The Newcastle United Blog

The money each club got in the Premier League for last season has just been released, and Newcastle are in 13th place with £45,168,771 – approximately – but this is  more than £9M less than we received last season, when we finished in 5th place in the league. We had forecast last week that would be around £8.8M. That’s a little [...]

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It was a surprise to us that our new French players did not have pay-cut clauses put in their contracts if we are relegated, when they signed in January, and as a contrast, QPR to attract top players had to put release clauses in the contracts of their new players, so that Loic Remy and [...]

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Newcastle have announced their financial figures for the year ended June 30 of 21012, and the club was able to announce an overall profit of £1.4M, and that compares with last year’s figure of -£3.9M, and that’s really the first profit Newcastle have had since Mike Ashley took over the club in the summer of [...]

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Derek LLambias has given some exclusive interviews today to the Newcastle Journal, and he talks about some of the financial plans in place for the club – and that there has an effort to keep the wages to revenue (turnover) percentage at or below 60% – it was around 75% when we were relegated – [...]

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The Evening Chronicle had exclusive interviews with the Newcastle Managing Director Derek LLambias yesterday and they were good ones, and would you believe it the Newcastle Journal has exclusive interviews with Derek today – and yes – they are different interviews. Newcastle Managing Director Derek LLambias

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We’ve seen clubs like Manchester City, PSG and recently QPR spend money like it’s going out of style, and the Financial Fair Play Rules (FFP) seem to be having little or no effect on some of the big spending European football clubs. Michel Platini – UEFA President

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We’re pleased that somebody has mentioned the ridiculous financial deals QPR owner Tony Fernandez is doing in each transfer window – in an attempt to keep QPR in the Premier League – as the owner pays way over the odds in both transfer fees and wages – like the £80K/week he paid Loic Remy to [...]

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Newcastle Unite have once again cracked the top 20 list of football clubs based on revenue earned in a season, and Newcastle revenue for last season – 2011-2012 – was £93.3M, but that is still around £7M down on what it was back in the early 2000s – when Freddy Shepherd was still running the [...]

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