Newcastle United Get Biggest Transfer Budget On Football Manager 2022 Following Takeover

Newcastle United are likely to be an extremely popular choice on Football Manager 2022 after developers at Sports Interactive gave the Premier League side a hefty transfer budget of £200 million.

It was confirmed earlier this month that Mike Ashley's controversial 14-year reign was over. After years of speculation surrounding a move, The Saudi Arabia Investment Fund's (PIF) finally completed their long-awaited £305 million takeover of The Magpies.

Steve Bruce has since been relieved of his managerial duties and ahead of the January transfer window, a hoard of players have been linked with big-money moves to St James Park, including 'top target' Luis Diaz, who has a release clause of £67.5 million.

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Despite reports emerging that Newcastle's transfer budget in real life will be considerably lower than expected, the club have been given a monstrous £200 million kitty at the start of FM22's beta, as well as a wage budget of just over £2 million.

In addition to their transfer and wage budgets, developers have handed United an overall balance of £258 million.

In fact, soon after starting a save with the Premier League club, managers are told they will have a minimum guaranteed transfer budget of £100 million going into the 2022/23 campaign.

As you can imagine, plenty of people on social media are gearing up for a summer spending spree.

In terms of real life transfers in the North East, British businesswoman Amanda Staveley, who led the Saudi consortium during takeover talks, has already talked about the possibility of strengthening the current squad, who have struggled on the pitch of late.

"We've got a great squad," the 48-year-old told Sky Sports. "I had a great chat with Jamaal [Lascelles] tonight as captain. We're really excited about strengthening the squad, but we have to work within Financial Fair Play and make sure this is done over a longer term.

"But you can know and be reassured that we want to invest at every level. We want to get the best squad we possibly can. Everybody talks about it [big signings] but what you need is a team that works well together. That's also just as important."

Who would you sign if you had a £200 million transfer budget?

Let us know in the comments.

Topics: GAMING, Football Manager, Premier League, FM, Newcastle United

Jack Kenmare

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