The Saudi Investment Fund is awaiting the latest measures to announce it as a new owner of the ancient English club Newcastle (founded in 1892), for 300 million pounds, after submitting legal documents to the official authorities in Britain to receive the leadership of the club instead of the English businessman Mike Ashley who spent 13 years searching for Recovering the lost glory unsuccessfully from the flight of the "Macbase" bird, which fell in his reign twice in 10 years.
Newcastle United are currently 13th in the Premier League table with 35 points before stopping due to the Corona pandemic (Coved 19).
The fans of Newcastle, who have been absent from the league title for 93 years, hope to arrange the team’s conditions again and reproduce the Emirati experience led by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, who brought life to Manchester City to win the title “Premier League” four times during his reign. , The first of which was in 2012 after an absence of 44 years, and the "Citizen" is considered the last two versions in addition to achieving all possible titles in England last season.
There are other temptations that prompted the Saudis to invest in the English club, the most prominent of which are: Newcastle's passion for football, which is inhabited by 270 thousand, and the large public presence of matches whatever the results (50 thousand spectators per game), and the city owns only one club, and facilitated the task of Saudi attraction to Newcastle the troubled relationship in the last period between the club 's fans and owner Mike Ashley because of the constant concern of landing a third time in his reign, and the absence of a clear strategy for competition, dating back another League championship achieved by the club to 1927.
the transition impending ownership of Newcastle means that Saudi Arabia will be Examples Bnaddein in the English Premier League as the ownership of the Sheffield United club to Saudi Prince Abdullah bin Assistant back bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Transfer of ownership deal
The likely ownership transfer story started in the next few days, according to the British newspaper "Telegraph", from 2017, when Ashley offered the club for sale, but no buyer was agreed upon, before the Saudi Investment Fund offered to complete the deal through British businesswoman Amanda Staffeli .
The newspaper said that "the ownership of Newcastle Club will return to three parties, the lion's share of which will go to the Saudi Investment Fund by 80%, while the remaining 20% is divided equally between Staveli, and the two English businessmen, David and Simon Reuben."
She explained that "Staffeli received the file of negotiations with the owner of Newcastle Ashley over the past four months and it was finally agreed on the sale price of 300 million pounds ($ 370 million)."
The new administration,
British and Saudi sources suggested that the governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, Yasser Al-Rumayyan, assume the presidency of the club. The newspapers Okaz and the Daily Star said that the new administration also plans to appoint Al-Hilal star and the former Saudi World Cup team Sami Al-Jaber as a member of the Board of Directors.
It is noteworthy that Al-Jaber previously had a professional experience in the English Premier League with Wolverhampton Club, but it did not last long.
The coach of the team
As for the technical area, press reports in the two countries stated that the new administration is studying the files of four coaches to lead the team instead of the English Steve Bruce, they are: former Spurs coach Argentine Mauricio Pocitinho, a former Newcastle coach and Dalian Weifang, the Chinese currently Rafael Bentiz, the coach of Milan Former Italian Juventus Massimiliano Alegre, former Roma and Inter Milan coach Luciano Spalletti.
But Pochettino will be the first choice to take over, and he will receive an annual salary of 19 million pounds, according to the Mirror newspaper.
Professionalism of the Saudis The
imminent transfer of ownership of the English club to the Saudi Investment Fund opened the door for the professionalism of Saudi football stars, and the dream of Al Hilal international player Salem Al-Dossari became close to the truth with professionalism in the "Premier League", as a report linked to the British "Techno Codex" named the player to wear a Newcastle shirt.
Al-Dosari, 28, who kidnapped the spotlight and received praise from European newspapers during his participation with Al Hilal in the Club World Cup 2019, had previously had a professional experience with Spain's Villarreal on loan for six months since January 2018, and appeared in the yellow shirt in one match that was against Real Madrid in the "League".
Newcastle will not be satisfied with Al-Dossary, as the site clarified that "the English club also wants to contract with Al-Ahly Jeddah international goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Owais."
The proposed stars, and compared
to the ambition of the new project, bright names on the world stage European newspapers have started talking about negotiations being conducted by the new administration for Newcastle with them, most notably: Frenchman Killian Mbappe, “Paris Saint-Germain”, Brazilian Felipe Coutinho “Barcelona - loaned to Bayern Munich” and French Antoine Griezmann «Barcelona», Uruguayan Edison Cavani «Paris Saint-Germain», Belgian Radja Naingulan «Inter Milan - loaned to Cagliari», French noble poor «Real Betis», Nigerian Emmanuel Dennis «Club Bruges Belgian», English John McGinn «Aston Villa» Nathan A. J «Bournemouth», the English Jesse Lingard «Manchester United».
The Ten Temptations
1. Reproduction of the successful Emirati experience with Manchester City in England.
2. A city passionate about football.
3. The average attendance of the team's matches at home is 50,000.
4. Newcastle is home to 268,000 people.
5. Newcastle The city's only team is not like the multi-team Manchester and London cities.
6. Newcastle fans angry at the club's owner, British businessman Mike Ashley for the team's retreat.
7. The team fell to the First Division twice in 10 years at the hands of Ashley's management.
8. Restoring the glories of the ancient club .. its last championship in 1927.
9. The financial return in the Premier League is greater than the rest of the European leagues.
10. The Corona pandemic contributed to a significant reduction in the sale of the club.