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NUFC need to spend £60m next season, says rival boss
Mar 31 2010
Billy Davies graciously admitted Newcastle United deserve their promotion – but the Nottingham Forest boss had a warning for the club that virtually ended his side’s automatic promotion hopes. Mark Douglas reports
BILLY Davies believes Newcastle United will need a transfer war-chest of £60m to fulfil their Premier League potential next season.
Defeated but unbowed after an engaging tussle on Monday, the Nottingham Forest manager spoke from grisly experience when he tackled the question that Chris Hughton steadfastly refuses to countenance until his side are signed and sealed in the top flight.
Understandably, the Newcastle boss will have none of it until promotion is mathematically assured, until every box is ticked and every possible pratfall negotiated.
Sure, there was a lusty primal scream after both of United’s classy goals on Monday, but Hughton stuck to the tried and tested formula that has served his side so well this season.
The Newcastle boss has made life in black-and-white a glorious shade of beige this term; his collected, measured and diplomatic response to even the most acute crisis taking the steam out of the St James’ Park pressure cooker.
So it was no surprise when he applied his trusty straight bat to any queries relating to the mammoth Premier League challenge that awaits his United side.
Luckily, after graciously accepting defeat in his side’s chase of the Championship’s runaway leaders, Forest boss Davies was only too happy to expand on the challenge awaiting Hughton’s United.
At a conservative estimate, Davies believes it will take £40m of spending on players in the summer to help smooth the transition to the Championship – a sum that will be eye-watering to the parsimonious Mike Ashley. Davies advocates a further £20m spend in January.
The temptation will be to dismiss Davies’ words as those of a manager defeated in the battle to ascend to English football’s top table.
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