I think this type of investment is inevitable under FFP restrictions if we want to achieve the things the owners are striving for. The memories of growing up watching my team in St James' Park will never be lost by the name changing, and if it enables me to see us lift a trophy then I will accept a sponsored stadium name. If you offered me Mike Ashley back for 50 years and playing at St James' Park or winning the title and potentially champions league at the Aramco Arena, the name of the stadium wont emotionally effect me. I just want to see my beloved team continue to grow the way they have this past year, creating the same loving memories with my boys as I had under King Kev and Sir Bobby, hopefully this time with some silverware!
As long as they keep St James Park in the name it’s no different! “Saudi Golf @ St James Park” is no problem at all. We get the sponsor money and it’s still referred to as St James park by all the fans. Happy middle ground👍
Definitely a big yes from me. Together with new main sponsor next season, we could be looking at 100-150 million extra to spend on transfers, every season.
They will do it subtly at St James Park, as they’ve seen the backlash from all the Sports Direct Arena branding. PIF have just invested $3billion in green bonds and I think they’ll go down that route at SJP with something like SJP powered by Saudi Green Initiative where they’ll put lots of money into how they’ll make it more green efficient (not just turning the lights off like Ashley). Then when they build a new training facility (and a new stadium in 10 years time) that will be named after the sponsor and again embrace all the eco stuff.
Football stadiums will become global commercial arenas. The top teams will have commercial deals with NFL, entertainment (singers) and the latest stadiums will have the engineering to accommodate multiple projects and events. With that comes naming rights and huge commercial growth. It will also make teams worth billions. If we want to be elite unfortunately the days of football stadiums will be dated and nufc will look eventually to build the latest stadium to make a commercial statement. As fans we need to weigh up success and cups for traditional views on what a club is
Matty what time would you expect our team bus to arrive at Old Trafford on Sunday? I'm there but in the Corporate with work. Hoping to get there early.
If we want to compete at the top of the Premier league and be in the champions league we have to sell as much as possible.. It will always be St James Park in our hearts but let's take the next step, look at arsenal now!!
Easiest work around is to keep the name St. James's Park and just put the sponsors logo at front and end of name. The main difference is we know these owners will re- invest in the club, unlike the fcb.
I think it's fine along as it says Saudi airways @ st James park.we all need remember since theses owners come in they've kept there promise and for us to be on the big stage with man United and real Madrid and that we need to take this leap of faith and trust what they doing is the right thing for our club. we need to meet them half way.
As long as we keep St James’s in the game I don’t have a problem. I would also be happy sponsor deals for naming rights for the stands with a similar deal. We should also look for sponsorship for the training ground like other teams do
Name it Aramco stadium of it means pays for the new training ground or a James Maddison. It’ll still be St James to the fans. The difference from Sports Direct Arena and this is that the money will be invested back into the club and any signage will be respectful and professional. Be warned, don’t hold the club back from owners who actually want NUFC competing with the best in Europe or you may lose Bruno to Madrid.
IF the name change makes it 'something at St James Park' or if it changes completely to 'Acme Corp Stadium' for example, it makes no difference as everyfan will still call the stadium St James Park, it'll only be the TV, Radio and written media that would call it by its new name.
Don't mind having a name change if it helps the club go forward and compete going forward if its something @st James Park the its nothing and if the whole name changes then at the end of the day it will always be St James Park to the fans
I'd be happy with a (sponsor name) @ St James Park, as long as the name doesn't completely change, if Mike did this with sports direct I'd have had no issue with it either (obviously as long as the money went into the club, which it clearly wouldn't have under Mike), it's a nice middle ground and can bring a lot of cash our way.
It could be saudia st. james park sounds nice mates, or anyways if the saudi pif changes the name of the stadium totally then who cares I mean they're the new owners and can do whatever they wish for of course only for the best of newcastle united, a perfect example is arsenal they went from the legendary highbury to building a new stadium and naming it emirates or man city naming theirs etihad airways so in European football everything is business and marketing now and the new sponsorships for the magpies are going to be massive for building new training ground,investing in the academy, maybe even building a new stadium with more capacity for the geordies, and of course signing top level elite players that will take the magpies to compete in UEFA champions league and maybe even winning one or two like Abramovich did with chelsea when he was owner,true newcastle fan as me and more fans all over the world will never forget the historical name of St. James Park but I think it's time for the black and white to move forward onto the bright future perspective with the Saudi pif group,amanda staveley and mehrdad ghodoussi,howay the lads⚫⚪🇸🇦😀🤑❤💙👏👍👌
What the owner need to do? 1: Meet the fans and have a proper discussion on the situation. 2: leave the name St James park in with the new sponsor. 3: Don’t pepper the stadium with a load of signs. To us fans it will always be called St James park. and they won’t stop us from calling it St James park.
We need to move with the times as long as its money coming in to help the club,team,ground,facilitys and area I dont mind we need big money coming in to be able to get big money players, I been going to SJP since the early 70s it will always be SJP to me whatever name is put on it.
If we want the investment, move up the league and continue to grow its inevitable. At the end of the day they own the club and I trust them as they havent done us wrong at the minute. I'm a fan but they actually own the club, they are responsible for the money side of things and to be honest they should be able to do what they want, with the money they have pumped in and will continue to do so with further investment.
The sooner newcastle fans realize that for their team to be the best naming rights are part of it and you need to shelve your feelings about it in the interest of newcastle united getting to the top and we all know sjp will always be sjp no matter it's name is changed completely or not its all for the benefit of the city and the team in terms of the state of the art facilities you fans want
Depends how you pronounce it, say on match of the days they could go "Next we have Newcastle hosting Tottenham at Aramcos....St James Park" rolls off the tongue and doesn't sound too bad!
We need to look at the bigger picture and take into account all angles! The way the club is projecting and going forward I’m 100% for! Is fans will always call it St James park, that’s a fact! But if we are wanting to bring in world class players and the infrastructure into the club, this is a must! Exciting times ahead!
If it improves the squad, then I have absolutely no problem with it. The issue I had with the previous attempt at changing the name, was it was never about improving the team, it was just free advertising for he who shall not be named.
Ashley’s adverts were pound-shop tacky and too many. I feel our new owners will get high-end sponsors and advertise with more class. I can also live with Aramco @ St James’ Park, or something similar, PIF@SJP.
i reckon this was always going to happen but hopefully these owners will see that we have already had very strong feelings towards the renaming of stadiums
Yeah, this is will be entirely different from the Sports Direct bullshit. I believe the majority of fans will be totally fine with this, we will still refer to it as St James Park.
Please don’t! There’s these iconic stadiums around the world, the Bernabeu, Camp Nou, San Siro etc in England we have 3 Old Trafford, Anfield and St. James park these owners haven’t done a thing wrong but I really hope they don’t change anything about our stadium other than maybe make it bigger if possible
IMO I don't have much of an issue with it. However I think the problem with Ashley is, he named it after a car boot sale. It sounded terrible. Keeping the St. James' Park name in it is preferable though.
Yeah I'm for it under the right circumstances, we all know Ashley only had his own interests at mind when he changed the name. Difference here is I genuinely think it will only be done in the future with the club's best interests at mind.
You have Arsenal, Man City, Bolton, Spurs (potentially) have all done it and got massive money for it. We are disadvantaged enough being based in a poor area we can't let a few sentiments stop us finally being able to compete
I think this is a test, Mehrdad called SJP the Cathedral the other day he knows what that name means and the Prince will probably have discussions with him aswell
They should partner up with a company and rename the training ground to what ever company buys into the club. Liverpool recently did it and didn't have to sell the Anfield name nor did Man Utd. The training ground exsisting or new one when they move should be named not SJP.
Does it really matter if it's renamed? Pretty sure all fans will still call and class it as St James's park. If you want the club to compete with the best the money generated from naming rights would put us a hell of a lot closer !
It’s inevitable that it’s going to happen. St James’ Park powered by ……… suggests the sponsor is fuelling the success of the club, which of course it would be, so I think that’s the best way of setting it out. Selling the naming rights however, should be linked with reducing ticket pricing for fans aswell as generating money for players, that way everyone’s a winner.
“Saudi James’ Park” 😂😂😂 I mean playing devil’s advocate, there is one major difference and that’s: Ashley wouldn’t reinvest the money and our new owners will. But, there’s no need to panic, they will run it by the fans first. No willy nilly decisions. We’ll see what happens and what they have in mind in terms of “partnership”. It’s a loaded and vague term. Let’s see what it’ll mean 😊
Different story now that we have owners who care about our club we know that a name change of St James Park would benefit the club massively with the money that it would generate unlike under Ashley who was only interested in one thing his back pocket.
If or when they move the stadium it won't be St James Park any more anyway so we need to start getting used to it now. I can't see them totally change the name any time soon but I believe it's coming so let's get used to it.
It’s still be st James park to me , but now the club is in different times and game is different . I don’t have problem , been enjoying the football since the takeover
I can't see the problem. So what if they change name. Every other high flying club's are doing it. It seems to me it's all take and no give. Argue against it let them Saudis walk away take other Bournemouth are summat and get some one like Mike Ashley back. Be careful what you wish for
Definitely not. Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham all left their original grounds so there is no comparison. Build us a new stadium and then name it want you want (or poll the fans). Don't rename St James's Park. Money isn't everything.
Genuine in their reason for this to comply with ffp and benefit the club as a whole. Unlike Ashley's thinly veiled attemp to sell naming right as an excuse to incorporate shit direct into stadium name.
Realistically I suppose for the sake of commerce add reluctantly support name change of some form. Saint James Park is synonymous with Newcastle united. However, should there be a construction of a new ground which is not likely to be either on the same site as present or in the centre of town, then that would not be called St James’s Park wherever it cited so a name change in the future is highly probable. For my 50+ years of support of the Toon, St James Park and Newcastle United are almost interchangeable but in these days of commercial realism and FFP it’s a case of do we want to be more successful or do we want to stagnate? I’d like to see some success before I kick the bucket. #HTL
I wouldnt mind at all, it is inevitable that these things have to happen to take that next step I hated it with Ashley because I knew it wouldnt of changed a thing this will actually help
Personally I only think the name of a stadium should be changed of the location of the stadium in the city changes plus St Jame's has been our stadium name so I'd prefer that to remain the case.
The amount of heart the owners have in the club, they would only do right by the club. I think if a name change brings us the cash and satisfies ffp rules where we can actually spend the cash, then go for it. Remember, nobody called it anything other than st James park even when it was sports house of direct Fraser stadium or whatever shite he tried to brand it. 🤣. The club is going places, and the only way to do that is to move with the times, let the owners do what they need to do so they can invest further in us. Everyone wins. SJP is in your soul, it’s not just the sign on a building.
It will always be St James’s Park regardless of what it’s changed too. Personally I’m not too bothered, it’s a small price to pay for the amount of joy, success and enjoyment PIF will give us over the next few years. Anything it’s changed too will include @ St James’s park anyways in my opinion. :)
I think the problem when Ashley did it we new as fans the club wasn't going to benefit and it was a owner only benefit hence the sponsorship deal that was horrendous
I think fans won't mind the the name change aslong as the money is put into the club compared to fat Ashley getting advertisement for his stores and no money getting put into the club
A bit late to comment..but what to do times are changing like never before.. the heart beat of nufc Will always be saint james park This is the time to grasp the nettle + Put the pedal to the metal 😁😁😁😁😁 Hwtl+l
Can’t wait for rival fans that never mentioned anything about Mike Ashley when he changed it to sports direct arena to suddenly say we are selling out souls etc
No name change. There are surely other ways to increase revenue. Nothing would signal money grabbing as renaming St James' Park. Similarly, acknowledging the importance of the traditional name would send the message that integrity and community identity matter.
@@geordietoonforlife.1155 My concern is that we don't turn into the new Chelsea, where everyone hates us. The Keegan years managed to bridge tradition with growth, and success. I retain the hope that this regime does its talking on the pitch and secures steady progress rather than throwing money everywhere, whilst slapping a brand label on every available surface. I want our club to be respected, not loathed.
Old Trafford, Anfield, Stamford Bridge... identity. Some things should be untouched. I Don’t give a crap about the money for a sponsor - explore every other area yes and put up sponsors on the stands yes - but identity is non-negotiable for me. And for those saying it will always be known as SJP - 1) a company won’t pay money and not push for the ground to always be referred to as them 2) after a generation has been and gone, the name SJP will be gone with them “We wanna win everything” I assure you, after trophies have been won, you only have identity left and if that’s eroded, it will feel hollow.
I love the name St James Park and if this is inevitable, personally I’d would rather not have St. James’s Park then whatever they want it to be, I think it makes it look and sound tacky I’d rather just have the one name.
If the name gets completely changed then I would be extremely disappointed and quite frankly extremely angry as well. The history and name is too big to just sack off for some money and I mean it wouldn’t stop me from being a fan but it would certainly tick off a couple points for me on how much I like the ownership and sponsorship.
I wouldn't like it as I love St James Park, but lets face it to win the league and champions league etc this will need to happen. We need money to do this and sponsorship is the best way of doing it, as a fan changing the name i would grumble about it but in the big picture I wouldn't my self make a fuss and soon come to accept it if the toon was challenging year in and out for titles.
If they learned anything about Ashley the re-naming of St James Park was one of his biggest fuck ups and this will be the new regimes first big mistake. You make the ground name a brand in itself.
Absolutely no comparison like. Would have been far different if Ashley got a proper sponsor for the stadium and invested the revenue into the playing squad
Change the stadium name...then why not change the traditional black and white strip, then why not move to a new stadium..does it have to be in Newcastle/Tyneside not really ...does it have to be called Newcastle United..not really. Where will it end ? Would you sell your soul for success...some might.
I could put up with the stadium being called something else but please get some good money, it will always be st James to me no matter what it’s called .
I think this type of investment is inevitable under FFP restrictions if we want to achieve the things the owners are striving for. The memories of growing up watching my team in St James' Park will never be lost by the name changing, and if it enables me to see us lift a trophy then I will accept a sponsored stadium name. If you offered me Mike Ashley back for 50 years and playing at St James' Park or winning the title and potentially champions league at the Aramco Arena, the name of the stadium wont emotionally effect me. I just want to see my beloved team continue to grow the way they have this past year, creating the same loving memories with my boys as I had under King Kev and Sir Bobby, hopefully this time with some silverware!
Well put mate, i totally agree!
As long as they keep St James Park in the name it’s no different!
“Saudi Golf @ St James Park” is no problem at all. We get the sponsor money and it’s still referred to as St James park by all the fans. Happy middle ground👍
Perfectly fine with a name change tbh Aramco Arena @ St James Park has a nice sound to it
Definitely a big yes from me. Together with new main sponsor next season, we could be looking at 100-150 million extra to spend on transfers, every season.
They will do it subtly at St James Park, as they’ve seen the backlash from all the Sports Direct Arena branding. PIF have just invested $3billion in green bonds and I think they’ll go down that route at SJP with something like SJP powered by Saudi Green Initiative where they’ll put lots of money into how they’ll make it more green efficient (not just turning the lights off like Ashley). Then when they build a new training facility (and a new stadium in 10 years time) that will be named after the sponsor and again embrace all the eco stuff.
This seems pretty sensible. Outweighing any negative with a positive.
Agree entirely. I was about to write out a comment saying pretty much exactly what you've said, so I'm glad I read yours first.
Football stadiums will become global commercial arenas. The top teams will have commercial deals with NFL, entertainment (singers) and the latest stadiums will have the engineering to accommodate multiple projects and events. With that comes naming rights and huge commercial growth. It will also make teams worth billions.
If we want to be elite unfortunately the days of football stadiums will be dated and nufc will look eventually to build the latest stadium to make a commercial statement.
As fans we need to weigh up success and cups for traditional views on what a club is
Matty what time would you expect our team bus to arrive at Old Trafford on Sunday? I'm there but in the Corporate with work. Hoping to get there early.
Great channel, Top Guy, Best wish’s from a villa fan!
If we want to compete at the top of the Premier league and be in the champions league we have to sell as much as possible.. It will always be St James Park in our hearts but let's take the next step, look at arsenal now!!
Easiest work around is to keep the name St. James's Park and just put the sponsors logo at front and end of name. The main difference is we know these owners will re- invest in the club, unlike the fcb.
I think it's fine along as it says Saudi airways @ st James park.we all need remember since theses owners come in they've kept there promise and for us to be on the big stage with man United and real Madrid and that we need to take this leap of faith and trust what they doing is the right thing for our club. we need to meet them half way.
As long as we keep St James’s in the game I don’t have a problem. I would also be happy sponsor deals for naming rights for the stands with a similar deal. We should also look for sponsorship for the training ground like other teams do
Name it Aramco stadium of it means pays for the new training ground or a James Maddison. It’ll still be St James to the fans. The difference from Sports Direct Arena and this is that the money will be invested back into the club and any signage will be respectful and professional. Be warned, don’t hold the club back from owners who actually want NUFC competing with the best in Europe or you may lose Bruno to Madrid.
Yes from me, we have to go with the flow like other big clubs. Great video btw!! Cheers!👍
IF the name change makes it 'something at St James Park' or if it changes completely to 'Acme Corp Stadium' for example, it makes no difference as everyfan will still call the stadium St James Park, it'll only be the TV, Radio and written media that would call it by its new name.
Don't mind having a name change if it helps the club go forward and compete going forward if its something @st James Park the its nothing and if the whole name changes then at the end of the day it will always be St James Park to the fans
I'd be happy with a (sponsor name) @ St James Park, as long as the name doesn't completely change, if Mike did this with sports direct I'd have had no issue with it either (obviously as long as the money went into the club, which it clearly wouldn't have under Mike), it's a nice middle ground and can bring a lot of cash our way.
It could be saudia st. james park sounds nice mates, or anyways if the saudi pif changes the name of the stadium totally then who cares I mean they're the new owners and can do whatever they wish for of course only for the best of newcastle united, a perfect example is arsenal they went from the legendary highbury to building a new stadium and naming it emirates or man city naming theirs etihad airways so in European football everything is business and marketing now and the new sponsorships for the magpies are going to be massive for building new training ground,investing in the academy, maybe even building a new stadium with more capacity for the geordies, and of course signing top level elite players that will take the magpies to compete in UEFA champions league and maybe even winning one or two like Abramovich did with chelsea when he was owner,true newcastle fan as me and more fans all over the world will never forget the historical name of St. James Park but I think it's time for the black and white to move forward onto the bright future perspective with the Saudi pif group,amanda staveley and mehrdad ghodoussi,howay the lads⚫⚪🇸🇦😀🤑❤💙👏👍👌
What the owner need to do?
1: Meet the fans and have a proper discussion on the situation.
2: leave the name St James park in with the new sponsor.
3: Don’t pepper the stadium with a load of signs.
To us fans it will always be called St James park. and they won’t stop us from calling it St James park.
St James' Park powered by Aramco
We need to move with the times as long as its money coming in to help the club,team,ground,facilitys and area I dont mind we need big money coming in to be able to get big money players, I been going to SJP since the early 70s it will always be SJP to me whatever name is put on it.
I’d accept it if we kept ST James Park in the new name! Similar to Barca stadium name!
If we want the investment, move up the league and continue to grow its inevitable. At the end of the day they own the club and I trust them as they havent done us wrong at the minute. I'm a fan but they actually own the club, they are responsible for the money side of things and to be honest they should be able to do what they want, with the money they have pumped in and will continue to do so with further investment.
Rather not, but unfortunately it is a necessary evil to bring Mbappe to the toon.
Even if officially its not called St James's park the fans will still call it st James's park. So why not get around FFP and let them do it.
Very well said 👏 hope to see you at a game Matty
The sooner newcastle fans realize that for their team to be the best naming rights are part of it and you need to shelve your feelings about it in the interest of newcastle united getting to the top and we all know sjp will always be sjp no matter it's name is changed completely or not its all for the benefit of the city and the team in terms of the state of the art facilities you fans want
Depends how you pronounce it, say on match of the days they could go "Next we have Newcastle hosting Tottenham at Aramcos....St James Park" rolls off the tongue and doesn't sound too bad!
As long as it’s @ St James Park, I can’t see anyone having a genuine complaints.
Regardless of the name, is anyone going to call it anything other than St James' Park anyways?
We need to look at the bigger picture and take into account all angles! The way the club is projecting and going forward I’m 100% for! Is fans will always call it St James park, that’s a fact! But if we are wanting to bring in world class players and the infrastructure into the club, this is a must! Exciting times ahead!
If it improves the squad, then I have absolutely no problem with it. The issue I had with the previous attempt at changing the name, was it was never about improving the team, it was just free advertising for he who shall not be named.
Ashley’s adverts were pound-shop tacky and too many. I feel our new owners will get high-end sponsors and advertise with more class. I can also live with Aramco @ St James’ Park, or something similar, PIF@SJP.
i reckon this was always going to happen but hopefully these owners will see that we have already had very strong feelings towards the renaming of stadiums
Yeah, this is will be entirely different from the Sports Direct bullshit. I believe the majority of fans will be totally fine with this, we will still refer to it as St James Park.
Please don’t! There’s these iconic stadiums around the world, the Bernabeu, Camp Nou, San Siro etc in England we have 3 Old Trafford, Anfield and St. James park these owners haven’t done a thing wrong but I really hope they don’t change anything about our stadium other than maybe make it bigger if possible
IMO I don't have much of an issue with it. However I think the problem with Ashley is, he named it after a car boot sale. It sounded terrible. Keeping the St. James' Park name in it is preferable though.
Yeah I'm for it under the right circumstances, we all know Ashley only had his own interests at mind when he changed the name. Difference here is I genuinely think it will only be done in the future with the club's best interests at mind.
You have Arsenal, Man City, Bolton, Spurs (potentially) have all done it and got massive money for it. We are disadvantaged enough being based in a poor area we can't let a few sentiments stop us finally being able to compete
I think this is a test, Mehrdad called SJP the Cathedral the other day he knows what that name means and the Prince will probably have discussions with him aswell
They should partner up with a company and rename the training ground to what ever company buys into the club. Liverpool recently did it and didn't have to sell the Anfield name nor did Man Utd. The training ground exsisting or new one when they move should be named not SJP.
Ask Arsenal or Citeh fans if they're "bovvered"? No? Me neither!
Call it SAUDIAIR PARK and win the league? COUNT ME IN!
£100,000,000 per year would be very nice
Does it really matter if it's renamed?
Pretty sure all fans will still call and class it as St James's park.
If you want the club to compete with the best the money generated from naming rights would put us a hell of a lot closer !
It’s inevitable that it’s going to happen. St James’ Park powered by ……… suggests the sponsor is fuelling the success of the club, which of course it would be, so I think that’s the best way of setting it out. Selling the naming rights however, should be linked with reducing ticket pricing for fans aswell as generating money for players, that way everyone’s a winner.
This will be part one on the way to a new stadium being built in the near future and St. James will become history.
“Saudi James’ Park” 😂😂😂 I mean playing devil’s advocate, there is one major difference and that’s: Ashley wouldn’t reinvest the money and our new owners will. But, there’s no need to panic, they will run it by the fans first. No willy nilly decisions. We’ll see what happens and what they have in mind in terms of “partnership”. It’s a loaded and vague term. Let’s see what it’ll mean 😊
Different story now that we have owners who care about our club we know that a name change of St James Park would benefit the club massively with the money that it would generate unlike under Ashley who was only interested in one thing his back pocket.
If or when they move the stadium it won't be St James Park any more anyway so we need to start getting used to it now. I can't see them totally change the name any time soon but I believe it's coming so let's get used to it.
It’s still be st James park to me , but now the club is in different times and game is different . I don’t have problem , been enjoying the football since the takeover
pretty sure we dont even own st james park in the first place. why dont they buy it first?
If we want to compete with the best, we’re gonna have to get with the times and make sacrifices
St James's park is its name the only way around it from my point of view is if they built their own stadium then they can call it what ever they want.
I can't see the problem. So what if they change name. Every other high flying club's are doing it. It seems to me it's all take and no give. Argue against it let them Saudis walk away take other Bournemouth are summat and get some one like Mike Ashley back. Be careful what you wish for
Definitely not. Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham all left their original grounds so there is no comparison. Build us a new stadium and then name it want you want (or poll the fans). Don't rename St James's Park. Money isn't everything.
Genuine in their reason for this to comply with ffp and benefit the club as a whole. Unlike Ashley's thinly veiled attemp to sell naming right as an excuse to incorporate shit direct into stadium name.
Realistically I suppose for the sake of commerce add reluctantly support name change of some form. Saint James Park is synonymous with Newcastle united. However, should there be a construction of a new ground which is not likely to be either on the same site as present or in the centre of town, then that would not be called St James’s Park wherever it cited so a name change in the future is highly probable.
For my 50+ years of support of the Toon, St James Park and Newcastle United are almost interchangeable but in these days of commercial realism and FFP it’s a case of do we want to be more successful or do we want to stagnate?
I’d like to see some success before I kick the bucket.
#HTL
I wouldnt mind at all, it is inevitable that these things have to happen to take that next step I hated it with Ashley because I knew it wouldnt of changed a thing this will actually help
I'm not a Newcastle supporter myself , but I think it would be a shame if your stadium had to change its name . Should always be st James park
This is what happens if we wanna play with the big boys
At least the Saudis will pay for the naming and that will help with FFP . Cashley paid the toon nothing for all of his sports direct shit
We can rename the stadium now. We’d all still call it St James’. The problem with Ashley was it was free advertisement for his shite
ARAMCO STADIUM at St. James Park
Personally I only think the name of a stadium should be changed of the location of the stadium in the city changes plus St Jame's has been our stadium name so I'd prefer that to remain the case.
As long as they keep St James’s Park in it then no problem. Have to keep the heritage of the club somewhere though.
Maybe they could call it SAint James Park with the SA in the Saudi Airlines font
Were still Newcastle united if we play at st james Park or a trailer park winning team is way more important i trust our owners to build a winner 🏆
The amount of heart the owners have in the club, they would only do right by the club. I think if a name change brings us the cash and satisfies ffp rules where we can actually spend the cash, then go for it. Remember, nobody called it anything other than st James park even when it was sports house of direct Fraser stadium or whatever shite he tried to brand it. 🤣. The club is going places, and the only way to do that is to move with the times, let the owners do what they need to do so they can invest further in us. Everyone wins. SJP is in your soul, it’s not just the sign on a building.
It will always be St James’s Park regardless of what it’s changed too.
Personally I’m not too bothered, it’s a small price to pay for the amount of joy, success and enjoyment PIF will give us over the next few years.
Anything it’s changed too will include @ St James’s park anyways in my opinion. :)
To be honest I would prefer them to build a new ground and call it what they need to and get us the money we need
I think the problem when Ashley did it we new as fans the club wasn't going to benefit and it was a owner only benefit hence the sponsorship deal that was horrendous
I think fans won't mind the the name change aslong as the money is put into the club compared to fat Ashley getting advertisement for his stores and no money getting put into the club
St James' PIF Park 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wouldn't bother me because I know it will be invested into the club and it probably be short term
A bit late to comment..but what to do times are changing like never before.. the heart beat of nufc
Will always be saint james park
This is the time to grasp the nettle +
Put the pedal to the metal 😁😁😁😁😁 Hwtl+l
Can’t wait for rival fans that never mentioned anything about Mike Ashley when he changed it to sports direct arena to suddenly say we are selling out souls etc
Sorry to say but people need to think if we want sponsors and to grow we either need a new stadium or name ours
No name change. There are surely other ways to increase revenue. Nothing would signal money grabbing as renaming St James' Park. Similarly, acknowledging the importance of the traditional name would send the message that integrity and community identity matter.
Yea sell out best players other than that is commercial revenue and stadium rights is one of the biggest commercial revenues these days
Worth adding that I'd be more relaxed about a new name....if it was pinned to a new stadium.
But that's another debate.
Answer this would you give up the st James name to win the premier league? And that’s your answer
@@geordietoonforlife.1155 My concern is that we don't turn into the new Chelsea, where everyone hates us. The Keegan years managed to bridge tradition with growth, and success. I retain the hope that this regime does its talking on the pitch and secures steady progress rather than throwing money everywhere, whilst slapping a brand label on every available surface. I want our club to be respected, not loathed.
Old Trafford, Anfield, Stamford Bridge... identity. Some things should be untouched. I Don’t give a crap about the money for a sponsor - explore every other area yes and put up sponsors on the stands yes - but identity is non-negotiable for me. And for those saying it will always be known as SJP - 1) a company won’t pay money and not push for the ground to always be referred to as them 2) after a generation has been and gone, the name SJP will be gone with them
“We wanna win everything” I assure you, after trophies have been won, you only have identity left and if that’s eroded, it will feel hollow.
I love the name St James Park and if this is inevitable, personally I’d would rather not have St. James’s Park then whatever they want it to be, I think it makes it look and sound tacky I’d rather just have the one name.
Whatever the official sponsorship name, to me it will always be referred to as St James Park.
They can do what they want if they use the money to put back into the club
If the name gets completely changed then I would be extremely disappointed and quite frankly extremely angry as well. The history and name is too big to just sack off for some money and I mean it wouldn’t stop me from being a fan but it would certainly tick off a couple points for me on how much I like the ownership and sponsorship.
It's time to step out of the dark ages
I wouldn't like it as I love St James Park, but lets face it to win the league and champions league etc this will need to happen. We need money to do this and sponsorship is the best way of doing it, as a fan changing the name i would grumble about it but in the big picture I wouldn't my self make a fuss and soon come to accept it if the toon was challenging year in and out for titles.
they can call it, aladins cave if they want. show me the money 💰
Any decisions will be made through the community opinion aswell Amanda said this recently lets not paic
Genuinely couldn’t give a fuck about what sponsorship name the stadium has. It will always be St James Park to Newcastle fans
No matter what st James parks name is on paper. We’ll still call it st James. If it brings money in to help us prosper, they can call it whatever.
If they learned anything about Ashley the re-naming of St James Park was one of his biggest fuck ups and this will be the new regimes first big mistake. You make the ground name a brand in itself.
Absolutely no comparison like. Would have been far different if Ashley got a proper sponsor for the stadium and invested the revenue into the playing squad
As long as it ain't sports direct and to the people who actually matter it will always st James park
Change the stadium name...then why not change the traditional black and white strip, then why not move to a new stadium..does it have to be in Newcastle/Tyneside not really ...does it have to be called Newcastle United..not really. Where will it end ? Would you sell your soul for success...some might.
Howay the Toon Army...
New name to go with the new stadium we need, just saying.
As long as they keep Newcastle United in the name I will be happy. Why, because I have three tattoos with Newcastle United in them.
I could put up with the stadium being called something else but please get some good money, it will always be st James to me no matter what it’s called .
I think it’s disrespectful to rename it in my opinion
Darren eales is on bbc total sport tonight Matty
Better not ne renamed. Shocking
Y do I keep thinking worst