Newcastle United's stunning £200m plans as £32m move completed after Eddie Howe input
One of Newcastle United’s Premier League rivals have moved into their new training ground.
AFC Bournemouth have moved into their new state-of-the-art training centre which Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe had a major say in.
Howe is one of the most important figures in the Cherries’ 126-year history, firstly keeping them in the Football League before rising to the Premier League. But it wasn’t just on the pitch where Howe played a significant role, having been across their plans for a new training ground.
Plans for a new training facility at the former Canford Magna Golf Club site were approved in 2019, a year before Howe departed. Work paused under former owner Maxim Demin but resumed when Bill Foley took over and the club returned to the Premier League in 2022.
Three years on and the South Coast club have this week moved into their new first-class home.
Costing a reported £32million to build, the new facility is made up of 16 pitches, an indoor artificial playing surface, state-of-the-art medical, fitness, sports science and rehabilitation facilities, administrative space and a press conference theatre.
Newcastle United have their own plans for a new training ground
As revealed by NewcastleWorld in January, Newcastle United have set a budget of £200m to build their state-of-the-art, Premier League-leading new training complex.
The £200m budget would dwarf that of other, similar Premier League projects with Leicester City’s £100m complex being completed in 2020. It does, however, fall short of the £240m training complex unveiled by Paris Saint-Germain, Campus PSG.
Plans have already been drawn for the training ground, and the work is now being costed.
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Howe, though, revealed earlier this year he has not been involved in the design of the training ground, unlike his hands-on approach at Bournemouth.
“I don't think I will be (involved), that will be for other people to design,” Howe said. “You have to remember the history of Bournemouth, I was all over everything! I don't mean that as a negative, there just wasn't the infrastructure that there is here. We had gone from League Two to the Premier League.
“This is a very different club and with decisions around the training ground and stadium, I will be very much in the background, hearing what is happening from the experts involved and, hopefully, looking on in awe at what we're going to do.”
Newcastle’s Saudi Arabian owners spent around £10m revamping the club’s current training base in Benton but know a new site is required in order to take the club to the next level.
NewcastleWorld has information that a North Tyneside site has been heavily surveyed, said to be ‘on the edges of Killingworth’, while other publications have speculated at a Newcastle Racecourse site - which would tally with our info - or one further out towards Newcastle Airport.