While those inside the morning room with Matfen Hall oak panel glass.
Given the sensitivity of what was presenting on the screens in the suite of the ground floor conference, he felt as a supervision of the administration of this five -star hotel.
Also consider the presence of Yasir the Rumayyan, the governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, who last week maintained a company with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I was sitting near Eddie Howe this time.
Perhaps it was, then, that the window cleaners and the gardener, who tended to immaculate the Céspedes, had headphones and guns.
Because here, 18 miles from the spiritual home of the football club, the current custodians were making decisions that would shape their soul for tomorrow's generation. This was the maximum brass, the upper level, Top Secret.
I went through the couple with their cubes and brushes and the guy who combed the grass, perhaps they were not special agents after all, and at the Gothic entrance of the field mansion, with their glass windows, wooden ladder and large piano . He felt as if the music stopped when a couple of Newcastle's hierarchy noticed my assistance.
Matfen Hall, where the great summit took place with several key figures
The award -winning hotel and luxury space in Northumberland opened currently in 1832
The neo-Gothic mansion has a restaurant, spa and golf course on its land and is on the list of degrees II
The summit had just broken lunch. Howe said goodbye before crossing the parking lot of pebbles and entering his Range Rover, to continue the preparations for Wednesday's trip to Liverpool.
“I was very happy that ambition and impulse to succeed are still there of all those who all connected to the club,” he said later.
Meanwhile, in the elegant cocktail bar of 1832, Velvet Chesterfields and a radical view of the Northumberland field, an executive type abroad who would take the Howe's seat for the afternoon session drank coffee and waited in front of his laptop . A club partner, most likely, who does not need to be aware of football and the finances of the first part.
The sports director Paul Mitchell, in a brand in black jersey and white shirt, soon greeted the gentleman.
Were you in the game yesterday? asked.
“No,” the answer came.
'Oh, you missed a good' UN, 'said Mitchell.
I was talking about the 4-3 victory over Nottingham Forest, a result that undoubted And the lawyers were gathering.
Newcastle president, Yasir the Rumayyan, attended the St James Park on Sunday
Everything felt a small first day at school, or Sloough meets swindon for fans of The office. Darren Eales, the executive director, and Peter Silverstone, the commercial director, were among the great hosts.
'Good flight?'
Nice room?
'Have you lunch?'
With that, the doors of the Esmeralda restaurant were open, where they expected a buffet of the best meats and fish. Simon Capper, financial director of the Club, was one of the first to replenish.
It is not surprising that he is the man in charge of calculating the margins of profits and sustainability and delivering the inevitable truth to the room: We need to generate more money! It seemed that I needed a cocktail next to it, no matter the chicken.
All bosses were here, but none more important on this historic day than Brad Miller, the director of operations that leads the stadium and training projects.
This was his opportunity to present to Rumayyan and the colleagues of PIF of the president what those on the ground believe that it is the best way to follow. Our sources have long said that a new stadium in the nearby Leazes Park will be its proposal, with a capacity of 70,000 and an avant -garde design.
An imminently expected decision is expected on whether to update St James or build a new stadium
Eddie Howe declared how happy he was with ambition from the top
The alternative is a renovated St James park that has just over 60,000. The world -renowned architects KSS are among those who have provided drawings for both, as we revealed last month.
We also understand that a planning consultant has now enlisted to progress in the Newbuild option, while the free men of the city have been won and downed in the games at home. They and the City Council are key to unlocking the use of the Leazes Park of Grade II.
And so, under the candlesticks and roofs painted, a man's sight felt significant. Roger Thornton, head of ownership of Motcomb Estates, owned by the Reuben brothers, the minority shareholders of the club.
He was appointed member of the Board last year and, according to the sources, he has contacts within the council that have no rival in the construction industry. The wheels must be greased before the excavator engine is activated.
But despite all the basic work that Miller, Eales, Silverstone, Thornton and others have done in recent months, there are two questions: What do Saudites want and will pay it?
The days of the Pif Open checkbook have ended, it is not that I can know for the buffet buffet, the Mercedes van blackened buzzing around the farm and the Jet Gulfstream waiting in a private aerodrome at 12 miles away.
It was always the preference of the Saudi property to remain in St James', at least during the initial exploration. But when Rumayyan kicked a ball on the field after Sunday's victory, he seemed lost in the middle of one million thoughts, perhaps wondering how the best way to invest one billion pounds.
Howe was much more focused when asked on Tuesday what to do to make Newcastle compete at the top. Do not forget, it is the declared ambition of Al Rumayyan to be 'No 1 in the world'.
The Rumayyan spent last week in the speech of President Donald Trump in Miami, along with people like Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.
Rumayyan and Trump in the LIV golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club
“We certainly need, if we seek to catch the teams above us, drastically improve everything we are delivering, still,” said Howe, who has no signature in the first team in two years due to PSR's limitations. 'That goes just to all the department of the club. We have a lot to do to get to the top.
'It won't happen just by thinking about it. It will not happen when it is willing. We have to deliver it. That requires money, which requires investment, which requires intelligent and strategic thinking, which I know is happening in the club. Then we need to implement it.
It was a sober evaluation and statesman where the club is. For all costumes inside Matfen Hall Actually Board room, the one that carries the tracksuit is as intelligent as any of them.
It had been gone when the others retired to the 1832 bar, where the spirits sit on shelves under a series of church ornate arches. Supporters can only pray that the future of their club is in good hands. But until those unique decisions are communicated in life, they, like window cleaners, are looking and wondering from the outside.