As Diamond works to try to make Newcastle aggressive, he is aware of “hawks” are attempting to recruit his gamers for subsequent season.
However he admits that he can be doing the identical if the Falcons have been in a stronger place.
As it’s, the north east membership are already 4 factors adrift on the backside of the desk and dealing with a battle to keep away from a relegation play-off on the finish of the marketing campaign.
“The hawks are choosing on us in the intervening time,” he mentioned.
“I get a number of calls this week about ‘can I purchase X participant off you’. As soon as I inform them how a lot I would like, they appear to go very quiet on the cellphone.
“It is enterprise. We’d do the identical if we had the useful resource to do this. However I’m amazed the place a few of the golf equipment who’ve approached me get their cash from. You assume they might be capped up.”