Forget SJP development: Journalist suggests PIF have another 'priority' behind-scenes at NUFC

Newcastle United journalist Liam Kennedy has been discussing the state of St. James’ Park and any renovation plans the club might have.

Newcastle’s owners have certainly shown that they are willing to put money into the club when needed – best demonstrated by how much they put forward in the most recent transfer window in a bid to keep the club in the Premier League.

The next step for them when it comes to investing in the club might well be infrastructure, an area that – as these figures from football finance expert Kieran Maguire show – was terribly underfunded by the club’s previous owner, Mike Ashley.

But speaking on the latest edition of NUFC Matters, when discussing whether or not the owners might look to make changes to the ground, with particular reference to the Gallowgate End, Kennedy claimed that whilst the club might look to make improvements in that area of the club, he didn’t necessarily think it would be the most pressing issue at hand for the club’s owners.

He said: “I would suspect there’s a lot of other things that are a priority ahead of that. Look, I don’t think it’s going to be something that isn’t addressed in the next couple of years in terms of what they want to do and their plans, but I don’t foresee it being something that will change immediately. I think it’ll take some time.

“I think the training ground is actually a bigger priority, because [with] the levels and steps that they want to take over the next few years, they need to make sure that they’ve got the infrastructure behind the scenes to attract the type of players that take you to those levels, and Newcastle United don’t have that at the moment.”

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