Takeover talk a distraction at Newcastle leaving Benítez to fret over January funds | Louise Taylor

The club is no closer to changing ownership, Mike Ashley is on holiday and the manager has no idea of his budget for players

There is a particularly telling scene in the new Netflix documentary Sunderland ‘Til I Die in which Martin Bain, the club’s former chief executive, pulls up at a set of traffic lights controlling a busy junction.

As he sits at the expensive wheel of his company car, Bain audibly wonders which way he should go, where on earth does he turn now? That little cameo has greatly amused Newcastle United fans who are delighting in lapping up a documentary revealing the grisly details of their greatest rivals’ plunge into League One last season.

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