INTERVIEW | Newcastle United CEO Darren Eales 

One of the best things about this ownership is that they do interviews and do fan events, well done Darren onwards & upwards for the toon. 👏

I just love the fact that not only is it all transparent, but he talks complete and clear sense. Love it

I love the transparency miles away from the old owner. The future is bright HWTL ⚫️⚪️

No clubs really do this sort of engagement we need to give them credit for listening and engaging with supporters, thank you🙌🏻 HWTL

Isn't it great that we now have a management team who are really interested in the club and the loyal fans Once a Newcastle supporters always a Newcastle supporter God bless them all

Very good interview, and reminded me that the club hasn't yet got back control of its retail capabilities thanks to MA! All heading in a very good direction. I always try to remind myself of this if I'm ever unhappy with a recent result, the club is being rebuilt, and then built higher brick by brick over many seasons.

Great news, well done Darren and all those behind the scenes at NUFC ⚫⚪

Our club has already transformed so much, we’re so much more classy and professional, still can’t believe it.

Frank factual and in depth, show me another Club that does this, I'll wait!!!! This man's a financial and marketing genius 👏🏽

Darren is doing a good job. The club seems in good hands. There is no rush for success, let us build the right way.

Well done to all involved. The futures bright..the futures Black and white. HWTL

Thank you Darren for this interview…thank you NUFC for the positive future we all dream of and thank you for the memories so far the club had given us…HWTL 🖤🤍🖤🤍…United as one 🫶🏻….

Darren you beautiful beautiful man, exciting growth ahead!

Nice to see darren come out and explain whats going on regarding the club financially... Fat mike and his gophers are a million miles away from these experts... Well done darren

Love that we hear from many different people from the club, different departments etc. Great to hear the updates and the direction we are heading!

Love this clear, consice narrative from the owners/board ❤

We are lucky to have Darren, communication is spot on and he knows his stuff. As supporters we need to keep our eyes on the big picture… there will be players that leave and that the club doesn’t want to leave… but over time we will be in a position to retain the best & buy the best. Same with stadium, things will have to change one way or another. However, the key is it’s only being done to reinvest in the team!

Love the communication from the club now. A lot more transparency. With most decisions even when i disagree, theres more trust in the ppl running the club that those decision will be in the best interests of the club. Things that should be looked at is the decisions that affect the match day atmosphere like big packages for tourists etc. The atmosphere can be better at times and things like that aren’t going to help it. Feel Connected more now with NUFC than i have in a long time though.

He speaks so bloody well!! Come on Dazza

Howay the lads. This guy is great.

best explanation of ffp (in relation to us) that i’ve heard 👏🏻

This is a terrific example of great communication. Congratulations and credit to Darren and the ownership team.

Fantastic content. The level of transparency that this leadership group aspires to is, frankly, outstanding. After years of Money Mike and Penfold saying very little, and lying through their back teeth when they did, this is just brilliant. I want Darren Eales to be our CEO forever, please?

He is explaining amortisation as a reason for moving Bruno on in the summer.

Some things in here that fans probably won’t like to hear, but what a difference it is to have communication and honesty coming from the club instead of silence!

This is how you do ownership and leadership

so going off the new deals with sela and adidas and the fact that the club will get money from all merchandise going forward the club revenue come the summer be nearer 300m+ which is going in the right direction

Well rounded and straight explanation of how they are approaching the future, compared to the lies and deceit from Ashley era, slowly building is exactly how it should be done, and we are way ahead of schedule. Howay

This open dialogue (and interviews) between owners and fans is something Mike Ashley couldn’t get his fat head around..? And I’m not just having a dig at Ashley here, because many owners should follow suit, as these type of interviews makes us feel more connected to the club. ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️

Howay the lads!

Trading players - It's necessary but when it's time for some of our best talent to move on, its going to hurt.

Come on lad!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

We got Trippier, Bruno & Gordon in the January window

Brilliant content. Still feels surreal to have such clear, educated leadership

Profits will be even better next year with the CL money, and to think some fans did not want it. So important for the growth of the club.

Not many businesses out there can boast back to back 40% growth in revenue, as they said when they turned up its a marathon not a sprint and they will get there eventually.

Loved listening to you.only 2 points,1 we signed Gordon in the January window.2....I forgot, cause I had a bottle of wine.

Next season.. back to Adidas😍🙌

This is how you communicate as a CEO

Honest and transparent 👍

Good news but the fact is that FFP is making it hard for clubs like ours to challenge the usual top 6 - FSR will make it even harder.

This is great Ashley never did anything like this

These people are not stupid.

The insane contrast NUFC ownership in 2024 after not signing anyone for 11 days: “We can explain with transparency and depth” NUFC under Mike Ashley: “We are happy to announce a striker on loan… to replace Demba Ba who we sold for peanuts lmao sorry”

The best teams in the world sell their players to freshen the team up and bring in new faces. Man City sold Jesus and Zincheko recently who were both brilliant for them. Bayern sell players ALOT, Spurs just sold Kane, Chelsea sell players, Barcelona do, etc etc it’s all part of football. Mike Ashley used to use the money from player sales to fund sports direct and high street shops, he never used to use the money to make the team better, that’s the difference.

Also Amanda and Co have our clubs best interests at heart

I hope they don't let Botman, Bruno or Isak go (The Spine of the Team). You got to build from somewhere. I remember when we sold Andy Cole and things went downhill from there.

Tbh I see the logic in selling Bruno IF we invest on the same level West Ham did. Baring in mind we signed him for £40m if we sold him for £80m-£100m we’ve made great profit and have room to sign 2 players (with Tonali coming back too)

It can only be good for the long term future of the club big thumbs up . Howay the lads .

Training ground and training kit sponsorship incoming soon? SJP co-naming rights?

As the great man called them - crown jewels- Isak & Bruno are my current day crown jewels with big Joe not far behind. I understand we have to balance the books, but we never sell our crown jewels, imho.

There will be queues for miles when the Adidas kits launch again

I think it's absolutley 100% clear from this that Eddie Howe isnt going anywhere.

Setting up the landscape to sell Bruno

Can we get Darren a bigger office?

What depth Darren? We literally played the same team with no subs for about 7-8 matches.

We all know what the people that are now at our club are capable of, baffles me that people still don’t understand how it is slowly improving. Rome wasn’t built in a day

There are too many clubs in Europe (as well as in the Prem ) who can at this moment in time remain ahead of us by continuing to spend millions on top class players despite eye watering debt not being reduced. When will the likes of Sky mention that each time they broadcast instead of mentioning us and oil money in the same breath when they know full well that we are not allowed to spend despite the fact that unlike most clubs we could pay off any debt in the blink of an eye.

Basically saying we are going to be selling in the summer and it's not rocket science it's going to be Bruno.

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Great that profits are helping the club how about recognising travelling away fans need investment too the club wants great support tickets and transport need to be given priority fans that love their club can’t be used as cash cows

Love wor Dazza 🥰🖤🤍🖤🤍

newcastle is the best football team like if its true

Our 40% revenue increase definitely isn’t going in to a new office for him is it

Just another 'fantastic transparency' comment

You don’t mind selling our top players now that you know the money will be reinvested into the playing squad and infrastructure.

Great news that Leazes Terrace is being knocked down and relocated elsewhere

Stadium rights will smesh all records and watch us fly.

Spend some money!

I suspect there’s an ulterior motive behind this interview, I don’t think Darren is that naive to have not considered that the media would have taken snippets of this and run wild with misconstruing what was said and the potential for disruption that could bring

Selling your best players to league rivals that have dobr everything they could to change the rules to hold you back will look like a surrender. If we cannot afford to buy thats fair enough, but at least keep your best players and buy in the next window. If isak, botman or bruno (for price under is release clause) goes this window after the shambles of results we have had in the league then fans will voice concerns. Solanke just has to be a bad joke.

Quick but probably daft idea. Here goes. What if NUFC put a corporate suite catering for 25 ish up for sale for £100m and then PIF bought it off them? Raffle it off for every home game @ £500 a pop.... Instant £100m plus revenue from the raffle. Sure that would keep the ''new'' supporters happy and help with the funding.....

Reading between the lines we are going to lose a big player? Hope am wrong

So who we selling then?

I have a feeling Bruno’s gonna be off next year if not then he will be in 2025 😢😢😢

Basically NUFC are skint.

buckle up. someone is getting sold

So in other words. We sell Bruno for 100m.

I think its safe to say Bruno will probably get sold for a profit

If u want to create revenue sign Cris Ronaldo!!

hahahahaha Saudi FC finding out that they cant spend their way out of everything is hilarious

Basically the rules are nonsense.

Even i have a better printer than that one.

Bruno is gone in the summer 😔

Stupid. Knew it would create drama in the press and alert but clubs to lure players away and it didn’t work because the return wasn’t enough. Absolutely stupid!! Awful interview. And don’t care who disagrees and if fans needed to know the stance or not, that almost caused chaos mid way through season.

Instead of selling the stars, Isak, Bruno, Longstaff, it's better to sell the many useless pieces, like Hall, Gordon, Miley, Barnes, Tonali, Emil Kraft, Javier Manquilo, Isaac Hayden, Matt Ritchy, Livramento, etc. They haven't contributed much, Darren Eales has a brain, use it, don't put it on your butt. Bring in Minteh, Solenka, Mitrovic, also several cheap but good Sunderland players

Justice for Jamal Khashoggi 😔💔

40% in 2 seasons is ridiculous 🖤🤍

If a player is ready to move on so we can get a max cash in, that’s business…..problem is replacing them!

Think that's sounds like bruno will be away in the summer as we already have his replacement (Tonali). If we get 100 million for him I would go and get Tony from Brentford and Phillips from City..

The new ownership continuously highlights how utterly crap Ashley was in every aspect