"Where's Balotelli?" Why Newcastle United aren't spending like Man City did

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The Athletic

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 34 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	Brighton. Brighton last weekend, Manchester City.
0:06.0	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, senior
0:16.6	football writers George Culkin and Ollie Kay.
0:19.6	Welcome to the Athletic football podcast. Fans were celebrating at James' Park today
0:29.0	on hearing their clubs been bought by a 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.
0:37.5	Obviously we're delighted that Ruby and yours has come and joined our club.
0:41.0	In terms of the team, it's far inferior to Everton's squad in 2016.
0:47.0	Dan's come in and he's had a huge impact in a very short period of time. He's got a big brief.
0:51.0	Champions League cheese boards, that's all I can say.
0:54.8	So Georgia new season new horizons new hope so far so good. St James is part
1:01.0	we're going to go behind the scenes really and talk about the structure that they're putting in place.
1:06.7	The transfers that have taken place, the transfers that may be still to come. It's all been very calm, hasn't it?
1:15.5	Well that's, in some ways that's the biggest sort of shock of all, Newcastle behaving like a sensible club doing sensible
1:21.1	things. It has been transformative over the past few months, certainly, not least New Castle staying up and signing players in the transfer window.
1:31.0	But yeah, when you look at the takeover and where they are now they
1:36.2	have quite a lot of serious people substantive people in positions of authority and it's it takes some getting used to.
1:45.0	Who has driven the sensible approach?
1:49.0	Where has it come from?
1:51.0	Well, the frits that they've used right from the the narrative is that suddenly they're the richest club in the world and they've got all this money behind them but they've I mean they've been laborious really in a lot of the stuff that they've done and you can kind of go right back to the start to them keeping Steve Bruce for a couple of weeks when really sort of everybody at the club probably including Steve Bruce himself
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