Newcastle fans will be livid after confirmed £120m reveal – pundit
Newcastle United fans have “had enough” of the Mike Ashley regime – and the club’s recent statement regarding their summer window is the final straw.
So says ex-Premier League hitman Kevin Campbell, speaking exclusively to Football Insider after Newcastle released the statement on 3 September.
The club reiterated its commitment to a sustainable business model “built on the principle that we will spend what we have.”
It was also revealed that Newcastle’s net transfer spend since the summer of 2019 stands at £120million.
That figure includes contingent liabilities, i.e future payments owed for transfers and performance-related bonuses.
Newcastle’s only permanent addition of the summer was the £25m capture of Joe Willock, who spent the second half of 2020-21 on loan at St. James’.
And Campbell insists that the club’s statement will only enflame tensions between the hierarchy and the disgruntled fanbase.
“I think the fans have had enough,” he told Football Insider assistant editor Dylan Childs.
“I say that with the utmost respect because I do respect that club a lot. They deserve better.
“They have brought one player in, Willock, and they are not improving in anything. Then a statement comes out like that, unbelievable.
“The fans have had it up to here. They just want a change, new owners and a fresh start.
“They aren’t getting that at the moment, and that’s the frustrating thing.”
Ashley has been attempting to sell Newcastle for over a decade.
The fate of a possible takeover by PCP Capital Partners rests on the outcome of the Premier League’s arbitration case slated for early 2022.
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