PIF and RB Sports & Media

[Ben]

16 minutes ago, LFEE said:

The North East bulkhead slowly developing.

 

Poor Makems, the Saudis will soon own the sky above them, that must be why I saw a few of them chucking left and right hooks at it the other day when I drove through.

[huss9]

unless its money into PSR its still all a bit meh for me.

[Whitley mag]

15 minutes ago, huss9 said:

unless its money into PSR its still all a bit meh for me.

Narrow view they are further committing to the area and it can only help grow the airport it’s good news.

[frankpingel]

I understand to some extent given we're Newcastle United supporters but it shows further commitment to the area. The knock on effect is a strengthening of the ongoing investment in NUFC. They're hanging around for a while yet.

[TRon]

1 hour ago, Whitley mag said:

Narrow view they are further committing to the area and it can only help grow the airport it’s good news.

 

 

It's absolutely fantastic news. My worry was that at some point PIF would get fed up of PSR handcuffs and buy Man U instead.

 

This shows they are here for the long haul.

[Danh1]

Class news. Saudi government investing more in the city than our own. 

[JonBez comesock]

On 07/03/2025 at 20:55, JT24 said:

Looks like Staveley was back in Newcastle today. 

She fell of the stage at the end and hurt herself - I know a few people that were in the audience, she also cried and got upset when talking about leaving the club / complicated (didn’t explain why)

[Stifler]

Just now, JonBez comesock said:

She fell of the stage at the end and hurt herself - I know a few people that were in the audience, she also cried and got upset when talking about leaving the club / complicated (didn’t explain why)

And people think she’s going to buys Spurs, haha.

 

In all honesty, I’d love for her to be back at the club, and with Eales leaving, I don’t see why she can’t be the CEO.

If not, the council should be working with her in order to bring investment into the city.

[Izakaya]

37 minutes ago, Stifler said:

And people think she’s going to buys Spurs, haha.

 

In all honesty, I’d love for her to be back at the club, and with Eales leaving, I don’t see why she can’t be the CEO.

If not, the council should be working with her in order to bring investment into the city.

Agreed. 

Really feel she's the conduit between the club and fans that feels like it's missing at the moment. 

 

[JigsawGoesToPieces]

13 hours ago, Stifler said:

And people think she’s going to buys Spurs, haha.

 

In all honesty, I’d love for her to be back at the club, and with Eales leaving, I don’t see why she can’t be the CEO.

If not, the council should be working with her in order to bring investment into the city.

 

Staveley was amazing for us post takeover but i think she's a bit of a reckless businesswoman.

 

She left us in a mess PSR wise (honestly reckon the Saudis binned her cause of this) and shes obviously got herself in a mess a few times outside of football too where she has been sued. 

 

In the PSR world of the Premier League id rather have someone who had experience of being a CEO in football, who can improve us commercially and increase revenue.

 

If we can get someone who is as good as Staveley at communicating then that would be fantastic but IMO Amanda isnt the answer.

[kingxlnc]

4 minutes ago, JigsawGoesToPieces said:

 

Staveley was amazing for us post takeover but i think she's a bit of a reckless businesswoman.

 

She left us in a mess PSR wise (honestly reckon the Saudis binned her cause of this) and shes obviously got herself in a mess a few times outside of football too where she has been sued. 

 

In the PSR world of the Premier League id rather have someone who had experience of being a CEO in football, who can improve us commercially and increase revenue.

 

If we can get someone who is as good as Staveley at communicating then that would be fantastic but IMO Amanda isnt the answer.

agreed, not as CEO. That needs a specific type. Eales was a good fit. 

She could defo be Chief Information Officer or Communications Officer tho - then it'd be worth subscribing to the Athletic for all the exclusives Caulkin would get
 

[JT24]

1 minute ago, kingxlnc said:

agreed, not as CEO. That needs a specific type. Eales was a good fit. 

She could defo be Chief Information Officer or Communications Officer tho - then it'd be worth subscribing to the Athletic for all the exclusives Caulkin would get
 

I’m surprised the club haven’t appointed a Chief Communications Officer yet, one thing that needs a very good strategy. Especially with what could be a tricky stadium announcement soon. 

[TheBrownBottle]

2 hours ago, JigsawGoesToPieces said:

 

Staveley was amazing for us post takeover but i think she's a bit of a reckless businesswoman.

 

She left us in a mess PSR wise (honestly reckon the Saudis binned her cause of this) and shes obviously got herself in a mess a few times outside of football too where she has been sued. 

 

In the PSR world of the Premier League id rather have someone who had experience of being a CEO in football, who can improve us commercially and increase revenue.

 

If we can get someone who is as good as Staveley at communicating then that would be fantastic but IMO Amanda isnt the answer.

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[localshop]

Hopefully PIF might actually provide some adequately priced parking facilities for drop off and pick up. 

[Scoot]

3 hours ago, JigsawGoesToPieces said:

 

Staveley was amazing for us post takeover but i think she's a bit of a reckless businesswoman.

 

She left us in a mess PSR wise (honestly reckon the Saudis binned her cause of this) and shes obviously got herself in a mess a few times outside of football too where she has been sued. 

 

In the PSR world of the Premier League id rather have someone who had experience of being a CEO in football, who can improve us commercially and increase revenue.

 

If we can get someone who is as good as Staveley at communicating then that would be fantastic but IMO Amanda isnt the answer.

 

Totally agree about the PSR mess we were left with.

[Dr Jinx]

4 hours ago, Scoot said:

 

Totally agree about the PSR mess we were left with.

 

I don't see how she could have done much differently.

 

The summer after we qualified top 4 perhaps. All signings were either unavailable or took a long time to bed into the team.

With the overall injuries we had, you can pretty much pick at any decision and give a could have/should have comment, but ultimately she delivered what the manager wanted.

 

The previous window was pretty much perfection.

 

I agree she's not the person for the CEO job but there's a place for her to keep PIF invested. Her real skill is getting these ultra wealthy types interested and participating.

[wyn davies]

4 hours ago, Scoot said:

 

Totally agree about the PSR mess we were left with.

Without the so called mess , unless something drastically was done , would we have stayed in the PL, for me no different to peeps saying take the risk spend money and take points reduction

[Scoot]

6 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

 

I don't see how she could have done much differently.

 

The summer after we qualified top 4 perhaps. All signings were either unavailable or took a long time to bed into the team.

With the overall injuries we had, you can pretty much pick at any decision and give a could have/should have comment, but ultimately she delivered what the manager wanted.

 

The previous window was pretty much perfection.

 

I agree she's not the person for the CEO job but there's a place for her to keep PIF invested. Her real skill is getting these ultra wealthy types interested and participating.

 

I'm not questioning the players we signed, I'm questioning the financial outlay we committed too. Whether you like it or not we over spent in the 1st few windows hence the reason we've spent next to nothing for coming up 2 years this summer.

[Scoot]

2 minutes ago, wyn davies said:

Without the so called mess , unless something drastically was done , would we have stayed in the PL, for me no different to peeps saying take the risk spend money and take points reduction

 

You're referring to the first January window we spent in, which of course was necessary to stay up. I'm questioning the outlay on players as a whole since PIF took over. We spent too much in terms of PSR, that's a fact.

 

That's why we had to scramble to sell Anderson and Minteh and why we've spent next to nothing for a couple of years.

 

 

[Dr Jinx]

1 minute ago, Scoot said:

 

I'm not questioning the players we signed, I'm questioning the financial outlay we committed too. Whether you like it or not we over spent in the 1st few windows hence the reason we've spent next to nothing for coming up 2 years this summer.

 

We were in the relegation spots. That first January window couldn't have gone any other way. Of course we had to over pay to get players in.

 

40m on Barnes is the only one i can think of where we just didn't need to spend that, the rest there's a case for.

[Scoot]

1 minute ago, Dr Jinx said:

 

We were in the relegation spots. That first January window couldn't have gone any other way. Of course we had to over pay to get players in.

 

40m on Barnes is the only one i can think of where we just didn't need to spend that, the rest there's a case for.

 

I'm not questioning the first window, of course we had to spend. 

 

There's more to it than that. I'm saying we overspent from a PSR position. In other words we could have also moved someone on to give us more wiggle room these passed 2 years. We didn't, hence the zero first team players due to our spending in previous windows.

[wyn davies]

7 minutes ago, Scoot said:

 

You're referring to the first January window we spent in, which of course was necessary to stay up. I'm questioning the outlay on players as a whole since PIF took over. We spent too much in terms of PSR, that's a fact.

 

That's why we had to scramble to sell Anderson and Minteh and why we've spent next to nothing for a couple of years.

 

 

miinterpreted what you ment 

[Dr Jinx]

6 minutes ago, Scoot said:

 

I'm not questioning the first window, of course we had to spend. 

 

There's more to it than that. I'm saying we overspent from a PSR position. In other words we could have also moved someone on to give us more wiggle room these passed 2 years. We didn't, hence the zero first team players due to our spending in previous windows.

 

Aside from selling the players we don't want to sell.. who exactly aside from Minteh and Anderson could we have sold? There was no interest

[54]

For me, it's quite simple, she oversaw the most enjoyable time I've had supporting the club, she cared and wanted nothing but the best for it, we overspent on a few players sure, but bar a few they've basically all been really good business so who gives a shit? She left the club in a much better position then when she found it and that's all that really matters, and some artificial spending rules aren't going to change that.

[Kanj]

People casually ignoring we had a CEO, CFO and other board members present at the time who all signed off on the club's direction.