As Alex Muzio talks about preparing to welcome Newcastle, and potentially greeting the chair of a state oil company that has a revenue of over £11bn a month, he’s marvelling at where Royale Union Saint-Gilloise were just seven years ago.
“When we arrived, the training facilities had no toilet,” the majority owner of the Belgian champions says. “It was literally just a field. The players would get in their car stinking. Now, we’re moving to our second new facilities.”
