Newcastle

They are not going down. They will bring in a new manager and a load of quality players in January. Then they will spend big in the summer.

But breaking into the top four is difficult even for owners with 250 billion in the pot. But in the long run they could outbid even the likes of Chelsea and City. The question is how much are they willing to spend. One billion is the table stake for this class of company. It's probably what the top four have spent on players over the last few years years.  

According to the Manchester Evening News the top four have spent as follows in the last ten years:-

Man City   £1.42 Billion
Chelsea    £1.38 Billion
Man Utd    £1.09 Billion
Liverpool   £0.91 Billion

Ok, so all of the above clubs have received incoming transfer fees too, so the net figures will be lower. Bit still, it's a hell of chunk of change.

Well I for one am already fed up listening to flipping Ne-Castle fans going on and on about how great they are and how rich they are.

Barely a week after the takeover and they havent even played a game yet. What a flipping obnoxious bunch of twits. They havent won anything yet but are already unbearable. iIstand by my earlier post...they will soon become the most detested club around (and not just by Sunderland fans)

Quoted from RonMariner

According to the Manchester Evening News the top four have spent as follows in the last ten years:-

Man City   £1.42 Billion
Chelsea    £1.38 Billion
Man Utd    £1.09 Billion
Liverpool   £0.91 Billion

Ok, so all of the above clubs have received incoming transfer fees too, so the net figures will be lower. Bit still, it's a hell of chunk of change.

A mere drop in the oilwell for a couple of those clubs. Manyoo loaded up with debt by the owners who are there to milk the fans for every penny. Liverpool probably the least dodgy of the lot, though of course the holding company which owns the club is incorporated in Delaware, the state which operates as a US tax haven.

Any other petro-states left looking for a bit of sportswashing, I wonder? If the West eventually drop sanctions on Iran, I suppose the Ayatollahs could be looking to buy that mid-sized Premiership club they've all supported since they were boys. Only kidding. No way that the sanctions on Iran will ever be dropped for as long as the Saudis have a say in things.

There’d be some big win bonuses on offer if an Iran owned club played Newcastle.

And the taunts from Newcastle: “you’re Shi’ites and you know you are.”

Quoted from RonMariner

They are not going down. They will bring in a new manager and a load of quality players in January. Then they will spend big in the summer.

But breaking into the top four is difficult even for owners with 250 billion in the pot. But in the long run they could outbid even the likes of Chelsea and City. The question is how much are they willing to spend. One billion is the table stake for this class of company. It's probably what the top four have spent on players over the last few years years.  

Money can only so much, money alone will not get Newcastle anywhere near the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea & Manchester City. They will need to get the balance right and will take time, bringing a load of quality players in Janauary, might work, but not guaranteed, spending big in the summer again will not guarantee success.

Agents are going to line up outside St James Park pushing their players, inflated wages demands, inflated transfer fees by clubs, buy-out clauses, players to pay off to make way, working within financial fair play.

Sounds great having unlimited funds, I can see alot of problems that comes with having unlimited funds.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

Money can only so much, money alone will not get Newcastle anywhere near the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea & Manchester City. They will need to get the balance right and will take time, bringing a load of quality players in Janauary, might work, but not guaranteed, spending big in the summer again will not guarantee success.

Agents are going to line up outside St James Park pushing their players, inflated wages demands, inflated transfer fees by clubs, buy-out clauses, players to pay off to make way, working within financial fair play.

Sounds great having unlimited funds, I can see alot of problems that comes with having unlimited funds.

One problem they're going to have, and in fact have already only without the gazillions to throw at it, is that by and large Newcastle isn't a particularly attractive place to live for young players and their wags.

It's a nice city, don't get me wrong, but it's geographically isolated so you've got what's there and little else. Money talks, of course it does - the likes of Marouane Fellaini didn't move to Shandong Province for the ambience, but I think it will be more difficult to attract top, top talent to the Geordies than it was for Chelsea, Citeh et al.

All that said, I don't greatly care. This isn't reverse snobbery, I do watch Premier League football, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned by the way money is distorting football at the top-level and beyond.

Quoted from Poojah

One problem they're going to have, and in fact have already only without the gazillions to throw at it, is that by and large Newcastle isn't a particularly attractive place to live for young players and their wags.

It's a nice city, don't get me wrong, but it's geographically isolated so you've got what's there and little else. Money talks, of course it does - the likes of Marouane Fellaini didn't move to Shandong Province for the ambience, but I think it will be more difficult to attract top, top talent to the Geordies than it was for Chelsea, Citeh et al.

All that said, I don't greatly care. This isn't reverse snobbery, I do watch Premier League football, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned by the way money is distorting football at the top-level and beyond.

There's plenty to do outside Newcastle if you like the great outdoors. Whether that's going to attract football's elite players or not I couldn't say.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

There's plenty to do outside Newcastle if you like the great outdoors. Whether that's going to attract football's elite players or not I couldn't say.

Put it this way, Louis Vuitton wellies aren't for rambling.

Quoted from Poojah

Put it this way, Louis Vuitton wellies aren't for rambling.

There was a Geordie girl on that rambling programme the other week (the one where they give each other points) and she was in stuff like that.