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This is why many didn't want him anywhere near the dugout on Sunday

Also not about you??

He's one to tell someone they're not doing their job properly!

First questions at Rafa's press conference naturally about us

As it said, things could change in the next 12 hours for that not to happen but they'd be leaving it tight

Yeah Bruce

Does get Graeme spelled wrong though, just overlook that

I didn't realise either https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/12/graham-potter-another-path-for-english-managers-ostersund-arsenal-europa-league Higher education reshaped Potter. He began his first social sciences degree while playing for Southampton and eventually completed his masters. Luck then played its part. Graham Jones, Roberto Martínez’s assistant coach, had played with Potter at Boston and they were old friends. When Jones and Martínez were at Swansea they often played pre-season friendlies in Östersund. Jones forged a bond with Daniel Kindberg, their ambitious chairman. He convinced Kindberg that Potter should be offered the job as manager when the club were watched by just 500 fans and languishing in the bottom division.

Hope's opinion piece https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10093783/CRAIG-HOPE-Steve-Bruce-charge-new-owners-know-presence-sour-mood.html Steve Bruce would be sacked this week, we were told. Newcastle United's new owners had realised how his presence could have a negative impact during their first game at home to Spurs on Sunday. Sources say that opinion has not changed. Yet here we are and Bruce remains, even scheduled to speak to the media on Friday afternoon. Players are confused, it is said, and want clarity. Many of them want a change of manager but, more so, they want to win their first match of the season. If Bruce is going to be in charge then they should know, allowing for greater focus. But they also want to venture to St James’ Park free of feelings of animosity and resentment towards those in positions of seniority at their club. The prospect of Bruce being on the touchline, therefore, is a troubling one for supporters. It is not that they will boo him from the off - as they have done in some matches this season - but if Newcastle find themselves behind, there is a danger the crowd will turn on Bruce. They will be loath to do so, because Sunday, for them, is not about vitriol. They want to show the world what a united and re-energised support sounds like. But with Bruce there, one or two notes might sound a little flatter than they should be. The new owners - certainly those on the ground on Tyneside this past week - are fully aware of the strength of feeling against Bruce. One senior figure inside the club, we understand, has also warned of the need to make an immediate change. Everyone, it seems, is on the same page. Even Bruce himself went on the record in saying he as good as anticipates the sack. But for it not to happen by now has dampened the mood. It will be awkward and unnecessary if, come 1.30pm on Friday, it is Bruce facing the questions. This press conference was always going to be about the future. We never imagined it would be Bruce’s future the talking point. For how can Bruce be the man the new regime presents to the watching world when we are led to believe he has no part in their plans? It feels wrong. Maybe, in time, we will come to reflect and wonder what all of the fuss was about. There is every chance that a wave of euphoria will carry Newcastle to victory against Spurs, regardless of whether it’s Steve Bruce or Fiona Bruce in the dugout. It is just that, much like those relics on Fiona’s Antiques Roadshow, the Toon Army had hoped Steve would be a thing of the past.

Martinez is a weird one for me, yeah he complements Jones well who's already here. But the ideal manager shouldn't be picked because he's worked with a coach before... His Everton in 2013/14 picked up 72 points which is their most in the Premier League era. (65 in 2007/08 was their 2nd most points) Won the FA Cup with Wigan so he's rightly remembered fondly there. Whoever's manager when we win a trophy (and it is a when!) will be remembered so well because it's been so long. But he has his shortcomings which have already been mentioned

I thought it was because Paratici wanted someone more conservative, or at least that's the narrative Fonseca played https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11675/12415204/paulo-fonseca-says-tottenhams-fabio-paratici-pulled-out-of-deal-to-appoint-him-over-his-attacking-football He told Telegraph Sport: "The agreement was done. We were planning the pre-season and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn't announced but we planned pre-season players. "But things changed when the new managing director arrived and we didn't agree with some ideas and he preferred another coach. "I have some principles. I wanted to be coach of the great teams but I want the right project and a club where the people believe in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn't happen with the managing director. "It's what the chairman (Daniel Levy) and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for: to build a team who can play attractive and offensive football and I was ready for that.

Interesting if he would leave this only half a year ago to us, relegation-threatened but with potentially unlimited riches in theory

NUFC360 tweeted it before I found it! It's a good read anyway, very promising the future

He was sacked by our rivals 10 years ago for a virtually identical record (we've won one less and lost one less in two fewer games). Astounds me why some, especially the Sunderland fans not on a wind-up, think he's the right man

Said earlier in a thread I've never seen an Express article that doesn't cover another site's news, glad to say I've been proven wrong https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1506006/Newcastle-takeover-EXCLUSIVE-transfer-news-FFP-Amanda-Staveley-Chelsea An established intermediary, who has helped broker four Premier League transfers in the past two years, exclusively tells Express Sport: "This kind of scenario - where a club that is usually as quiet as a mouse in the transfer market - suddenly has loads of cash, is like a lottery for agents, honestly. "Newcastle has always been a prestigious and historic club in English football, very highly regarded in European countries but the project is now so fascinating. Whether you agree with the ethics or not. "But the next few months will be crazy, I can tell you that. Players will be offered to the club virtually every day and others will play the game and use their name to secure big, big contracts. More cash for the players and agents. "From what I hear and know, Newcastle do not want to just throw all their money at big names. They have a strategy and plan to sign younger, talented players and invest smartly in some experience. I think that's clever." The early word out of Newcastle is that the new board will instead seek to replicate a similar model to that of RB Leipzig in order to fast-track their way to success and in the view of the incognito intermediary, Rangnick would therefore be the perfect appointment. "They want a model and similar infrastructure to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga, which is why Rangnick is the guy they want at the top, he knows his stuff," the intermediary added. "There is a lot of b******* rumours flying about though with players, targets and so on. It's crazy and funny but we expect it. "But Newcastle are listening to proposals already. There will be no clear final decisions right now but in the next few months, they will plan ahead for January. "The new coach will also have a voice that will be heard but from what I know, the money is there to do what they want! There is talks, every day. We hold regular dialogue with the club."

Here are the other "1000 club" inductees https://leaguemanagers.com/managers/1000-club/

“It is chaos, complete and utter chaos” is how one well-placed observer described Newcastle United’s first week under their new owners. It is understood that while PIF, which owns 80 per cent of Newcastle's shares, initially wanted to fade into the background, largely in order to manage expectations, it is keeping a watchful eye on everything. It intends to be an active investor rather than passive money provider and every decision is being questioned, scrutinised and then effectively decided by PIF. Staveley, as well as Reuben, the other non-executive director, are also effectively on trial. Their new jobs are exciting and very visible, but they have begun with a probation period. The Saudis want to assess them and gauge whether they are capable of delivering what they want in terms of running the club on a day-to-day basis on their behalf. There is no sense of division or animosity, even if the huge variety of names being linked to the jobs of manager, sporting director and chief executive is mainly down to the fact they all have different candidates in mind. The new regime is trying to do things the right way, seeking advice from those with more detailed knowledge of English football, and the hope must be that things will settle down, as they did with Manchester City when they were taken over by their oil-rich state backers more than a decade ago. That situation was, as one source told Telegraph Sport, “exactly the same” as Newcastle are going through. “There is no need to worry,” they added. “Things will settle down once they have the right people in place in the senior management roles.”

OK, so this is another area where I have to give some perspective. “No set-up, no structure is set in stone,” a good source told me on Monday night. What we have to remember is that although Staveley and co have had plenty of time to study Newcastle’s books, they were under orders from Ashley not to speak to anybody employed by the club until the deal went through. They had met and talked to nobody until last week and had not visited the training ground until Monday. “We need to go in and do a very robust assessment of where the club is at every level and then come back and make decisions,” Staveley said. While they do that, a report will be put together – what do they want the club to look like, what will the structure be? They have had plenty of ideas in the past, but individuals – like Benitez, for instance – have moved on and so those ideas have never crystallised. At the same time, they will have to inquire about who might be available, so we can all expect a steady drip of names and stories. They will also be bombarded by agents telling them their clients are available. Some will use the media. Doesn’t mean they’ll be appointed, doesn’t mean they won’t be. For a variety of complicated reasons, I was told there’s “no chance” of Rangnick coming to Newcastle, but I’m not setting that in stone either yet. I just don’t think the club are at the decision-making stage and won’t be for a while. Is what Caulkin said. If they're not at the decision-making stage no wonder. But if reports suggesting he's interested (as a sporting director but could slot as manager if he committed though he might not want to now) are true I can't see why we shouldn't go for it

If Rangick's the sporting director of choice then it's him imo until the summer. Demba Ba just did an interview with The Athletic interestingly saying he's working under Rangnick for lessons one a week (he signed Ba at Hoffenheim) to be a sporting director through his consultancy program. Maybe an appointment in the future in some capacity. But not as a manager

Only Fonseca linked in the piece having looked it over