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The Rafa Benitez Thread

Benitez is a proper coach and could motivate these mercenaries,MaClaren lost the dressing room before christmas.
 
Even a proper coach cannot polish a turd, if I came in first thing, would be to give colo his passport and tell him to fuck off.

 
The Rafa Benitez links at least have a little more credence to them. There was some talk that his people approached Newcastle about possible interest in the past. They were of course rebuffed. He's a brilliant manager and a continental coach would be somewhat more comfortable with a DOF style arrangement.
 
There's a lot grasping at straws here. The more likely scenario is that Mclaren would still be our manger in The Championship. Who else do Carr and Charnley know?
 
vin1892 - 4/3/2016 15:24

There's a lot grasping at straws here. The more likely scenario is that Mclaren would still be our manger in The Championship. Who else do Carr and Charnley know?
Carr and Charnley need replacing too Vin,clear the fucking lot out from the top.
 
I see Nigel Pearson is favourite with the bookies then Moyes. god i hope Pearson doesn't get it he is fucking gash.
 
The Sunday Telegraph seems to have this...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/12184711/David-Moyes-in-the-frame-to-take-over-at-Newcastle-United-as-Steve-McClaren-nears-the-exit-door.html
 
Would Moyes really come when they are odds on for relegation? Don't think he would want to do the Championship. Do we really want Moyes?
 
Interesting piece that by Luke Edwards . Particularly the dropping of Keith Bishop's name which may well give the Moyes rumours a little more validty .

He's a self proclaimed "PR and crisis management specialist” who's been associated with Ashley in one way or another since he first came to Newcastle. Which makes me think a) he's going to be a busy boy and b) that he can't be very good seeing as Newcastle under Ashley have been an unmitigated P.R. disaster .

There have been rumblings for a little while linking him to a possible boardroom role and he's certainly one of Ashley's most trusted advisors . He was behind the Sky interview at the tail end of last season and those emails from Steve and Charnley.


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(Bloke in the specs with the blue scarf looks a bit like David Dickinson. )
 
billybobcat - 6/3/2016 08:43

I see Nigel Pearson is favourite with the bookies then Moyes. god i hope Pearson doesn't get it he is fucking gash.

We've had Pearson before, albeit in a caretaker role some 9 years ago.

His record of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss transferred into today's remaining fixtures, would potentially see us safe so anything can happen here.

That said, he's too much of a risk for the club because he's too much of a straight talker.

In my opinion, I dont think we'll be seeing a change for many reasons that aren't logic in the footballing sense but if we did, it'll be one out of this lot.

Beardsley, Redknapp, Glen Hoddle or Tim Sherwood.
 
Toon_NoMatterWot - 6/3/2016 11:32

billybobcat - 6/3/2016 08:43

I see Nigel Pearson is favourite with the bookies then Moyes. god i hope Pearson doesn't get it he is fucking gash.

We've had Pearson before, albeit in a caretaker role some 9 years ago.

His record of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss transferred into today's remaining fixtures, would potentially see us safe so anything can happen here.

That said, he's too much of a risk for the club because he's too much of a straight talker.

In my opinion, I dont think we'll be seeing a change for many reasons that aren't logic in the footballing sense but if we did, it'll be one out of this lot.

Beardsley, Redknapp, Glen Hoddle or Tim Sherwood.

You're dead right about Pearson being a risk, and not just for interviews neither. I remember his caretaker spell and described Pearson's interview and management style on an alternate version of this site as seeming like one of those blokes who likes his wife to wear a strap on and bum him.
 
I can't see Moyes working for this lot, he's also another negative manager, not losing is his priority. Pearson may just frighten the shit out of them enough in these last 10 games to keep them up, but we probably need more guile. Honestly wouldn't shock me if he stuck with McClaren or brought Redknapp in, can't really see anything else, Moyes certainly wouldn't keep us up, he hasn't the charisma.
 
Moyes is probably better than any manager we've had in the premier league era bar Keegan and Sir Bobby. A competent bloke who set his sides up hard to beat first and takes the cups serious.

His best win percentage came at Man Utd surprisingly as his career is tarnished as being the victim of being the next person after whiskey nose because whoever that was going to be, would have suffered the same comparison.

Id snap him up in normal circumstances but again, until Ashley goes it's pointless.
 
Every Mackem I've spoken to this weekend wants McClaren to stay and the reasoning is the same for all of them. We go down, they stop up.
 
Maybe we'll do to the mackems what they've done to us. Didn't their last three managers lose their first game then won the derby in their second game.
 
It sounds great in theory but attracting a top manager is nigh on impossible. There aren't too many available and of those how many would risk their reputation even for a handful of games? The stumbling block though is Ashley's inability to realize what could happen if a decent appointment was made. He won't of course and he will continue to have mediocre at best and downright incompetence in the key roles within the club.
 
The amount of rumours lying around nowadays is a joke but one of my favourites has to be the Mourinho on a £5m bonus for keeping us up one.