Inside Newcastle’s plans for stunning new stadium near city centre as club eye ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity

NEWCASTLE are making plans for a stunning caller stadium adjacent the metropolis centre.

Toon are “seriously” eyeing the “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity, according to COO Brad Miller.

And it could spot Newcastle depart St James’ Park aft 132 years astatine the iconic arena.

Toon person been playing astatine their location stadium since 1892, with the 52,000-seater located astatine the bosom of town.

But with Newcastle striking occurrence connected the transportation pursuing their Saudi takeover successful 2021, plans are present successful the works to build a caller state-of-the-art stadium adjacent by.

COO Miller revealed astatine a instrumentality lawsuit connected Wednesday that the nine are nearing a determination aft investigating relocation options past year.

One enactment is for Newcastle to grow St James’ Park, which would beryllium a lengthy and costly operation.

But different could spot them determination to a caller stadium adjacent by, with Leazes Park nether consideration.

Miller admits the determination volition play a pivotal portion successful Newcastle’s future, describing it arsenic a “once successful a lifetime” rebuild.

And should it beryllium to beryllium the close one, Toon could soon beryllium rolling successful currency and trophies.

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He told fans: “It is simply a erstwhile successful a beingness opportunity. Do we put and alteration St James’ arsenic we spot it contiguous connected the tract wherever we are?

“Or bash we instrumentality that bold determination and deliberation astir moving? We privation to marque definite it’s a precise robust process.

“So careless of the outcome, I privation to basal up successful beforehand of everybody passim the process and say, ‘This is wherefore it is simply a logical decision, with semipermanent competitiveness successful mind’.

“Because arsenic you person heard a lot, it is each astir gross and PSR. We person to enactment hard to marque definite we springiness arsenic overmuch arsenic wealth to Paul Mitchell and the shot broadside successful bid to stay competitory connected the field.

“In presumption of the adjacent steps, we are coming towards the extremity of the adjacent stage, the briefing stage. There are batch of risks and opportunities astatine St James’ Park.

“We person to instrumentality clip to excavation into those and marque definite we’ve got the devil successful the item — successful presumption of the programme, however agelong it volition instrumentality and what it volition bash for america successful presumption of revenue.

“We person besides taken the accidental to look astatine what a caller stadium volition look like. It’s not comparing apples with apples, they are not similar for like. It’s comparing apples with pears.

“The superb happening astir St James’ is it is successful an iconic location, the ambiance and competitory borderline it gives the squad connected the pitch, and it has 52,000 seats already.

“But a caller stadium doesn’t person that and we’d person to wage for each those seats again. A caller stadium has the imaginable to gain a batch more, some connected matchdays and non-matchdays, a spot similar STACK (fan zone).

“It is giving america an denotation we tin really lend adjacent much to the shot nine and shot broadside if we had a caller stadium.”