Got to say if I was asked which club to wish success on but i couldn't choose my own Leeds. I would definitely go with Newcastle.

it always interests me when Simon looks at these things from an accounting perspective, talking about how FFP operates, how they'll generate more profit, how players values will amortise. It goes over the other pundits heads because they're too focused on talking about the same generic rubbish about the takeover that has no substance.

Hasn't been a happy 14 years for Ashley? Oh, poor guy. You neglect to mention that he didn't want us in Europe because he wouldn't be allowed to advertise Sports Direct for free. He also didn't want to pay for flights for the team. That's not just neglect, it's sabotage. You talk about the sustainability of the club but he promised that the club would be free to spend every penny the club generated, but he pocketed most of it That said, credit to Ashley for keeping us debt free because FFP won't hold us back for 3 years

500 mil worth of players with Steve bruce at the helm. Nightmare stuff.

As a Birmingham fan I'd be happy with Mike Ashley. We don't even know who our owners are

A few months ago, the same people applauding this now were crying and screaming that club ownership had gotten out of control and that they were run by people totally detached from football. What do you think is happening now? Funny how a few months changes everything...

Let's be honest, while I agree with the whole human rights/morals thing, the Newcastle fans don't have that much control who owns their club. They've been screaming Ashley Out for 12+ years and he only left yesterday. So stop hating on the Newcastle fans, they support Newcastle, not the owner's regime.

Wolves fan here. It’s clubs like ours that should worry. Newcastle will look at the likes of us to get their first lot of players. Neto and Traore are the sort of players they will go for first. Then get top half and go for the big boys. It won’t take them long. Three or fours years they will be challenging for top 4.

Keown is wrong. Chelsea came 4th the season before roman came in 02-03. He is forgetting that ranieri had 1 season under roman when he bought Crespo, veron & mutu. They finished second that year & got semis of the CL.

Breaking News: Steve Bruce going to the Saudi Arabian Embassy to sign a new long term contract

A lot of commentators seem to be overlooking the fact that after the Keegan era, under Bobby Robson, Newcastle may not have won anything but they were challenging the top 4 for several years and regularly played Champions League football.

I'm a newcastle fan and I'm absolutely delirious with joy

Welcome to paying over the odds and silly wages for players mino riola will be rubbing his hands

I always used to worry that Newcastle would win a major trophy before Man City because I didn't want City to be labelled as the big club that had spent the longest in the wilderness. But I'm genuinely pleased now for Newcastle fans. They are passionate about their club and I welcome the competition. If I was an MU fan I'd be worried!

Simon obviously didn't get the white shirt/black waistcoat memo

if steve bruce gets invited to the embassy he should reduse🤣🤣🤣🤣

The best of luck to Newcastle. All I can say is this is the best form cultural assimilation from the Brits and the Saudis. MBS has single handedly gave the north of England a huge connection with a different culture and country that can only benefit both sides.

Simon talking pure sense here. He isn't likeable but he is correct. Villa fan

Simon speaks real well, listen to the show every day in the van Finally put a picture to the voice Keep up the good work guys YNWA 🙏

Is there anything more patronising than hearing ‘why would anyone move to Newcastle?’, as if Manchester and Liverpool have Caribbean beaches.

Mike Ashley won them two championship trophies. Talk about ungrateful 😂

You can't carry forward profits in the P&L. But for the purposes of FFP they use a 3 year rolling period instead of a year so I think they can offset expenses in this year against profits in the prior two years.

City were ruthless and got Mancini, I can see Newcastle going for Conte and following suit.

The same description of Newcastle Jordan is alluding to regarding Mike Ashley and Newcastle is what I can see happening at Tottenham today

When every club is owned by a billionaire... they'll cancel each other out.

Good luck to them it makes our league even better another team in the mix who could win it grate league

Imagine in like 10 years we have an exact same situation with a player of Kane’s quality at a club out of the top 4 saying he wants to leave play for champions league / trophies & Newcastle are offering 100+ million.. it’s going to be so surreal.

One on the first players they should try to get in my opinion is Zaha. Great player

Simon “New Brooms Always Sweep Clean” Jordan

Ralf Rangnick will guarantee success and takes projects like this

Crazy man they go on as if Newcastle is Stalingrad

City here - maybe now people will stop getting Saudia Arabia and Abu Dhabi mixed up! City's owners have done amazing and made some amazing signings ( Aguero, David Silva, Yaya Toure, Zabaleta Teves, Dzeko) and so on. Takes a long time to. Simon Jordan's analysis is so good btw.

U think woman and men will have to sit separately now lol

I’m happy for them !! They deserve it

Simon jordan what a guy

To be honest first couple of transfer windows we will be lucky to sign players like Maddison (who would be a class signing, no disrespect intended) never mind Mbappe. I think players like Maupay, Traore, Tarkowski are the sort we should be targetting initially. Decent proven premier level players

I can see them starting off with players on the fringes like Ramsey, Van de Beek, Lacazette etc. Would be a good start and they need a “stop gap” manager who can get them going for the next manager

Happy for Newcastle fans even tho it will prob result in less success for my Liverpool, however it will take a lot of years for them to break into any top 4. But now the time is right for them to come in and spend big, plenty of skint Italian and Spanish teams with alot of very good upgrades available, too many options to even mention

I,m a newcastle fans Unbelievable last night over the moon with new owners

some ppl try to do that with anzhi makhachkala, and how that end? Clubs not run like this, maybe in some imaginary world but not in this.

Newcastle have to stay in the premier league first, they have to do a lot of that with what they have, can’t buy until January.

Chelsea finished fourth bet Liverpool to claim CL spot the season before Roman came in. Keown is wrong there

Newcastle fans deserve something to be excited about. I'm an Arsenal fan, so know exactly how it feels to have an owner with zero ambition. Surely Newcastle will be challenging or winning the title within the next 6 seasons.

Salary cap will be coming in a few years. Players who are currently at club exempt on salary cap and academy players always exempt.

i am officially a newcastle fan. shearer is my second favourite after rooney aftrer all.

He should never have bought it Simon, he bought an investment that needed constant capital injections that he simply couldn’t meet. He underinvested every time he had a chance to take the club forward (5th under Pardew and when Rafa came in). Football clubs are social and cultural institutions, he should never have got involved at the level he did.

This is gonna be fun to watch

i think the frustrating thing as a Newcastle supporter was the constant shadow leading also. Ashley would'nt back Keegan got us relegated then backed Houghton or Pardew with something like 100m a year or 2 after. we created a decent squad got 6th, and ashley started forcing players out the door, Carrol,Ba,Cabaye,Townsend and signing someone like Xisco. and even after that disaster, he does it again. forcing Rafa out the door with Perez and getting Joelinton.

Leicester is run by wealthy Thai owners. The success was memorable but sporadic. Even with this takeover Newcastle face incredibly stiff competition from 4 top sides.

Raheem sterling want to leave . Man city should sell him for 80-90 million to NewCastle

Simon Jordan must feel like a right know all the chat he was giving it hahaha up the mags

Well said martin 👏

Griezmann wont be leaving Barcelona to come to Newcastle. He will leave Atleti. Also Keown is spot on with his assessments of where NUFC were, why Bruce should leave (results).

Its amazing that simon uses greizman as an example lol seeing as how he said this would happen. Greizman to Newcastle 2024

Love the haircut Simon

Wow how accurate he was with the B rate signings looking back fair enough we got Bruno G A rated, but 4 others are exactly that maybe not even B rated with Chris Wood.

I'm New Newcastle united Fun from today

"It's my childhood dream to play in Newcastle" That will be new line for upcoming recruiting players "I have been always a fans of Newcastle since i was a kid" That will be the new line of new fans🙄 And am one of them too So yeah am a Newcastle fan🙂

Chelsea takeover was in 2003, won first EPL in 2004/2005 season. Man City takeover was in 2008, won first EPL in 2011/2012 season. Leicester City takeover was in 2007, won first EPL in 2015/2016 season. Liverpool takeover was in 2010, won first EPL in 2019/2020 season. That should be the context where Newcastle would be compared to.

Good to see someone with a brain on talksport.

The suffering is finally over for the Newcastle fans 🙌

Well pleased for Newcastle, their fans deserve it. Great club, great fans, happy days ahead.

After nearly 20 years of following them its finally cool to be Newcastle fan in Ireland, everyone over hear either supports man utd or liverpool.....Toon Army!!!

Depends how much their main sponsorship deal is worth. The more it's worth the bigger the spending limits.

Keegan told Rob Lee that Newcastle was closer to London than Middlesbrough, who were also interested in him.

so what if they relegate? 500m in the championship would be fun haha

How does the FFP works can a clu pay unlimited amount of money if they have new owners? I've never understood FFP rules

Martin Keogh talking sense here mate

It would be funny if they get relegated this season.

To be a newcastle fan right now after hearing *simon says*: "they can spend a billion dollars" 🤯🤯🤯🤤🤤🤤🤤🥰🥰🥰🥰 Conte must be drolling!🤤🤤🤤 A billion dollars spent to create my own fantasy football legacy 😍😍😍😍

Jordan swaps glasses with keown nice of him 😆 🤣

Its not about how many players newcastle can buy,they should invest in the structures and training facilities and improve all aspects of the club

I'm happy to say now that I'm a Newcastle fan 😎

He makes money bottom line, he’s not got a bottomless pit, I get that and respect it, they ait got no debt 🤷🏽‍♂️

Look at jim and Martin twinning.... full kit

Roll on four months, brilliant first transfer window brilliant unbeaten run going back to Christmas and steadily moving away from the bottom three, you just couldn't wish for any better. This club is going places after years of under funding and under achievement.

the new owners will have to look at the city and invest in it and its people, create more jobs, improve the infrastructure near the stadium, more people will start looking at it

1 hour max to London on the many private jets at Newcastle Airport...the top players have minimum time to make maximum money and if you have been to the toon you'll know why it's the best city in the land ! up the mighty mags!

Get some solid young players like Maehle and Miranchuk from Atalanta, Boga from Sassuolo, David from Lille, van de Beek from Man Utd, Isak from Sociedad. A few established names sure, but hopefully some smart long term recruitment too.

Oh this is a symphony to my ears.

they technically did win something under Ashley...the championship😂

“New brooms always sweep clean.”

At least now the hate on Mansours city will ease off and it'll deflect towards MBS' Newcastle, I think Newcastle will need to consider recruiting younger players under 23 that have potential and build from there instead of trying to sign on the fringe players from the big clubs, the manager also has to be a younger manager with the modern philosophy. They can then add experience with a bit of senior players

It’s best time those new owners and I know witch team they going to Barcelona a lot players are available they can got easy

As a Sunderland fan I am looking forward to the Derby next season in the championship 🔴⚪🔴⚪

No we will have a domestic "el - cashico" 😁😁

in the short term much of that squad will not be good enough for the plans ahead that might effect how they play mentally . A real possibility of relegation before anything starts to change.

It snows in the summer up Newcastle I can’t see big players going there without 10m a week wage

Personally I love all this money and takeovers happening as the best players will be in the premier league and make it massively competitive.......this is the European super league. Hahaha

Are these owners not the same people who chopped up that famous journalist guy Jamal koshoggi

I don't think these owners expected prices to rise so high for players

Talk of Gerrard being front runner for the soon to be available head coaches position !! Would Gerrard even go to anyone other than Liverpool in the English top flight? Would Gerrard actually accept a position knowing he would automatically become a rival of his beloved Liverpool?! Would that other club’s ambitions and financial position ect even come into Gerrards thoughts? I’m very doubtful! Also, how long will any new manager get to build and develop a team and a specific style ect when ultimately, most likely being force fed mega money new players on massive wages ect. Thus inevitably piling on so much pressure to succeed very quickly! I’m not so sure. I’m not so sure many managers of great stature will see this job as being appealing as many may think. And as I mentioned… will any management team truly get full control over who comes in and who ultimately makes up a new starting 11 in the next few transfer windows? And not just that…. How do Newcastle fc swing certain spending with current financial fair play rules ect. It’s not as it was when Chelsea got taken over or Manchester City. Or even West Ham…. It’s so so much different now. Can Newcastle sell much of the players they have atm within a short time scale and bring in 4/5 hundred million. Even 2/3 hundred million. Can they? Who do they have worth over 30/40 million that’s also on a few hundred grand a week??! Not one! Yet they would need to sell atleast 5 to reinvest based on their financial fair play standings. Maybe Thts why the likes of Steven Gerrard are being touted. Because it’s going to be a slow rebuilding process and not the Chelsea style revamp a lot of their fans are praying for. Ps. Maybe if so… rangers will at last receive a genuine transfer offer from a real club for Alfredo Morelos lol it’s a given that he goes with Gerrard… Nathan Patterson and glen kamara aswell. He rates them all very highly.

MBS the new king of the north Tell them to get ready, summer is coming 😄✋

Incoming players : I watched Goal and iam a fan of Santiago Muñez , so it's my dream to be like him and play for this Hollywood club

I could see Jose coming in at the end of the season. keep bruce with a little investment to keep us up. I think he'd leave Roma for Newcastle if the owners can show they're serious.

Jim u say players dont go north ....r we forgetting keegan ,beardsley,15 million shearer, Ferdinand,asprilla,ginola,cole .....all prem league legends

They have to get sam allardyce in now and tell him he can have 10 million tax free to keep us up this season and then do one hahaha

The toon will sign players who put wages first , player currently on 250k , come to the toon we will pay ya 500k ,

That Amanda Staveley looks like she bought her face-lift from Sports direct 😳

Mike Ashley Is a very shrewd businessman Boys and Germs...