Newcastle's life-changing match

Newcastle (left) thrives with world- class stars like Isak - Photo: REUTERS

With 66 points and a goal difference of +23, Newcastle is almost certain to be in the top 5 if they beat Arsenal tonight.

The Future of Newcastle

This victory will even bring the Magpies to 2nd place on the rankings. At that time, they are 3 points ahead of the 5th ranked team, Aston Villa, and are far ahead in goal difference. The ticket to the Champions League next season is considered to be in the pocket of coach Eddie Howe and his team.

In the past, the minimum bonus for an English team participating in the Champions League was around 30 million euros. If they won the championship, they could earn around 100 million euros. But with the strong reform of the European Football Union (UEFA) from this season, the maximum bonus mentioned above could increase to around 150 million euros (in case of winning the championship), and the minimum is around 50 million euros.

In fact, all Premier League representatives this season pocketed more than 70 million euros in prize money each. For example, Man City, despite being eliminated in the play-off round, still received 76 million euros. Liverpool, despite being eliminated in the round of 16, still received more than 90 million euros in prize money.

That's purely UEFA's prize money. In reality, teams that participate in the Champions League can earn double that amount, with revenue from ticket sales, advertising activities... That's to say, Newcastle is desperate for a ticket to the Champions League.

The owner of the "Magpies" - the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) is considered the richest in football, with total assets of up to hundreds of billions of euros. But the financial fair play law does not allow them to pump too much money into the team. At the same time, Newcastle needs large amounts of money on paper to legally exist.

It will be better the second time

Football in the 2020s is not like the 2000s, when Chelsea were free to buy players and were not afraid of any constraints.

Newcastle, on the other hand, have spent nearly half a billion euros on transfers in the first three seasons, and PIF owners have been forced to offload key players to balance their finances in the past year. In the last two transfer windows, Newcastle have had to offload Almiron and Anderson. The former has been a mainstay of the team for many years. The latter is a young star with great potential.

Recently, there has been a lot of information that Newcastle must sell at least one star from the group of pillars Martinez, Isak, Guimares or Tonali to continue to make the books beautiful. This information is based on the fact that Newcastle did not win a ticket to the Champions League. On the contrary, the ticket to the European arena brings them a revenue of about 100 million euros, which means Newcastle does not have to sell any more pillars.

The Magpies actually qualified for the Champions League two years ago. But in their first return to the continent's top competition, coach Eddie Howe and his team were quite inexperienced. The result was a disappointing season last year. Newcastle certainly learned a lot from their second attempt.

The Premier League runner-up position is within Newcastle's reach, a very special milestone for this young "giant". It is time to recognize Newcastle as one of the strongest teams in the Premier League, instead of names with only the past like Man United or Tottenham.

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HUY DANG

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