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 had been in a stronger place.
As it’s, the north east membership are already 4 factors adrift on the backside of the desk and going through a struggle to keep away from a relegation play-off on the finish of the marketing campaign.
“The hawks are choosing on us for the time being,” 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 need, they appear to go very quiet on the cellphone.
“It is enterprise. We might do the identical if we had the useful resource to do this. However I’m amazed the place a number of the golf equipment who’ve approached me get their cash from. You assume they might be capped up.”