season they were taken over by their Abu Dhabi owners in 2008.
City had rushed through the signing of Robinho in September but were in the bottom three at Christmas. They went out in January and bought Nigel de Jong, Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge and Shay Given.
Newcastle don't need a new keeper but those sort of established players and characters are exactly what they need in their situation now.