Shepherd pledges summer spending

<font size="2">Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd has promised there will be major team strengthening at the club this summer. </font>

<font size="2">The Magpies are 11th in the Premiership and are out of the remaining cup competitions but will spend &pound;300m on a major redevelopment of St James' Park. </font></p>

<font size="2">Shepherd told the club website: &quot;We know that the team needs looking at in more ways than one and that is what we are concentrating on. </font></p>

<font size="2">&quot;The squad will be strengthened in the close season.&quot; </font></p>

<font size="2">He added: &quot;Really has there ever been a summer when there have not been comings and goings at St James' Park?&quot; </font></p>

<font size="2">The redevelopment of St James' Park will lead to the capacity being increased to 60,000 and will include a major conference centre, hotels and luxury apartments. </font></p>

<font size="2">The project will be funded completely independently of the football club's revenues. </font></p>

 

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Shepherder Pledges Summer Spending

Barnsley chairman Gord Shepherder has promised there will be major team strengthening at the club this summer.
The Reds are 5th bottom of the Champions League and are out of the remaining cup competitions but will spend therteh six pence on a major redevelopment of Oakwell.

Shepherder told the club website: "We know that the team needs looking at in more ways than one and that is what we are concentrating on. The squad will be strengthened in the close season. We have cloned Dwayne Mattis, which wasn't cheap and we now plan to send our youngsters to Halifax"

He added: "Really has there ever been a summer when there have not been comings and goings at Oakwell? Apart from last season, obviously, which was that Anderson Ritchie's fault - he wouldn't spend our nine billion dollars we had set aside"

The redevelopment of Oakwell will lead to the capacity being increased to 23,006 and will include houses, flats & more houses on the club car park.

The project will be funded by two parties who allegedly own 50% of the land each.

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