Newcastle United have signed Scotland international forward Martha Thomas from Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee, with the club confirming the move on its official website nufc.co.uk.

Thomas arrives at a club in the middle of a major rebuild. Newcastle signed nine players in the summer 2026 window and lost their leading scorer, Emily Murphy, to Brighton. They also failed to win any of their final six games of the 2025-26 season. Manager Tanya Oxtoby needs goals and needs them quickly, and Thomas is the kind of proven finisher who can provide them.

The 30-year-old spent three years at Tottenham after joining from Manchester United in September 2023 Tottenham Hotspur. She scored 13 goals in 66 appearances across all competitions, wearing the number 17 shirt. Her most memorable moment came in the north London derby, where she scored a historic winning goal against Arsenal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tottenham Hotspur.

Last season, Thomas spent the second half of the 2025-26 campaign on loan at Liverpool, getting regular minutes after falling out of the picture at Spurs BBC Sport. Now she gets a fresh start at a club investing heavily in its women's team. Newcastle have been building ambitiously, and a squad that lost its top scorer and limped through the final weeks of the season needed a statement addition.

Thomas brings experience from across the Women's Super League — England's top-flight women's division — having previously played for Manchester United and West Ham United as well as Spurs. For Newcastle fans, her signing is a signal of intent: a Scotland international with a derby winner on her CV, arriving to replace the goals that walked out the door with Murphy.