"Where's Balotelli?" Why Newcastle United aren't spending like Man City did
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Joining Mark Chapman this week it's Newcastle's "Pope of Mope" George Caulkin and senior writer Oli Kay to answer the question: "Why aren't Newcastle doing the thing we expected them to do?" ie spend tonnes of money.
To answer that question and get an insight into the running of this rejuvenated football this is the podcast for you. Hear about comparisons with Chelsea, City, and Everton and why this is such a different situation to those clubs.
There's also a look into a matchday at St James' Park including something significant on cheese.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.7 | Brighton last weekend, Manchester City, this, Newcastle, they seem to be emulating the former rather than the latter. |
| 0:11.0 | Joining me, Mark Chapman, to talk about the rejuvenated life at St James's Park, |
| 0:16.2 | senior football writers George Culkin and Ollie Kay. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | Fans were celebrating it at James's Park today on hearing their clubs been bought by a |
| 0:30.9 | consortium led by a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. |
| 0:34.0 | One of the big things that they need to do is build a new training ground. |
| 0:37.4 | Obviously, we delighted our Rubino's has come and joined our club. But in terms of this... wealth fund. One of the big things that they need to do is build a new training ground. |
| 0:41.0 | Obviously, we delighted their Rubino as has come and joined our club. |
| 0:46.7 | In terms of the team, it's far inferior to Everton's squad in 2016. |
| 0:49.9 | Dan's come in and he's had a huge impact in a very short period of time. |
| 0:50.6 | He's got a big brief. |
| 0:52.0 | Champions League cheeseboards. |
| 0:53.0 | That's all I can say. |
| 0:58.5 | So George, a new season, new horizons, new hope. |
| 0:59.5 | So far so good. |
| 1:01.1 | St James's part. |
| 1:03.8 | We're going to go behind the scenes, really, |
| 1:06.6 | and talk about the structure that they're putting in place. |
| 1:08.6 | The transfers that have taken place, |
| 1:13.5 | the transfers that may be still to come. It's all been very calm, hasn't it? Well, that's, in some ways, that's the biggest sort of shock of all, |
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