Whitley mag

Very predictable clubs just vote to protect their own interests, the tribunal verdict and City’s response will be the true test on this. Telling that clubs voting against were all non American owned.

Much prefer Camperdown to the racecourse as slightly closer for me selfishly. If where heading down this way though just build it on the Links.

Fender new single being critically acclaimed and topping the charts, should be fun watching when he announces huge gigs at St James’ today.

St James’ Park in its current guise just isn’t fit for purpose, sounds like even the architects have said the aesthetics would still look poor even with huge investment. If that’s the case I’d imagine the acoustics would probably be even worse than they are now, not to mention the sight lines which are already shite for circa 15k seats in level 7. A new stadium with a huge single tier stand, window overlooking our great City, great acoustics, sight lines, something which looks spectacular, huge modern concourses, more fans boosting the city’s economy, a chance to cater for all types of fans and create a big singing/standing end and welcome, or not great corporate offerings to grow club. Modern football is shit but it’s never going back to the 80’s and 90’s, we either move with the times, or get left behind. Staying at St James would also destroy any atmosphere which is left, the new Anfield Road end is full of day trippers and corporate, it hasn’t improved Liverpool’s atmosphere one jot and looks very underwhelming when compared to Everton’s new stadium.

Interesting part below, would love them to take over the new arena development which appears to have run into trouble, could be a real earner for club like the Co-Op arena in Manchester and make the development even more ambitious. Investment in Newcastle (the city) to follow? There were also little indicators, which were not fleshed out, that further infrastructure projects, inside the club and around the city, might be announced soon. Miller explained that his role overseeing infrastructure investments involves the stadium, the training ground, the academy and “our future plans”. He did not directly reference a new training ground, but plans to recalibrate the present site are being explored, and the long-proposed idea is that Newcastle will build a state-of-the-art facility elsewhere. Capper, meanwhile, was asked whether infrastructure spending is exempt from PSR calculations. He replied that it was complicated, but “it’s mostly outside”. He continued: “This (STACK) is an example of the type of thing we’re looking at across the business in terms of investing capital to generate more revenue from the club going forward. We’ve got some exciting pipeline ideas. A lot of them are not quite ready to share, but they are bubbling under. And hopefully, over the next few months, we’ll be revealing a bit more about how we grow the revenue by investing in Newcastle and this club.” The implication is that Newcastle are looking at investing beyond the footprint of the stadium and into the wider city.

Newcastle chiefs are working on new plans to expand the site of the current training ground, Confidential can exclusively reveal. A gravel area currently used as a car park and where some staff are housed in cabins has been identified for the planned development, which will increase the footprint of the Benton base and accommodate an ever-growing backroom operation. We have been told the move should not be misinterpreted as the club deciding against a new training ground, but it is an indicator that a brand-new development is still several years away. Indeed, we can reveal that the club have taken out a five-year lease on the Northumberland FA building at Whitley Park, next door to the current site. This is now being used by the scouting, media and communications departments. Discussions about a new training ground have been commonplace among staff and players in recent years, given the cramped nature of their North Tyneside home. However, there is now an acceptance that many of them will not see a new complex during their time at the club. We understand ‘three to four’ sites have been shortlisted, including land near Newcastle Racecourse - owned by the Reuben family, who have a 15 per cent stake in the club - while the others are ‘in and around’ Ponteland, close to Newcastle Airport. Chief operating officer Brad Miller is leading the project and Ryder Architecture were involved in some early-stage drawings. Newcastle's training ground is set to be expanded after being planned for a number of years The likes of Bruno Guimaraes (left) and Alexander Isak (right) were promised the expansion when they signed, and now it is set to finally happen But while the plans will be ambitious and a much-needed next step when it comes to offering players an elite, daily environment, the delay is said to have frustrated some. Everything I’m hearing as this process continues is that option two is the most likely. Indeed, when I wrote for Mail Sport last month that I had changed my mind and now favoured a move to a new stadium - instead of staying at St James’ - there were some inside the club keen to know more about a social-media poll I ran asking what option supporters preferred.

Gyokeres would surely jump at the chance to play with Isak next summer. Bring in a top centre back, find our Odegaard type player and we’d be fighting for the title.

Exciting times ahead. i also understands that stadium specialists who were contacted by the club in the early part of the feasibility study were uniform in their opinion that “bolting on” additional seats or adding piecemeal to St James’ Park would be costly and far from ideal in terms of aesthetics. It’s understood that an interim solution of a small increase in capacity or patching up the stadium – one of the options looked at originally – have been ruled out in favour of much more ambitious options.

Seattle, not sure what it changed its name to but always seemed a good atmosphere in the heart of the city. No brainer for a new stadium said it from the start you can’t have a best in class facility with the East Stand restrictions, even then the Milburn and Leazes are so badly designed and not fit for purpose anymore.

MetLife stadium hasn’t aged well considering how recently it was built and stadiums that followed not long after, would be a bit gutted if I was Jets/Giants fan. As much as it’s a new stadium for me it can’t be a soulless bowl surrounded by car parks off the A1.

Very reasonable request from Villa, quite why these corrupt cunts want to push through a vote without the tribunals clarification beggars belief. The red tops and Levy will push for it to go through, just needs another club on top of those mentioned, possibly Everton though doubtful with new American owners.

Born in Shields within spitting distance of Tyne consider myself 100% a Geordie, off their tits some of these cunts. They’d also do well to remember that the casualties were chased into the river Tyne by 80% of North Shields lads when they ventured into these parts.

I find the general threads over there even more embarrassing than their football ones, would fully recommend for a laugh when anyone’s bored, never realised I was 12 miles up the road from the French Riviera and one of Englands great City’s.

Is it not the case though that but for the shareholders loans, the player sales would have been to keep club afloat not purchase Minteh ?

Great that Brighton bailed us out of FFP problems but galling that they were able to do it through unfair means.

Jowell represented Ashley in the takeover proceedings, this definitely looks positive for us and will be interesting if the likes of Liverpool vote against it knowing the current rules are illegal.

All well and good but we aren’t just expanding the Gallowgate and being left with the East Stand in it’s current guise.

Hopefully where scouting Nicolas Kuhn from Celtic for the right wing looks exciting, plays with head up, scores goals and can go by players. Just shows with good scouting and spreading the net wider than the PL you don’t need to spend a fortune.

Good article by Samuel seems to get it unlike some of these cunts from the Guardian and Delaney etc.

Think a new stadium is the only way to close the gap and the sooner we do it the better, before they put restrictions on that.

Feel the next 2 games tell us a lot about where this is heading, I still don’t see there being any appetite to remove him, but go out of the cup and tumble further down the league and even his most ardent supporters will be having doubts.

I don’t think any of the signings as individuals are bad players. What I question is the positions and type of players he’s targeted, I also think playing it safe in the market is for clubs who have wriggle room with PSR, we haven’t got the income yet to pay premium prices for PL proven players in every position. I think backing him in the summer with Guehi and Elanga would have compounded the previous summers bad window, yes we need a CB but not at 60 million and Elanga is another speed merchant with little end product.

Did recruitment let him down in the summer, or was he part of the issue, does backing him in January mean giving him players like Guehi and Elanga ? The most likely scenario is that he’s still here in January, however any signings will fit in with Mitchell’s strategy and that in itself might bring things to a head again.