Eddie Howe has claimed Newcastle’s domestic rivals are refusing to help them since their Saudi-led takeover - and hiking transfer prices.
The Saudi owned club spent £115m in the summer transfer window, taking their outlay this year to more than £200m on eight players. But Howe failed to add any new faces on deadline day and the club has no players on loan despite making several bids and said: “We are against everyone else.”
Newcastle have believed they face a tax from selling clubs since the controversial takeover which means they have the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia providing funding. The club tried to counter this by publicly insisting they only had a limited budget this summer, but ended up spending double what was “expected”.
