Yesterday afternoon, Newcastle United an English Club has been taken over by the Saudi Arabian Consortium and they bought the club ownership for £300M. And with that Newcastle united has become the club that has the wealthiest owner in world football and their net worth is a whopping £320 BN. It is more than the net worth of the top ten richest club owners in the world. But I am not here to discuss the money, I want to talk about football and will this be starting off the new era of a club?
After the news breakout, everyone is saying that they will buy this player or that player, and they will win everything in the next 4-5 years. But my thoughts are a bit different here it can be right or wrong.
The road to success or re-development for Newcastle will not be easy as it seems. To become a World-class club you need a solid sporting project. And for a solid project, you need the right team to lead the charge of the sporting area. And they have to lay the foundation from the basic which is youth football, everyone talks about City signings and how much cash they spend but look at their youth level football and how they are nurturing youth and they have some great talents in their academy. A player like Phil Foden is a great example.
And next thing is they have to create a culture of football in the city and within the club, a sporting director or the personnel related to the sporting area should decide how they want to play football what they want to offer to the world. A club like Barcelona and Real Madrid are famous for their culture, like Barcelona is famous for Tiki-Taka and Real Madrid is famous for Galacticos signing. So, they have to create a culture of whether they want to invest in youth or they want to buy superstars from the market. And which brand of football they want to play and what their goals are. And creating the unique identity of the club is one of the hardest things to do so.
And another thing is if you have money and you can spend big it doesn’t mean that any player will sign for the club. Great players always want to play for the club who are well established like in the premier league if any player got an offer from United, City, Chelsea, or Liverpool then the player will like to play for these clubs who are competing at the highest level. And when it comes to money, nowadays all the clubs in the world have resources to smash wages on the table especially when you talk about Premier League clubs. And because of Financial Fair Play, they can’t just throw money while signing the players they need to be astute in this process and have to value the players fairly.
And the next thing is signing a new manager; talks already started that Steve Bruce will be sacked and even he admitted this publicly that he knows he may get sacked at Newcastle. But the dilemma is who will be the next manager? According to bookies, Antonio Conte is the favorite to take the position of head coach of Newcastle United, and Steven Gerrard’s name is in the air too, and it will be interesting to see whom they root for.
So these are my views, I hope you like them and I will love to hear your views on this.
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Sportsoff 