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Football financial expert Stefan Borson has hinted at Newcastle United replicating Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium approach.
Spurs relocated from White Hart Lane in 2017 while work began on their £1billion stadium. A lot of the venue had been built before the existing ground was demolished later that year.
However, Tottenham had the London luxury of being able to play at Wembley while the rest of the new stadium was built. That is a problem that the Magpies face, with no plausible alternative should they stay on the current site.
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Monetary guru Borson has tipped Newcastle to rebuild on their current location - but did not provide answers for where the Magpies would play temporarily. He told Football Insider: “From what I’ve seen, I think the plan would be to be like a Spurs-style situation. They have got a plot of land that is next to the stadium.
“So you do three sides of the build on one side of the stadium while the stadium is still active and then you flip round. But as we know, Spurs still had one year where they didn’t have anywhere to play. It’s hard to see what the solution would be for Newcastle.
“It’s something that will limit their progress on this I think. It’s very hard to know what the answer would be to that.”
Brad Miller, appointed the club’s Chief Operating Officer in the summer, promised a “once-in-a-generation investment” to solve Newcastle’s stadium dilemma. But many took his comments as a precursor to an eventual move from St James’ Park.