This article discusses Newcastle United's January transfer window, focusing on the departure of Miguel Almirón. It also delves into the financial strategies of the club's owners, PIF, and compares their approach to the ambitious development projects underway in Saudi Arabia.
Submitting your details indicates your consent for The Mag to send you email marketing messages and process personal data. Please read our Privacy Policy. During transfer window s, I tend to just park myself under the radar and avoid all the gossip. This 2025 January transfer window was no exception. It would be madness to sell him, for no other reason than he can provide back-up for Newcastle United in a couple of positions, and if there is one thing the team needs it’s strength in depth.
Turns out that as well as playing centre-back and left-back, he can also play terzino sinistro and difensore centrale. So we moved him on. Finally, on the transfer front, farewell to Miggy, against whom I do not believe a negative word can be said. The consummate professional, who more than made up for the fact that he does not actually have a right foot, with his effort and enthusiasm during his time with us. Another victim of circumstance, his link-up play on the right with Trippier was at times sublime, but when a combination of injury and bench-warming limited Trippier’s appearances, Miggy ended up paying the price. I can’t blame him for wanting to head back to the states. Every footballer has to do what is best for them. In a couple of years time his poor bairn Francesco is going to have a hell of a time at school with his Spanglish accent with an American Geordie twang about it. Another reason I try to avoid transfer windows is the average journo’s insistence that because they are called “windows”, it would be “humorous” to refer to them as “slamming shut”, when in reality they do anything but.Alexander Isak With gold currently sitting around 71.38 pounds a gramme, and Isak said to weigh in at around 77 kilos, that would suggest that this particular journo values our striker at a measly five and a half million pounds. On the PSR front, PIF came steaming out the blocks when they arrived, spending Saudi money while still only bringing in Ashley revenue. And fair play to them, they did the same again the following season. Even if they were working with Jimmy Carr’s accountants, it was inevitable that they were going to have to cut back on the spending at some point to give revenue a chance to catch up with expenditure.I think it would be fair to argue that from a player perspective we can get by with what we have. Bizarrely, when we turn up, we can take on any team in the league. I just think we have a problem at times with changing our game to more better accommodate our opponent’s style. I’m not a great believer in the idea that one week our players are brilliant but the next they’re all rubbish. It’s much more likely that they come at us with tactics we didn’t quite expect, which I think was obvious with Fulham and Bournemouth, and no amount of pitchside scribbling and a half-time pep talk is enough to sort it on the day. In my last article on The Mag, I said that a new stadium was AN option, but the truth is that if we want to move forward, and increase revenue to buy players, a new Building a stadium to increase seats is not PSR restricted, but the money those seats bring in goes straight on to the profit side of the ledger, increasing revenue. Unless of course the Premier League figure out we are about to do that and come up with a new ‘regulation”. I lived half my life in the Middle East, spending time in Saudi, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar, and while there are many things that I could say about the Gulf States (but I might want to go back), one that I will say is, they don’t do things by half. Having figured out many years ago that the oil and gas can only last so long, in their efforts to establish Saudi Arabia as a tourist destination, while it’s still gushing, there are a number of huge projects currently on the go there, the scale of which would bring tears to your eyes. NEOM, at an estimated cost of around 1.5 trillion US Dollars, includes a linear city (The Line), a hub for clean industry, a mountainside ski resort and a luxury island destination. Qiddiya is on the outskirts of Riyadh and is planned to be a 376 square km site that will incorporate parks, sports facilities, art academies, entertainment venues, outdoor recreation zones and resort hotels, including a championship golf course and a Jack Nicklaus-designed Formula One racetrack. If you have been to Dubai you will be familiar with the Burj Khalifa and Palm Island, not to mention the indoor ski slope at the Mall of the Emirates, complete with penguins.
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