Newcastle United in Tokyo: Shields Gazette touch down in Japan

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00:00So we're here at Manchester Airport getting ready to jet off to Tokyo, Newcastle United's pre-season in full swing after a whole yesterday.

00:10Good game, good warm-up from Newcastle, now this is the crux of it.

00:14Yeah, it's the proper stuff this, isn't it?

00:16Yeah, we've got a long journey ahead, a couple of hours till we take off from Shanghai, about 11 hours I think the flight is,

00:23and then we've got a couple of hours waiting in Shanghai before we go to Tokyo.

00:26But yeah, how can we complain, we're both looking forward to it, aren't we?

00:29Really, really exciting. This, we'll see the likes of Bruno for the first time,

00:35we'll see Fabian Scherminger and Armand come back, Martin Dabrowski as well, those international players.

00:41We won't see Anthony Gordon and Kieran Trippi unfortunately,

00:44but it'll be good for Eddie how to get the sort of meat and bones of his squad back together ahead of the new season,

00:52which starts in less than three weeks' time, so it's going to be really important.

00:56We saw at Hull yesterday, Eddie Howe named as strong a starting XI as he could,

01:01but there were still a lot of players who would do well to play Premier League football in the positions they played.

01:08It's still a bare-bones sort of squad at the moment.

01:11Yeah, I think the desperate, well I wouldn't say desperate, but you want to see recognised players back,

01:17you want to see international players back, obviously you mentioned too that wouldn't be there,

01:20Trippi, Aaron, Gordon, but you've got the likes of, who's come back?

01:25Shea is a big one, Bruno is a big one.

01:27Yeah, well Bruno is the main one.

01:29He's the main man.

01:30I think seeing him will give everyone a lift, and hopefully as well, there might be some transfer activity,

01:35but as we spoke to Eddie Howe after yesterday, nothing is closed.

01:39But yeah, I think seeing the likes of Bruno will give someone a lift,

01:42and what would give someone a bigger lift would be to see a player come through the door,

01:45and you can't start working hard on that, but as we said to Ian now, no news.

01:49But yeah, good commercial opportunities over there as well, we should mention,

01:53that's why they do this, why they're not straight at the end of last season,

01:56as much as that sort of was criticised in some parts.

01:59It was, I would say probably the first game against Spurs was good for the commercial side,

02:04maybe not the loss to the AEG All-Stars, but coming here playing against two GLeague sides,

02:10hopefully get a new fan base, the players and stuff will be out in the public meeting local fans,

02:15so it should be a productive trip and we'll be covering every step of the way.

02:41Are you impressed by Shanghai, Jordan?

02:44No.

02:54And konnichiwa, we're in Tokyo, Japan.

02:58It's been a long, long 24 hours, I don't want to sound too full of complaints,

03:04we're here, I'm glad we're here, but I think the clock's just struck,

03:09we've been awake exactly 24 hours and we're just walking to the hotel now,

03:14so in the Shinjuku city region or world of Tokyo, if you like,

03:20slightly quieter at the moment, we're in the shade.

03:23First impression of Tokyo, Jordan?

03:25I think you'll agree, I think the shade is no respite,

03:29it is possibly the warmest place I've ever been.

03:32It's so hot, like so humid, as soon as we got out of the train station there.

03:38It's something I've never experienced before, and even walking around now,

03:41you can probably see it on our face, especially mine,

03:43there's literally sweat dripping from my forehead.

03:46Tough for Newcastle then.

03:48I know, that's what I mean, yeah.

03:49They've got to go and play on this on Wednesday night and Saturday night,

03:53but then we've got to probably sit in it as well,

03:55there might be a bit of sunshine on us, so I'm glad you brought suncream,

03:58because I didn't, so I'll be nicking some of your suncream,

04:01but I suppose we'll get used to it, but it's finally good to actually be here,

04:06because, as you mentioned there, it's been such a long journey.

04:11The Shanghai.

04:12The Shanghai saga.

04:14Yeah, so we'll start off getting to Shanghai,

04:16which was just under 11 hours of turnout in the end, I think.

04:19Yeah, which, I mean, we knew it was daunting, but hey,

04:22a few films on the plane, a bit of Hunger Games for you, Jordan.

04:25Hunger Games, yeah, and a couple of my films as well,

04:28as I'm finding any crashes in there.

04:30Sorry if I'm off camera, I'm with both the suitcases, it's Jordan's.

04:34I can't multitask, but it's beautiful.

04:36I'm not usually good walking with a selfie stick, so I'm trying.

04:39I would have thought, get it done on our walk to the hotel.

04:43We don't know what the hotel's like either, but we're in Shinjuku City,

04:47which is also where Newcastle are based as well,

04:50so Newcastle, probably here, around about now,

04:54flew from Newcastle via Uzbekistan, so that's an interesting journey for them.

05:00So, yeah, we might see players out and about,

05:03but I imagine, like us, they're probably quite tired.

05:06Yeah, well, I mean, I probably hope Aircon's in their room as well.

05:09I'm sure it will be in the hotel.

05:10I really hope so, because, yeah, it's not the heat,

05:15it's the humidity, isn't it?

05:17It's hardly that, yeah.

05:18It's clinging to you, it's not nice, but look, we're here.

05:22Yeah, yeah, to be positive.

05:24It's great to be here, you're looking around.

05:26I mean, we were in the hustle and bustle earlier next to the train station.

05:30We thought, actually, we're going to probably struggle to do a video here,

05:34and we haven't even got our bearings yet.

05:36But at the moment, we think we're going in the right direction for the hotel.

05:40So, yeah, and it is a bit quiet out other than that.

05:44A little alarm going off at the moment.

05:46Yeah, we'll put these mics on to try and cancel out.

05:50Might sound like we're a bit underwater, a bit muffled, but hey.

05:53We do try.

05:55Yeah, but just as we're getting on the plane to Manchester, actually,

05:59Newcastle's squad list dropped.

06:01Yeah.

06:02So we've got confirmation of that.

06:03No real surprises, would you say?

06:05Yeah.

06:06No, there's no real surprises.

06:07I thought Sandro Tannoli was an interesting one.

06:09Yeah, they named him, obviously, con player, but yeah,

06:11they named him on the squad list.

06:12But I think the only notable absentees were the two I already knew about,

06:15Kieran Trippie, Anthony Gordon.

06:16Yeah.

06:17And then if you look at a few others as well, Matt Target, Joe White.

06:21Hey, Alex Murphy, if you want to include him as well.

06:23Yeah, yeah.

06:24So there was a couple of known absentees, but as expected, really.

06:32I think Matt Target's injury, I presume Alex Murphy's an injury as well.

06:37Joe White, we know, was an injury.

06:38So lots of injuries still in there, but Newcastle have narrowed off.

06:43They've definitely got a better squad, a more senior squad,

06:45than they did against Fulham.

06:46Yeah, bolstered by the likes of Bruno, who's been making his own way there.

06:50Also the likes of Joe Linton, facetiming.

06:53So, yeah, it'll be good to see them all back together.

06:58And two decent tests, because I think the weather will certainly be…

07:02Bruno might be used to it, having played in South America,

07:05but this is certainly not north-east England weather,

07:09and certainly not hull weather, even though it was quite nice in Hull the other day.

07:13Yeah, I'm just looking at my face now, it's got more and more red.

07:15It's the start of the war.

07:16I hope this hotel is close, so we can stop for a little bit and talk.

07:19I think it's close. I hope it's close.

07:22Yeah, let's go back the journey, I suppose,

07:26because that was what we sort of touched upon,

07:28where it was a bit of a nightmare in Shanghai, really, wasn't it?

07:33I mean, it just didn't make any sense.

07:35No, so we were given boarding passes to get through…

07:41I don't know if we're being naïve here,

07:43but in our experience getting connections, of which we've got many,

07:48it's not that difficult.

07:51You just walk through to the next one.

07:53Shanghai wanted us to basically check in all over again,

07:58but then couldn't check us in properly.

08:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:01Still at you and me?

08:02Yeah, they shut the door.

08:04I thought I'd lost you.

08:05It was shocking.

08:06But basically, they give you a boarding pass to board the plane at Shanghai

08:09to get to Tokyo, at Manchester,

08:11and then we had to get another queue to get another boarding pass.

08:13To get the same thing, basically.

08:15And then we went through the gate that we knew we were going to go through.

08:18No one was happy.

08:19There was a woman who was waiting for a flight a lot later than ours,

08:22and she was like,

08:23I just want to go to the departure lounge.

08:26They weren't letting us do any of that.

08:28Yeah.

08:29It wasn't seamless, but I'll tell you what,

08:31once we got to Tokyo, it absolutely was.

08:33Yeah, it really was.

08:35Through immigration, customs, all that,

08:38within about 20 minutes of landing,

08:40which for a major city like Tokyo,

08:43even though we went to the outskirts airport, Narita Airport,

08:47yeah, it was seamless.

08:49And then, short, I'll say short,

08:51about the Narita train journey here,

08:53direct to Shinjuku,

08:56and now we're walking to the hotel.

08:58So yeah, first impressions of Tokyo.

09:01We haven't really seen much of it.

09:03It's just a quiet sort of street we're walking on now.

09:06I can see the hotel there.

09:08Oh, my God.

09:09Lovely.

09:10We nearly made it.

09:11I thought we were walking aimlessly.

09:12No, no, I can see it there.

09:14So yeah, first impressions,

09:16it's warm, but hey,

09:18we'll have a further look around later on,

09:21maybe after a bit of sleep, a bit of work.

09:24I've no Wi-Fi either,

09:25so that's been another bit of fun.

09:28I hope you get to see this video.

09:30I hope the hotel has Wi-Fi as well as air con.

09:33But yeah, more to come, obviously,

09:35over on Shields Gazette from myself

09:38and Jordan on Newcastle World as well.

09:41Yeah, plenty more to come in the next couple of days,

09:43starting with Tuesday,

09:45which the time difference here,

09:47Tokyo is eight hours ahead.

09:49But we're going to see Eddie Howe and these players

09:52early morning, I think it is, about half ten?

09:54Yeah.

09:55So it'll be sort of midnight,

09:57like just after midnight.

09:59Yeah, keep an eye out on our Twitter pages.

10:03Obviously, I mentioned there,

10:04Newcastle World, Shields Gazette,

10:05for any content from that.

10:06I'm sure I'll get lots of video from that.

10:08Opportunity to speak to Eddie Howe

10:10and a player or two as well.

10:12So a good way to start the trip.

10:14And then obviously on the Wednesday as well,

10:16the first game they kick off against

10:18Eurora Red Diamonds,

10:19I think that's how you pronounce it.

10:20Yeah, yeah.

10:21So yeah, plenty more to come.

10:24So yeah, stay tuned.

10:26You can hear us.

10:27Yeah.

10:28That's deafening, that.

10:29Right, we'll call it there.

10:31But as I say, stay tuned,

10:32Newcastle World and Shields Gazette.

10:34Lots more to come in the coming days.

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