We're heading to Japan with Newcastle United

Dominic Scurr and Jordan Cronin look ahead to Newcastle United's pre season trip to Japan.

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00:00So, we're here at Manchester Airport, getting ready to jet off to Tokyo. Newcastle United's

00:08pre-season in full swing after Hull yesterday. Good game, good warm-up for Newcastle. Now,

00:14this is the crux of it.

00:15Yeah, it's the proper stuff this, isn't it? Yeah, we've got a long journey ahead. A couple

00:21of hours till we take off from Shanghai, about 11 hours I think the flight is, and then we've

00:24got a couple of hours waiting in Shanghai before we go to Tokyo. But, yeah, I've got

00:28my company and we're both looking forward to it, aren't we?

00:31Yeah, really, really exciting. We'll see the likes of Bruno for the first time. We'll see

00:38Fabian Scherminger and Arnold come back, Martin Dabravka, as well as those international players.

00:42We won't see Anthony Gordon and Kieran Trippi unfortunately, but it'll be good for Eddie

00:47Hull to get the sort of meat and bones of his squad back together ahead of the new season,

00:53which starts in less than three weeks' time. So, it's going to be really important. And

00:57we saw at Hull yesterday, Eddie Hull named as strong a starting XI as he could, but there

01:02were still a lot of players who would do well to play Premier League football in the positions

01:08they played. It's still a bare-bones sort of squad at the moment.

01:12Yeah, I think there are the desperate, well, I wouldn't say desperate, but you want to

01:16see recognised players back. You want to see international players back. Obviously, you

01:20mentioned too, I wouldn't be there, Trippi, Aaron, Gordon, but you've got the likes of

01:25who's come back?

01:26Shea is a big one, Bruno is a big one.

01:28Well, Bruno is the main one. I think seeing him will give everyone a lift. And hopefully

01:34as well, there might be some transfer activity, but as we spoke to Eddie Hull yesterday, nothing

01:39is closed. But yeah, I think seeing the likes of Bruno will give someone a lift and what

01:43will give someone a bigger lift would be to see a player come through the door. And you

01:47can't start working hard on that, but as we said to you now, no news. But yeah, good

01:52commercial opportunities over there as well. We should mention that's why they do this,

01:55why they're not straight at the end of last season as much as that sort of was criticised

01:59in some parts. It was, I would say probably the first game against Spurs was good for

02:04the commercial side, maybe not the loss to the ALE All-Stars, but coming up against two

02:10GLeague sides, hopefully get a new fan base. The players and stuff will be out in the public

02:15meeting local fans. So yeah, it should be a productive trip and we'll be covering every

02:20step of the way.

02:20It's bugging on.