Newcastle United’s season has surpassed the expectations of even the most fruitful of fans, with Eddie Howe’s outfit just two points behind fourth-place Tottenham Hotspur despite holding two games in hand.
Last season, the Magpies received an anticipated and affluent takeover, with the Saudi-led consortium pumping life and color back into a proud and prestigious football club that had fallen from its perch and been relegated from the Premier League on two occasions over the past decade.
A similar fate appeared to loom, with United starting the 21/22 campaign miserably and mired in a relegation battle at the time of the deal, but the dismissal of Steve Bruce, subsequent appointment of current boss Howe, and shrewd work on the transfer front has swiftly instilled hope and confidence back into St. James’s Park.
Newcastle stormed into an impressive 11th-place finish last season, continuing to craft a cohesive and oiled new team that now perches in European contention.
No player embodies the club’s resurgence more so than Joelinton, who was signed for £40m in 2019 from German Bundesliga side Hoffenheim as a striker and spent the early phases of his career in England embroiled in inconsistency and a timid goal threat.
A switch in position has rekindled his career, with the Brazilian powerhouse now one of the Premier League’s most robust and dynamic center-midfielders.
How is Joelinton performing at Newcastle?
To say it hasn’t always been plain sailing for the 26-year-old Magpie would be an understatement; originally a center-forward, Joelinton scored just two goals in his first Premier League campaign and four in his second.
In fact, the £85k-per-week ace has failed to surpass the four-goal mark to this day, scoring four goals yet again last season before clinching just two strikes in the top flight this term, but the prowess of his play now lies in a different department.
