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·29 June 2022

Jordan praises measured market approach of Newcastle owners

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Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has praised Newcastle United's approach to the market.

Jordan says Newcastle's owners are building the squad in the right way.


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"It's not organic, it's reasonable, controlled, sensible growth," explained Jordan to talkSPORT. "If you compare it to what Chelsea did and what Manchester City started to do in 2009 with the signing of Robinho and people of that nature, and we've seen what other people, specifically and explicitly PSG, this is not in the same space. What they're doing is sensible it would appear. They are looking at the reality of the manager they have recruited. They are looking at the landscape and are trying to build a football club with some sensible infrastructure.

"Because 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 and it took them three or four years to get where they wanted to go because it was all a part of the journey. I think Newcastle will spend some more money this summer, they will spend something probably equivalent - in my view and I might be wrong - to what they spent in the January window. That is not insignificant amounts of money but what it isn't, is it isn't fuelling the argument that they're going to hyper inflate the market place, that they're going to buy their way to success, that they're going to be this force for evil because of the nature of the ownership model behind it who have got more money than God.

"But they will spend money and they will compete on wages and inch by inch, yard by yard, Newcastle will spend and spend and spend and not stop spending. Now, they might have a more controlled viewpoint which is 'we'll never dip out of the transfer market'. Teams like Crystal Palace who have got American ownership that's very wealthy, dip out of out certain transfer markets. Newcastle will not determine their transfer policy by what they sell. Nobody really sensible said that they were going to sign Mbappe, nobody really sensible said that they were going to sign Neymar, the sensible voices said they were going to spend a lot of money but if they're sensible with how they spend their money, they'll sign sensible players."

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