When Newcastle United finally got their wish in October 2021 and owner Mike Ashley sold the club to the Saudi-Backed Ownership Group (PIF) for over 415 million dollars, the Premier League clubs were in shock. ‘Old dinosaurs’ like both Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal were furious when a blocked deal was suddenly unblocked by the Premier League and they found themselves behind Magpies as the richest clubs in the world. Only City were neutral, as they didn’t want to be such hypocrites, since they are also rich Arabs with ‘dirty money’.🚨 Clubs with the biggest NET spend this summer:-€227M 💰 Chelsea 🏴-€226M 💰 Man Utd 🏴-€164M 💰 West Ham 🏴-€155M 💰 Nottm Forest 🏴-€136M 💰 Newcastle 🏴-€131M 💰 Tottenham 🏴-€115M 💰 Barcelona 🇪🇸-€108M 💰 Arsenal 🏴— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) September 2, 2022 All of a sudden, an informal movement called „Anyone but Newcastle“ appeared in the media, with the idea of blocking the Magpies in the transfer window, not allowing them to buy players. Premier League clubs organized the meeting without Newcastle and were furious why was the deal approved by the league and asked CEO Richard Masters for answers.„Newcastle will find it hard to buy players from some Premier League clubs in January because they would rather see them relegated than take their cash. Some clubs just won’t sell to them” said once source to The Telegraph back in November 2021.Premier League clubs determined to boycott Newcastle during the transfer windowBoy, were their right. Not only did it happen in January, but continued in June too. In both transfer windows, in which the new owners were already there, Newcastle united bought 8 players in total, and only two are from the Premier League! The only clubs from the Premier League who wanted to deal with the Magpies were Aston Villa (Matt Target) and Brighton (Dan Burn). And coach Eddie Howe was lucky to get those deals in the first place, as both clubs were stacked at those positions and those players were not see as stars anyway.Eddie Howe on Crystal Palace:”They’ve had a tough fixture list themselves, as we have. They’ve managed themselves well in those tough encounters. I expect St. James’ Park to be rocking again – I certainly want to see a positive reaction from my team.” pic.twitter.com/ZrfzRbDIQf— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) September 2, 2022 Burnley is also an example, even thou Newcastle bought two players from them. While they got keeper Nick Pope after Burnley were relegated from the Premier League, Chris Wood was signed in January, while The Clarets were still in the top flight but….the Magpies new about his release clause and paid it, so Burnley couldn’t do anything about it. Kieran Trippier is also British, but he came from abroad, from Atletico Madrid.Why is the richest club in the world below Forest and Leeds in spending?And during the pre-match conference ahead of the Crystal Palace match, coach Eddie Howe was clear in his assessment of the recently finished transfer window.“We certainly found there’s no one there ready to do us a favour. The narrative regarding us has changed. If there’s anything, domestically, teams will put their price up if it’s Newcastle. That’s something we’re having to deal with and that’s why we walked away from a few deals because it’s important that we’re not seen as that club that will pay what’s asked. It has to be fair” said Howe to the reporters.Turns out Newcastle aren’t very good at time wasting after all. Ball was in play nearly an hour – the 9th best time in the 49 PL games played so far. pic.twitter.com/1kKtPcaunG— Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) September 1, 2022 And if you remember, even the under the middle Premier League clubs like Leeds or Leicester not only refused offers from Newcastle, but rather mocked them. Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers quipped 40 million pounds bid ‘might just cover three-quarters’ of James Maddison’s left leg while, similarly, Leeds CEO Angus Kinnear said one offer the club received for Jack Harrison would only be enough for his right leg.Carvalho gives Reds an undeserved victory in injury timeStill, the Magpies made some great signings from abroad, and one of them, Alexander Isak scored on his debut against Liverpool, but in the end, Newcastle were victims of referees decision to extend the game for 8 minutes even thou he proclaimed to be only 5 minutes. Liverpool managed to score the winning goal in the last second, but Howe wants to canalize that anger into today’s game.“I would say we couldn’t be more together at the moment. There is a real feeling of us internally knowing we are against everybody else. That is healthy and I would embrace that. I think the Anfield experience at the end there will hopefully get the crowd into the game from minute one, and certainly I want to see a positive reaction from my team from what happened”.ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 6Saturday14.30: (8.00) Everton (4.70) Liverpool (1.48)17.00: (2.30) Brentford (3.50) Leeds (3.35)17.00: (2.14) Newcastle (3.50) Crystal Palace (3.80)17.00: (2.14) Nott.Forest (3.50) Bournemouth (3.80)17.00: (1.53) Tottenham (4.50) Fulham (7.25)17.00: (2.40) Wolverhampton (3.25) Southampton (3.40)17.00: (1.58) Chelsea (4.30) West Ham (6.75)19.30: (8.00) Aston Villa (5.30) Man.City (1.43)Sunday 16.00: (1.96) Brighton (3.50) Leicester (4.50)18.30: (2.70) Man.Utd. (3.35) Arsenal (2.80)***odds are subject to change