Newcastle United boss Steve Bruce admits he was frustrated with their summer market campaign.
Bruce said he was "frustrated" at his inability to bring in loan players including Leicester City midfielder Hamza Choudhury on deadline day.
He didn't hide his frustration either about the club's policy of spending within its means, as was underlined in a statement issued last week. Joe Willock, who cost about £22m, was the club's only major signing during the window.
Bruce said: "My job is to always try and improve the squad and never be satisfied. Never. I thought a couple of additions to the squad on loan would help us enormously, unfortunately it wasn't possible to do that.
"I was hoping that we could trade a couple to bring in a couple unfortunately that didn't work. So [it's] frustrating but that's the stance, and I knew what the stance of the club was, I think that statement is made it pretty obvious where it is. So I have to accept it, and move on."
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