PIF have made a big change to Newcastle United’s academy since taking over

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Newcastle United’s owners have made some big changes to the academy since taking over the club back in 2021.

Since their arrival, PIF have placed a huge emphasis on developing young talent through the academy and promoting them into the first team, a lot like Man City have been able to do.

In a report from the i, they explain what sort of changes they have made to the academy since coming in and how it will impact the club for the better in the long term.

Newcastle make major improvements to the academy

Under Mike Ashley the academy may as well have not been a part of the club it was so neglected, very rarely would a play dome through to the first-team with Sean Longstaff very much an anomaly.

It’s common knowledge that even the first-team training ground had received very little investment in the last two decades, so you can only imagine what the state of Newcastle’s academy was in.

However, Amanda Staveley and co understand the importance of having a strong academy if you want to be successful and from day one have made big changes like increasing the staff by 50% and increasing the budget for scouting and recruiting.

Newcastle, for the first time, now have a full-time nutritionist and psychologist with more coaches, analysts and sports scientists to maximise the potential of the young players coming through.

Newcastle have already added top young talents

Not only is it important for Newcastle to bring through the best local players like Lewis Miley, they also want to assert themselves as attracting the best talent from around the world.

Their mission has only just started and yet we’ve already seen the likes of Yankuba Minteh and Garang Kuol join the club from Belgium and Australia respectively.

While the pair still have a long way to go in their development, there are promising signs in both players who are still under the age of 20 and will be hoping to take another step towards being a first-team player next year.

Further down the ranks of the academy Newcastle have also been bringing in some very young talents like Leo Shahar and Cathal Heffernan in the last 12 months, who both have bags of potential.