I sat and scratched my head and wondered why Benjamin Sesko would choose to move to Manchester United instead of Newcastle United.
A club (man you) clearly in decline, without European football and a recent track record of ruining players and managers to the same extent.
Why would he not want to become a member of a team reborn in the image of Eddie Howe? A manager who is brilliant in the absolute best of players.
Sesko could be the next Isak, Bruno or Tonali. He could help us take us to the next level. Why wouldn’t that be the project he would choose?
The same applies to Pedro or Ekitike or Delap and all other players with whom we are connected in the summer. Why is it that when we have a competition from the ‘Big Six’, we lose?
The obvious obvious answer is money, or more specifically, PSR. The clubs in those top six can all offer more money to players, even those who are not yet at the level of the top earners. They can afford to offer long contracts and take a point on those younger players who have not yet reached the elite level, but show those potential. The financial capacity to do this is a privilege that only a few have, and the location has decided that there should be no new additions to this very short list of super clubs.
Some of me think that we all want to comfort ourselves with the PSR argument because the alternative is that players, like the other clubs, more than we are, and that is indigestible. Money is undoubtedly a factor, but there is more going on if we can be honest with ourselves.
I will guarantee the following by saying: I know nothing about the inner functioning of the spirit of a football player, just as I don’t know any earthly reason why Americans would vote twice to choose Donald Trump as president. Both football players and voters are clearly influenced by some smart and manipulative people.
There is currently an unmistakable mistake in our club, which can be another heavy factor to prevent us from recruiting the players we want. Separate the team’s club and we are not such an attractive prospect. I am not talking about the morality of our owners here, but more about how the club is run, what the goals are.
We got up like a Phoenix from the axis when our Cockney prisoner was finally separated from Newcastle United. The feeling of hope and togetherness was like nothing we have ever seen in football before.
Yes, you could compare it to the acquisitions of Chelsea and Man City, but this was a bit different, because the people who led this turnout were crispy (and it seemed) approachable. Ambitious people with charisma and class. I’m talking about Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi. Their ability to leave fans, players and journalists behind them were Pied Piper-like. Their downfall and now the lack of a dull and CEO must be a concern for every player who is linked to our club?
Others have said it, but now I am starting to see that there is an unmistakable truth in that vision.
The clear lack of credible leadership in the club will players and their advisers ask what kind of club they would join?
Would it be a club like Everton or Leicester who had rich owners, but no idea how to mix with the big boys, only for those wannabe owners to spend big and make a mess and disappear?
Yes, Newcastle has the richest owners in the world, but they have enthusiasm and patience for the long game. They had to compete with disappointment that this project will not be successful from one day to the next because of the financial rules. The Newcastle project must be properly managed and requires long-term planning and dedication of PIF. Has this changed their wish to be here?
The evidence suggests that this can be the case without stadium and training grounds plans, no new CEO and dull? What is the vision now, and if the number one is, how does Newcastle United come when the road is deliberately blocked?
The truth is that people like Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd etc. Moving of managers and players will change when needed, but they will always be there or therefore in the competition and players who are successful for those clubs will always be well paid and compete at the top. Those clubs have mass, they have lay management and are run with enormous budgets. Perhaps Man Utd is not the best example of this, but they will always generate income and always have potential.
Our Saudi owners began to create and develop the system to replicate and even surpass those established clubs, but, as someone recently said, when Sesko sat down with a ‘real estate developer’ in Newcastle United, who has nothing to support his great vision for the club, we would have lost the race.
We may have a fantastic manager who has transformed the club and that he will continue to successfully bring Newcastle United and will make our number one, but it may also be that he will eventually do what he does with more resources at another top club.
Newcastle United is larger than one man, but that is only if the club is in the core with vision and sustainability in the long term. That having appropriate will give us the kind of players who have escaped us this summer.
HTL – Established Geordie in Texas
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