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Newcastle Supporters' Trust happy after meeting with Ghodoussi and Staveley

Newcastle United Supporters' Trust has offered details from their 75-minute meeting with the club's new directors.

Mehrdad Ghodoussi and Amanda Staveley met with three representatives of the Trust this week.

Trust chairman Greg Tomlinson told Chronicle Live: "They have got a lot of work to do in terms of rebuilding the club, and I think we're all aligned in terms of right now, while we want to see best in-class supporter engagement, right now there's one priority for everybody and that's staying in the Premier League.

"I would say it's a really, really important step forward. We've had 14 years of Mike Ashley's ownership and effectively not caring about the supporters or showing any ambition.

"What we plan to do is build a lasting relationship where we can have that dialogue on things that matter to supporters. We're not there to talk about who they should be signing or footballing matters such as who should play at left back.

"We can help them and work with them on issues that impact supporters like ticketing, improvements to St James' Park and the matchday experience. It can be very beneficial to both sides, we want them to instil best in-class in supporter engagement and we're confident they will."

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