Neville reveals why Newcastle revival has ‘not been incredible’

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Newcastle United have been one of the stories of this Premier League season as the Magpies currently sit third in the league table but not everything has impressed Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville. 

When Eddie Howe replaced Steve Bruce as Newcastle United’s manager last year, the club were in 19th place in the Premier League as survival looked like a tall order but the Englishman has the club far away from those days now due to some great coaching and signings.

The Tyneside club made shrewd signings this summer with the likes of Nick Pope, Sven Botman and Alexander Isak, in particular, coming in through the doors of St. James Park but Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville is not fully impressed by the Magpies due to the money they have.

“It’s not incredible because we know when Saudi Arabia came in, there was going to be more money put in. They were going to buy better players,” he said on The Gary Neville Podcast on Sky Sports Premier League.

However, Neville did go on to credit the club’s approach since being taken over, saying, “The early signings have been measured, you see sometimes sovereign wealth funds coming into football clubs and all of a sudden, there has to be a star to pin to it. A badge of honour almost.

“We’ve not seen that with Newcastle actually. They’ve been a lot more measured in terms of how they’ve gone about it. Bringing in a manager, Eddie Howe, I would think it is fashionable but he would not be deemed a celebrity manager.

“The way they’ve done it has been quite controlled, and they’ve built a spirit and a good team ethic. They’re getting more out of the players who were there before.”

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  1. I’ll tell you what is incredible Neville, your hypocrisy and the fact that you bleat on about human rights issues, then you go and sign up with BEIN Sports, to commentate for them at the World Cup in Qatar, who’ve got way more worse human rights issues than anyone else.
    Did you moan about Man Utd arab sponsorship deals? No!
    The Saudi Arabian regime have been helping to fund Manchester United since 2008, twelve years! Their deal with state owned Saudi Telecom is the ‘longest running of all our commercial partners’ this Manchester United official statement says below in 2017.
    Then in 2017, Man Utd agreed yet another very lucrative revenue stream from the Saudi regime, ‘the General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia’ in partnership with Manchester United.
    Ps tell me again, how much debt Man Utd are in? How much have they spent on players?

  2. Absolute hypocrite cannot bide the bloke. He will line his pockets with blood money in Qatar, but that’s ok isn’t it matey. His beloved manure have been taking the blood money for years and he has not once mentioned it. HYPOCRITE

  3. well said, they are hypocrites , all the top six are squealing because another team are challenging them. I must exempt Man. City and Arsenal in that critique.

  4. And let’s not forget the I’ll fated European super league by our so called super six Liverpool , Man Utd , Tottenham , Chelsea , arsenal and Man City ( off the top of my head)
    This showed us all how greedy all these teams were at the time
    I think every fan of a premier league club was so pleased when the whole thing collapsed
    But most fans of the teams involved were against
    It as well
    We shall never forget……,..,….,,,

  5. What would truely be incredible is if this guy were to ever successfully manage a men’s football club. Thank goodness our tv’s have a mute button

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