Sandro Tonali was the strutting alpha male on debut in Newcastle win

Sitting at Newcastle's training ground with sporting director Dan Ashworth last week, and with Eddie Howe just along the corridor in his office, chief executive Darren Eales revealed: 'We've spoken about this — we would struggle to have a signing that was a total miss, because we just don't have the resources yet from a revenue perspective.' At this point, the feeling remained that Sandro Tonali — at £52million from Milan — could be a hit, miss or anything in between. There, manager Howe was forced to address rumours of Tonali being made to leave Milan, his boyhood club, against his will. Eales and Co can rest assured, Tonali will not be a miss.