For some it’s been underwhelming. To others, it’s exceeded expectations. Newcastle United’s season is in its infancy, but that doesn’t stop us passing judgement - and that includes when it comes to the players.
After every game Inside NUFC rates the performance of each player who gets on the pitch, importantly, before the 80th minute. After 80, players get an N/A, but come on before it and you’ll get anything from a 1/10 to a 10/10 - both are, of course, the extreme rarities of the scale.
Newcastle have played seven games. Twenty two players have appeared for Matthias Jaissle in that time. Some have played all, some only a few. Only 16 qualify using our criteria. We take each player’s score from an individual game, add each game’s score up, then divide it by the number of games said player has played.
We then get a score - and that is said player’s NUFC POWER RANKING.
Who scored well and who didn’t? You’re about to find out.
NUFC POWER RANKINGS - Countdown to the top 10
N/A - Nick Woltemade, Fabian Schar & Tino Livramento (2 games), Ewan Jaouen, Aladji Bamba & Will Osula (1)
16th - Jacob Murphy - 5.25
15th - Matias Fernandez-Pardo - 5.37
14th - Baz Toure - 5.66
13th - Jacob Ramsey & Lewis Miley - 6.0
11th - Nico Gonzalez - 6.25
NUFC POWER RANKINGS - Who breaks the top 10?
10th - Malick Thiaw - 6.41
9th - Anthony Elanga - 6.7
8th - Sven Botman & Harvey Barnes - 6.71
6th - Sean Steur - 6.75
5th - Joe Willock - 6.78
4th - Lukas Hornicek - 6.83
NUFC POWER RANKINGS - The top THREE!
3rd - Yoane Wissa - 7.0
2nd - Amar Dedic - 7.16
1st - Lewis Hall - 7.57