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It was so funny listening. Jordan knows his stuff. He’s not a stupid bloke. It makes absolute sense what year says about this. But, because Wraith is a mag, he won’t listen to reason. He just won’t listen to anything sensible. Trying to cut Jordan off mid sentence as he doesn’t like what he’s saying!!
So he's keeping out of the Big, Big Market and is being forced to go it all a loan!Of all of the various reasons I want Covid restrictions to end, the one I want the most is to see a packed SJP letting rip when Bruce plays 'Rafa-ball' and lets the opposition have possession for 80 minutes
Steve Bruce to @bbcnewcastle on transfers: “We’re going to still have to be patient. I know that’s awful from me but we haven’t the biggest of budgets. In the market we’re looking at - loan market in particular - we’re going to have to let the big, big clubs go to work.”
Just shows the mentality of your typical mag. Rafa blows a kings ransom on mainly 2nd rate players with little resale value and they all claim that they weren’t his first choice players so it’s not his fault. Bruce is forced to look at the loan market and it’s his fault and he’s a poor manager, despite getting them Wilson and ASM.
The Reubens don't need to bully the council like Sir John tried, they already have a cosy relationship with the planning and development departments, having worked closely with them on the purchase of The Monument Mall, and large parts of Pilgrim Street / Grainger Town sites. As well as owning huge tracts of land around Northumberland, Newcastle and Sunderland dog tracks ( don't know why) they are pretty much first in the queue when anything interesting comes up around Newcastle. So they must have/ have had a plan for St.James site, and I still reckon they were ready to propose a new stadium site ( which they presumably already own) to the Arabs , and take the existing stadium site into their portfolio, for their future plans. ( The demolition and return to a 'flat site' you talk about won't even bother them, it'll be all factored into the redevelopment costs) I guarantee that they've already had talks with town planners off the record about all of this, and if they've parked this proposal ( with the Arabs) it's because it doesn't include any of their interests.....as you say they are not interested in owning a football club, or they could have done this by themselves. Incidentally, the Reuben Brothers as such are probably not involved at all, they are both very old, very rich, and very much too long in tooth for this messy deal, but the younger siblings who will inherit the business are busy trying to put their own stamp on the property world, so anything is possible, but they have much bigger fish to fry than Mike Ashley's little club, and I think all the negativity around the deal will make them move on to different things, too messy to bother with, and their efforts will be more profitable elsewhere. NUFC is very much small fry to them, it'll be on the back burner for now I'm sure.
Pretty much correct, the model for these Arabs to try to aim for, or better, is what Man City have done, it's very much a game of one-up-manship, so the Saudis would be honour-bound to go one better that what Man City have, or be seen as a poor relation/ second best/ **** attempt. Now if you look at the Etihad set-up, they have built a new stadium, a training stadium, 20 full size training pitches, over 10,000 new rental apartments, homes, and offices, and a massive swathe of redeveloped land which was derelict and worthless. Basically a small city in itself, but one that will generate income for Manchester City for generations. To even contemplate this at Newcastle, they would need a site so vast that there's simply nothing around the 'toon' that's even nearly big enough, even the unobtainable Town Moor wouldn't even fit the car parking area!!!
Never big enough, never available, never will be, the City Father's won't allow it.
