Newcastle will face Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund and Milan in a fiendish group on their return to the Champions League
Newcastle have been dealt a fiendish set of assignments against, Borussia Dortmund and Milan in their first Champions League group stage campaign since the 2002-03 season.
There were gasps around the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo when Eddie Howe’s side, who finished fourth in last season’s Premier League, were the final team to be drawn in Group F. The draw sends them to Germany and Italy to face two old powers but the biggest intrigue may lie in their meetings with the French champions, PSG, who are Qatari-owned and have risen to superpower status on the continental scene with the kind of trajectory the Saudi-run Newcastle are aiming to emulate.
It is the sides’ first meeting on this stage since the 2013-14 quarter-finals, when Bayern prevailed 4-2 on aggregate, although the match-up is best known for United’s dramatic victory in the 1999 final. The presence of Kane, whose move from Tottenham was made with the clear ambition of a
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