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Simon Jordan Praises Newcastle

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No, that’s not a clickbait headline, something is definitely off kilter in the universe as Simon Jordan has praised Newcastle United’s transfer dealings, which, by extension means he has praised Amanda Staveley. These truly are strange times.

After Newcastle announced a deal in principle to sign Sven Botman – with the formalities likely to be tied up on Friday this week as that will be a new financial year for most clubs –  TalkSPORT’s Simon Jordan has lauded the way in which Newcastle have spent their money in the last two transfer windows.

“It’s not organic, it’s reasonable, controlled, sensible growth,” Jordan told talkSPORT.

“If you compare it to what Chelsea did and what Manchester City started to do in 2008 with the signing of Robinho and people of that nature and we’ve seen what other people have done, specifically and explicitly PSG, no this is not in the same space.

“What [Newcastle] are doing is sensible, it would appear. They are looking at the reality of the manager that they have recruited, they’re looking at the landscape and they’re trying to build a football club with some sensible infrastructure.

“If you can’t learn from the mistakes that were made by Manchester City in 2008, when they went off and made some Hollywood signings like Robinho and it wasn’t an ultimate success, it took them three or four years to get where they wanted to go and it was all part of a journey.”

Right, I need to mark this day in my calendar and go for a lie down. I can’t handle this weirdness.

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