The close proximity to Manchester helps too.
Darras Hall near Ponteland in Northumberland according to Google
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Its not just partying its general lifestyle Newcastle is a great place but its not got the appeal of London and Manchester. Leeds is a more vibrant City than Newcastle but they still get overshadowed.
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Pretty sure these guys earn enough to host their own parties in their own backyard which can put any nightlife to shame.
As long as they don’t do a partey , its all fine.
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Newcastle is also quite isolated. The nearest major metropolises to it are Leeds and Edinburgh. The firm I worked for there did struggle to recruit from outside the area and they certainly didn’t pay footballer wages!
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Most of our footballers live in Cheshire which seems to be a place inbetween Manchester and Liverpool.
Quite a lot of Manchester based footballers live there too.
Assume Newcastle is too far up to have a suitable community like that.
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Adderley Edge is the area.
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Well it is Alderley Edge…posers paradise… but some do live locally. Diaz lived 100 yards from me.
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The bridge is burnt and floating down the Tyne to the North Sea.
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Just thinking about the domestic side of any move, I was interested in this article in The Guardian, particularly how they addressed the family’s needs in encouraging a transfer:
The head of player care
We were told the prospective new signing had young kids who adored the movie Frozen. We also knew he had been over by himself for a visit and had not been taken by the area or any of it, really. He was wavering. So the club asked me and my team whether we could resurrect it.
Our work often starts before the transfer, selling the idea of life away from the pitch. Houses, schools, restaurants, flights back to the player’s home country. With the player in question, we brought his family over. We took them to see houses that were within their budget. And we wandered around central London with an actor dressed up as Elsa from Frozen, who we had paid £200. By the end of day two, the family were saying: ‘We’re home.’ The player signed.
Another part of it is coordinating the signing day. That’s booking the flight in, whether it’s commercial or private. Getting the player to the hotel, making sure he’s not seen. There’s security. Some clubs like to use decoy cars from the airport to throw waiting media off the scent. It’s also guiding the player through the medical, providing translation services, itinerary building that takes in media and comms.
The player-care team will see the player five times a day for the first couple of weeks, sorting out the building blocks of life: house, car, bank account, visa, phone, schools. And then the role changes to more of a support mechanism, so it’ll be once or twice a day.
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It still amuses me that Tevez saw his first payslip and wondered why someone called PAYE was taking so much of his money. 
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I still wonder that every month!
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Joyce
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Don’t worry Isak, we have seen the excellent barbecues Alisson puts on.
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I cant see how this helps anyone, it’s just a really petty thing to do. Surely a want away player should still be made welcome to an event like this.
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You would think thats the correct course of action.
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I’m beginning to understand his father a bit more…
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I mean on one hand I like that you clearly respected his privacy - but to think of all the lost ITK opportunities…kind of tragic.
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Wilmslow and Withington and Prestbury..