EthiGeordie

Absolutely correct. Every fan are ok about McClaran. Except the world of Newcastle Online dysfunctional family.

. Bobby Robson rejected the job twice. After Keegan left, and before we came back with an improved offer when he was actually appointed. Bobby Robson was at Barcelona. Steve McClaren was at Derby County. Just let that sink in. If your glass is half empty. If your glass is half full. Both are Ex England Mangers.

Mourinho kept the English assistant. Moyes get rid of Fergi stuff and he paid for it.

I have a feeling Carver is somehow retained in some capacity. Otherwise some sort of leaked news would have been released by now.

love his name Quincy Promes

Would rather have none of them. They're all ass-kissing failures who believe they're entitled to work here because they're good Jawdie lads. Me too on both Account Dont need Clark, Stone and Carver them Geordie stoogs. His coaching team at Derby are light years a head of us.

Thanks both second place finished nations deserve to get the tournament.

I know USA finish second to Qatar who finish second to Russia?

Dortumed have the same one like this. You lot think special than them. If it good enough for them it should be good enough for a relegation fighter team.

I am well excited for Steel more than the rest of them.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/24331558 Some time this week...

Are we going to be his biggest job after England?

Poor guy dont get a chance before he start.

Love Loretta Lynch her tough action started all this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/derby-county/11392450/Steve-McClarens-long-road-back-to-relevance-is-indictment-of-Premier-Leagues-popularity-contest.html McClaren was close to getting the Aston Villa job in 2011 – but a meeting was cancelled by the owner Randy Lerner for fear of the fans’ reaction and because his right-hand man had read the websites, blogs and forums. Really? So – after Roberto Martinez made it clear he would not leave Wigan Athletic at that stage - Lerner appointed Alex McLeish instead…who had just been relegated with Birmingham City. Go figure that one out.

What makes Clement better than McC? lol some people really make me laugh.

Bringing this guy should be his priority.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3042412/From-Manchester-United-Derby-County-Eric-Steele-reflects-glittering-career-aims-Premier-League-promotion-stays-coy-Newcastle-links.html I like the way he organize the back four. Newcastle, Steele's boyhood club, have recognised the work done by McClaren and would like the 53-year-old as head coach come summer. Steele is too long in the tooth to rule anything out. 'In football, everything is a possibility,' he says. 'I am a Geordie born and bred, and a good friend of mine, Peter Beardsley, still works for the club. All I would say is I am contracted and loyal to Derby County Football Club.

I work there so I've been asking around for a few months, general consensus is he was the best they've had and going to the match was enjoyable. I sound like I'm backing this appointment in here, I'm not, but he'll get the benefit of the doubt from me, he's done enough to warrant that imo. They were on the pitch throwing season tickets at him months before he left. Can't believe you're back on board with a bloke who's just had the bullet from Derby and Forest. I certainly won't be back while he's here. I must be speaking to different people, either that or they're lying? Define back on board, I won't be setting foot in SJP until Ashley leaves. I'll be watching the games again, is that back on board? Glad to hear it. Hindsight perhaps? Rose tinted view because of the cup? He was extremely unpopular by the end, mainly for his horribly negative football. http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/onthisboroday-2006-irate-boro-fan-8573275 http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/bernie-slaven-steve-mcclaren-wasnt-6914404 On the second link pic is that our former GK coach under Hughton?

Either he will be big hit or he will be a big miss. All his spells are good or bad. Boro seems good, then England disaster. Then Twente Success followed by Wolfsburg disaster along with Twente again and Forest again disaster. Derby is a success. This show me he has 50-50 chance here. One thing for sure being a mate of Carr will give him one of the best chances. Players like Anita and Marvoux will get a new lease of life as well. It was too late for last year releases.

Reassessing Steve McClaren’s nine months at Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga The former England manager joined Wolfsburg at arguably the peak of his career, having won the Eredivisie with Twente. He moved to the Bundesliga to continue his continental renaissance but it didn’t quite work out as he had hoped Wednesday 13 May 2015 England managers often fall foul of missed penalty kicks but in the case of Steve McClaren it wasn’t an England player that sealed his fate, but a Brazilian. In the 80th minute of Wolfsburg’s away match at Hannover 96, and with his team trailing 1-0, his struggling side had a chance to get back into the game and gain a creditable away point when the referee awarded a penalty. What happened next was both a symptom of his lack of authority among the squad and the final nail in his coffin. Advertisement Diego, the victim of the foul, immediately picked himself up and grabbed the ball. The designated penalty taker, Patrick Helmes, switched to autopilot and strode towards the Brazilian pointing to himself, only to be brushed aside. Clearly confused, Helmes looked over to the McClaren on the Wolfsburg bench and relayed the message to Diego who – without turning around to acknowledge his wildly gesticulating manager – sent Helmes away and set himself for the spot kick. As the penalty crashed against the bar, Diego stood rooted to the spot and the camera cut straight to a furious McClaren on the sideline. Red-faced, he screamed his disapproval in the Brazilian’s direction, stomping back to the bench, constantly turning back to shout what can only have been expletives towards his player. Not only had he disobeyed a direct instruction and undermined his manager in public, but he had consigned his team to the defeat that would ultimately cost McClaren his job. Wolfsburg announced McClaren’s sacking the day after the match, saying they had lost faith in his ability to turn around the club’s fortunes. Advertisement McClaren joined the 2009 Bundesliga champions at what was arguably the high point of his career to date. Having been hounded out of England following his ill-fated tenure with the national team, he went looking for pastures new and was a surprise appointment at Dutch club FC Twente in the Eredivisie. This was a brave and intriguing choice for McClaren, who before failing with England had made his name as Ferguson’s assistant at Manchester United, as the main man at Middlesbrough and later as Sven-Göran Eriksson’s No2 with the Three Lions. Despite his credentials and undisputed qualities as a coach, McClaren left for the Netherlands with his reputation – and most probably his pride – severely bruised having failed to lead England to Euro 2008. If his move to the Eredivisie caught some people off guard, then the level of success he enjoyed was just shy of incredible. Having success in the Eredivisie with a team that is not Ajax, PSV or Feyenoord is an achievement not to be sniffed at. And, lo and behold, in his first season with Twente, the man last seen staring on to a damp Wembley pitch with a glazed look in his eye, sheltering under a large FA-sponsored umbrella, finished as league and cup runner up. McClaren brought real glory to Twente in the following season, leading them to their first Eredivisie title in the club’s history. In doing so, he also became the first Englishman to win a top-level league abroad since Bobby Robson’s success at Porto in the mid-1990s. McClaren Steve McClaren celebrates as Twente win the Eredivisie in 2010. Photograph: Koen van Weel/EPA McClaren was once again hot property and was tempted to the Bundesliga soon after to join Wolfsburg, making him the first ever Englishman to manage a top-flight German club. Backed by the millions of car-manufacturing giants Volkswagen, the club’s owners and sponsors, Die Wölfe had assembled a star-studded squad and were looking to once again challenge for the league title they had relinquished so timidly the previous season. This was an opportunity for the former England boss to place himself among the upper echelons of Europe’s elite managers. Things, however, started badly. To be fair to McClaren, he was thrown in at the deep end – with the league schedule having him start at the Allianz Arena against defending champions Bayern. Thomas Müller, the revelation of that summer’s World Cup in South Africa, gave Louis van Gaal’s side an early lead, but Wolfsburg did not let themselves be overrun and equalised through Edin Dzeko early in the second half. Far from simply hanging on, McClaren’s team had chances to win the game before Bastian Schweinsteiger struck at the death to seal the points. A 2-1 away defeat to Bayern is no disgrace for any team. Nevertheless, had Wolfsburg started with a point from this game, things may have turned out differently. As it transpired, Schweinsteiger’s last-ditch winner was a prelude to an overarching drama that would characterise McClaren’s brief tenure in Germany’s top flight. The fact that so few Englishmen, players or otherwise, try their luck beyond our shores has been widely reported and lamented. And although I have no vested interest in VfL Wolfsburg, and to be honest find them to be rather soulless and uninspiring, I wanted McClaren to do well – to see his bold and ambitious decision rewarded. He could have easily dined out on his success with Twente and strolled into a decent job in England, his reputation repaired and his ego massaged. Still, he chose to continue his development and to learn what it means to be successful in another league, another culture. In short, he backed himself, and you have to respect that. At this time, I was still relatively new to Germany and hadn’t pledged my allegiances to any one club. And although I was certainly no Wolfsburg fan, McClaren’s German jaunt gave me something to follow. If the injury-time defeat to Bayern on the opening day set the tone, then his first home match would have left the ex-England man with little doubt as to the kind of season he was about to have. Buoyed by the performance against the champions, Wolfsburg went into the first home match of the season against Mainz 05 full of optimism. The hardest fixture of the season – on paper, at least – was over and it was now time to kick on. And kick on they did. A doppelpack from Dzeko and a goal from the manager’s soon-to-be least-favourite Brazilian, Diego, gave Wolfsburg a 3-0 lead after only 30 minutes. With the August sun shining over the packed Volkswagen Arena, McClaren was enjoying a dream home debut and could have been forgiven for thinking that this Bundesliga business was going to be a doddle. However, as any regular viewer of German football will know, the Bundesliga is as unforgiving and unpredictable as any league in Europe. It is a league that had crowned three different champions in the four seasons prior to McClaren’s arrival. It was also, and still is, a competition that regularly throws up surprise results, comebacks and multiple-goal thrillers at a rate at least comparable to the Premier League. Still, he would have felt confident that his first three points were safely tucked under his belt. After an hour, however, it was 3-3. Determined not to let the game slip away, McClaren flung on Grafite, scorer of 39 goals in 49 league games over the previous two campaigns. But, despite the increased firepower, it was Thomas Tuchel – successor to Jürgen Klopp’s throne at Mainz (and Borussia Dortmund) – whose team came out on top, thanks to an 85th-minute winner. Willkommen in Deutschland Mr McClaren! The images in that evening’s Sportschau program of the former England coach slumped in his dugout, head in hands were something we would see often that season, with increasing levels of sympathy. Another defeat on match day three, this time at the hands of eventual champions Borussia Dortmund, saw the team firmly ensconced at the wrong end of the table. The pressure was already on. Backed by the coffers of Volkswagen, Wolfsburg had assembled an impressive squad. Although they lost Zvjezdan Misimovic, who had laid on an impressive 20 assists when they won the league, the majority of the title-winning squad was intact and there were notable additions in Diego, Mario Mandzukic and Arne Friedrich, a regular in the Germany team that played at the 2010 World Cup. McClaren also beat off interest from elite clubs in Serie A and the Premier League to sign Danish defender Simon Kjaer from Palermo. When he joined the club, McClaren’s remit was to challenge for the league, not scrap to stay in it. Thankfully for him, the team’s quality started to show and they were unbeaten in their next four league games, winning three in the process and hoisting themselves up the table to the European places. Despite the welcome upturn in fortunes and the wealth of attacking options, Wolfsburg were wobbly at the back – and the aforementioned Kjaer was arguably the main culprit. The blond defender, and Danish Talent of the Year 2009, always looked good for a mistake and often seemed panicky on the ball. In their next home game following the unbeaten run, Wolfsburg once again managed to turn three points into zero, allowing a 2-0 lead on 72 minutes to end in a 3-2 defeat at the hands Bayer Leverkusen. McClaren, understandably, was furious – and unfortunately things were not about to get much better. After being tamed by Leverkusen, the Wolves won only two of the next 13 league games, including a run of seven draws in a row. Week after week McClaren would switch between being furious and frustrated on the touchline and downbeat and disheveled in the post-match interview. He was beginning to look helpless and the team looked in danger of being in real trouble. Speculation surrounding his position was rife, but in the winter break the club publicly backed their man – only to send him packing six weeks later, following Diego’s petulant penalty shenanigans in Hannover. Despite his efforts, he had left the 2009 champions sliding towards the second tier, leaving them only one point above the dreaded relegation play-off position. To make matters worse, star striker Edin Dzeko was packing his bags to join Manchester City. After leaving England for the Netherlands, McClaren’s stock had risen considerably. There was recognition for his success with Twente and admiration for his moxy in going to Germany, so much so that he was even talked about as a genuine contender to succeed the outgoing Fabio Capello in the England job – an amazing turnaround in fortunes and public perception. After being sacked by Wolfsburg, however, he was knocked down a peg – and league – re-entering the game at Nottingham Forest in the Championship. George, Kevin-Prince and Jérôme Boateng: football's intriguing brothers Read more Of course, McClaren has since worked his way back up the managerial food chain and is now trying to return to the Premier League with Derby County. Still, there is more than a tinge of regret and thoughts of what might have been for the Bundesliga’s first English manager. Apparently McClaren had been coming on well with his German lessons (and soon abandoned simply speaking English as if he was German) and, despite being situated in one of the less attractive parts of the country, he had embraced the challenge and seemed to be in it for the long haul. It is regrettable that things didn’t work out as he had hoped. Nevertheless, his decision to try his hand in Germany should be applauded and he will hopefully not be the first and last to do so. He probably retains a good grasp of basic German phrases and vocabulary, however, the ones he may have used on that day in Hannover are almost certainly unfit for publication. • This article first appeared on Englische Woche • Follow Englische Woche on Twitter More features Topics Steve McClaren Bundesliga European club football Wolfsburg England Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Pos Team P GD Pts Form 1 Bayern 34 62 79 Won against Hertha Berlin Lost to Leverkusen Lost to Augsburg Lost to SC Freiburg Won against Mainz 2 Wolfsburg 34 34 69 Lost to M'gladbach Drew with Hannover Won against Paderborn Won against Dortmund Drew with Cologne 3 M'gladbach 34 27 66 Won against Wolfsburg Won against Hertha Berlin Won against Leverkusen Won against Werder Bremen Lost to Augsburg 4 Leverkusen 34 25 61 Drew with Cologne Won against Bayern Lost to M'gladbach Won against TSG Hoffenheim Lost to Eintracht Frankfurt 5 Augsburg 34 0 49 Lost to Hamburg Drew with Cologne Won against Bayern Lost to Hannover Won against M'gladbach 6 Schalke 34 2 48 Lost to Mainz Won against Stuttgart Lost to Cologne Won against Paderborn Lost to Hamburg 7 Dortmund 34 5 46 Won against Eintracht Frankfurt Drew with TSG Hoffenheim Won against Hertha Berlin Lost to Wolfsburg Won against Werder Bremen 8 TSG Hoffenheim 34 -6 44 Won against Hannover Drew with Dortmund Lost to Eintracht Frankfurt Lost to Leverkusen Won against Hertha Berlin 9 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 -6 43 Lost to Dortmund Lost to Werder Bremen Won against TSG Hoffenheim Drew with Hertha Berlin Won against Leverkusen 10 Werder Bremen 34 -15 43 Drew with Paderborn Won against Eintracht Frankfurt Drew with Hannover Lost to M'gladbach Lost to Dortmund Bundesliga View full Bundesliga table

Told you guys it is not McClaran

There will be more twist in this I dont think McClaran interviewed.

The new news is they are not interviewing McClaren this week. Unless they give the job to Carver or another candidate how are they finalizing it before Friday.

Our last hope for something of fresh change is if they fire this snob tomorrow.