In the first two years post-takeover, Newcastle were building a quality side. Bruno G, Botman, Isak, Gordon, Tonali, Hall, et al.
From September 2023, the financial rules stopped them from signing anyone significant for three windows - despite having owners worth almost £1trillion.
Now they are being picked off. Needing to sell to buy.
Any PL club can spend £70m on a player. Only a select few can fork out £300k-a-week on half their team.
Restrictions were introduced to prevent clubs from going bust. An unforeseen (conspiracy theorists may claim deliberate) consequence ensued. Every club must now stay in their lane.
Those outside the “big six” in 2015-16 (when PSR was introduced) might have a fling with cracking the elite. But the financial order will soon push them back to where they belong.
Newcastle - and other aspirational clubs like Aston Villa - are now stuck in a catch-22 situation. They cannot afford to blunder a singing.
Anyone who comes good will inevitably be sold - and I’m not sure how that changes. If the measures were introduced at any other point in English football history, a different set of clubs would make up the “big six”.
They are simply lucky. The other 14 should recognise PSR/SCR for what it is….
Financial Un-Fair Play. #NUFC
@Sutherland3_@celtic_jaime Used to be my favourites used to watch them all the time for a laugh, what was the random song Joe Rico started playing again?
Did Trippier down tools when Bayern came calling?
No he buckled down and shagged every uni student Jesmond had to offer.
Could learn a thing or two, Alexander. 😤
Keir Starmer says they have free speech in the UK, but they arrest people for silent prayer.
They release pedophiles from prison to make room for people who say mean things about Islamic rapists.
And they’re holding @TRobinsonNewEra in solitary confinement for showing a film.