Amanda Staveley has reiterated that Newcastle United are 'looking at' building a new training ground as work continues on making the current facility 'fit for purpose'.
Newcastle's owners have been assessing sites to construct a new state of the art training base, but the hierarchy were keen to ensure the club's current Benton facility was modernised in the meantime after recognising it fell 'significantly below the Premier League and perhaps even Championship standards'. Work has been ongoing on the site since last summer and Newcastle's recently released accounts revealed that the club had committed more than £2.7m to the project up to June last year.
A host of new features will be added to the extended main building, including hydrotherapy and plunge pools, new doctor and physio rooms and a modern players' lounge, while the group have been able to make use of a new dining room and expanded dressing rooms for some time now. This follows the investment into existing equipment with drones even purchased so that Eddie Howe and his staff could record and watch back training sessions following the Newcastle head coach's arrival in November, 2021.
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"We can do things that we couldn't do 10 years ago," Staveley said at MIPIM, the world's largest real estate conference. "We're looking at developing a new training ground at the moment.
"I remember when Eddie came and we had to put investment into our current training ground because it just wasn't fit for purpose. We were trying to put all the cameras around the outside. I was thinking, 'God, this is going to cost a fortune'. It was like £800,000 of investment just into the cameras. Then, suddenly, no, drones. We will do it all by drones."
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