Is this why the Newcastle United owners are in talks to buy KV Oostende? nufc
Living in Belgium, I took particular interest in the news that the Newcastle United owners are in talks to buy KV Oostende.
Jupiler Pro League table toppers RSC Genk boast an average attendance of 16,800 and Tony Bloom’s other football club Union Saint Gilloise, who are hot on their heels with five games remaining, have a paltry average of 6,200 backsides on seats. Union are based in Brussels, so it’s not as if we are talking about a provincial club. Ok, they have in more recent times been the poor relation of Anderlecht but they themselves only pull in an average of between 18,000 and 19,000 paying punters.
When my colleagues heard about the proposed take over of KV Oostende by the NUFC owners, there were all the predictable comments “must have heard about the sand dunes…” My thoughts were however, why KVO? Relegation is now a certainty for KVO. Life in the Challenger Pro League will be interesting, where half of the clubs are U23 teams of the ‘bigger’ clubs.
The standard of football in the Jupiler Pro League is probably comparable with the Championship in the UK but with a few clubs being a cut above the rest quality wise. So I have to ask myself, what exactly the advantage is of buying a newly relegated club to offer League One level football to NUFC loanees.
Regional Clubs such as Club Brugge, KAA Gent and Royal Antwerp where they draw their support from a much larger geographical area and clubs like RSC Anderlecht who have an almost national appeal.In the long term it may be possible to reposition KVO so that they become a regional based club; but football allegiances are not things that people switch easily.
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