It should be the ideal time to invest what is in effect a £20m+ boost to your income, and it seems like most other clubs agree. Where is the benefit of taking £29m (think about that figure!) out of the club if you want them to self-finance?

I don’t know if you have ever tried to take out an interest-free loan. You would find that, unless you have a very amenable Dad, interest-free loans don’t exist. However, an unusual area of business where interest-free loans do exist, rather oddly, is in the financing of football clubs.

Even more shocking is that these figures don’t take into account the summer signings of Fletcher (£12m), Johnson (£10m) and the January incomings; Graham (£5m) and N’Diaye (£4.5m)!

Newcastle United haven’t quite made it into the Deloitte Football Money League Top 20 but moving up to 25th (99m Euros) in the World shows they are certainly heading in the right direction.