Huge Spanish outlet gets it all wrong about NUFC in new piece suggesting 'euphoria has faded'

There always has been a disconnect between those who follow Newcastle United out of sheer passion and those who follow it as part of their job. It's hard to be objective when it's your club, sure, but you also see more of what's going on that perhaps those with an outside view do.

That may not be the case when it comes to the inner workings of the club as journalists are likely to have more contacts to call upon for inside info, but when it comes to the fans, how they feel, how they see things, an outsider can never get a good handle on that unless they're living it too.

'We don't demand a team that wins, we demand a team that tries' is the motto that Newcastle fans often use and that still rings true for the majority. There are those who have garnered a strange sense of entitlement following one good season, but in the main, the sentiment remains the same. However, the media will have you believe that every fan has that level of entitlement and delusion when in fact, the majority of us know that the takeover was never going to be an overnight fix.

If journalists in the UK get it so wrong, then imagine just far out of whack the journalists in Spain must be.

Getty Images

Spanish media outlet seems to have missed the point

Mundo Deportivo (via Sport Witness) have published an article with the headline 'Rich people who cry' claiming that the euphoria of the takeover has worn off and that Newcastle fans are losing patience.

Of course the euphoria has worn off - it was three years ago. All highs have a comedown, but just because we aren't still dancing in the streets doesn't mean that we've become disillusioned.

The performances and the results so far this season haven't exactly been anything to get excited about, and yet we continue to sell out St James' Park with people begging for tickets online. The away end at every ground is packed out whenever Newcastle play away from home. The passion is still there.

Let's ignore PSR while mentioning PSR

Perhaps the part where Mundo Deportivo have got things the most wrong is with what they said about the PIF's lack of funding.

"The Arab investors have not put up the promised money to continue growing. There is a reason that justifies it: losses of 170 million, which even threatened this summer with the forced sale of some of the team’s stars to comply with the Premier League’s PSR sustainability standards. That was avoided."

How can you completely ignore the fact that the PIF haven't pumped money into the club because PSR forbids them to in a sentence that even references PSR? It's baffling.

We are sorry for not celebrating in the streets every night

There are a few areas where the PIF are lagging behind, namely training ground/kit sponsors and a potential stadium sponsor, but recent events with Manchester City and the Premier League's tribunal over Associated Party Transactions strongly suggests that the PIF have been biding their time knowing that something like this was coming down the line.

They weren't likely to jump into a sponsorship deal knowing that the rules could change which means they could have got umpteen times more.

So yeah, the excitement has faded as that which was new is now the norm, and yes the new owners haven't pumped in as much money as the media expected, but that's down to regulations more than them not being interested.