Newcastle United are currently undergoing substantial renovations at their Benton base, but the club’s owners intend to develop a new training facility in the long run.
Newcastle United is ‘looking at’ creating a new training ground, according to Amanda Staveley, as work on making the current facility ‘fit for purpose’ continues.
Newcastle’s owners have been scouting locations for a new cutting-edge training facility, but the club’s hierarchy was keen to ensure the club’s current Benton facility was modernized in the meantime after recognizing it fell “significantly below Premier League and possibly even Championship standards.” Work on the property has been proceeding since last summer, and Newcastle’s recently released records indicated that the club has committed more than £2.7 million.
Amanda Staveley reveals Newcastle Utd plan to set up a new training ground worth £800,000
A number of additional amenities, including hydrotherapy and plunge pools, new doctor and physio facilities, and a modern players’ lounge, will be added to the expanded main building, while the team has been using a new dining room and larger dressing rooms for some time already. This follows an investment in current equipment, including the purchase of drones so that Eddie Howe and his crew may record and replay training sessions until the arrival of the Newcastle head coach in November 2021.
“We can do things we couldn’t do ten years ago,” said Staveley at MIPIM, the world’s largest real estate conference. “Right now, we’re looking into developing a new training facility.”
“I remember when Eddie came and we had to put investment into our current training ground because it just wasn’t fit for purpose. We were trying to put all the cameras around the outside. I was thinking, ‘God, this is going to cost a fortune’. It was like £800,000 of investment just into the cameras. Then, suddenly, no, drones. We will do it all by drones.”
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