Ste Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Doubt any of the players are in the loop with this. Would be the same as if your own boss at work was under fire, no one tells the employees but you can tell something is going on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 The longer it drags on the more damaging it becomes. It is obvious they are looking for someone else because they have not come out in support of McClaren. What message does that send to the players? They obviously have no respect for him as it is and will have even less now. Even if McClaren ends up staying now (because they couldn't get anyone else), it is obvious the club (bar Charnley have lost faith in him). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 The only really surprising thing is that people are still surprised at how much of a clusterfuck these incompetent twats can make of absolutely anything. They genuinely have no idea what they're doing, and why would they, none of them are even remotely qualified to be running a Premier League football club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes_End_Mag Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 The fact that the club felt the need to draw up its own statement giving McClaren some backing and then claiming it was from the players, without their knowledge and who then turned in that performancr, tells you everything about how far apart the players are from pulling in the same direction as the manager. We could quite easily be relegated with 2 or 3 games to go if he stays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 What's the point in hanging on to him even if we can't get anyone? Worst that happens is we get relegated and that'll happen anyway if he stays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Some lad on Tw@tter claims Cisse says Steve aint getting sacked. Cisse probably isn't sure which one McClaren is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Still here eh? Well i'll be dipped in shit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awaymag Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 the reason they are hanging is due to Charnley. If he sacks McLaren then he is admitting he screwed it up. In his self preservation warped mind he is hoping that it can be turned around with McLaren in charge so he keep hold of his job!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Well yes maybe Charnley won't want to push McClaren out the door as he was the one who appointed him. I think Charnley should take this chance to sack McClaren and get a really good manager in to secure his own ass. Stay with McClaren and the pair will be jobless in May. Sack McClaren and appoint a cheap option ala Pearson, if we are still relegated, that makes two horrendous decisions on Charnley's part. So he better make the best, logical decision or else he'll be out the door too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stal Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I am thinking there hasn't been an announcement because the board have decided there is nothing wrong and if theres nothing wrong, why would they make a statement? Not buying for time, I reckon concur has helped him come up with that strategy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I'm pretty sure Charnley has failed either way... not sure keeping McClaren and getting relegated is going to help him look good. At least if he acts now he can say he tried to save the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I am thinking there hasn't been an announcement because the board have decided there is nothing wrong and if theres nothing wrong, why would they make a statement? Not buying for time, I reckon concur has helped him come up with that strategy. Yep, it's their usual "just ignore it and it goes away" strategy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 If he sacks McClaren, who's he gonna bring in with the ten bob available? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Concur still makes me laugh[emoji38] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Toon Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 What people are forgetting is that we've never heard Charnley speak and for all we know he may sound like Mr Bean. It would explain a helluva lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Some lad on Tw@tter claims Cisse says Steve aint getting sacked. If there's anything we know for sure, it's that Cisse is one dumb motherfucker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulivye Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 argh! isn't there some sort of Tyneside Mafia that could send Luca Brasi to make them an offer they can't refuse?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 What people are forgetting is that we've never heard Charnley speak and for all we know he may sound like Mr Bean. It would explain a helluva lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElCid Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Would take all twitter rumours with a pinch of salt to be honest - I've just been told by a lad I know who knows someone at the Training ground (and is usual a pretty good source) that Moyes is there and he has put 200 knicker based on that info. I just asked well I'm not saying it's wrong but then how would the media not have seen him as they are camped out there. People are either making up things or going off some supposed in the know info when nothing is going to happen imho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoli Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Charnley doesn't want to sack McClaren, as he would have to resign too. That's what this is all about. The longer it drags on, the bigger fools the owner, and his puppets will look. National media certainly going for it since the weekend. This. Ashley gave him the freedom to make this hire. Charnley must go too. Serious conflict of interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Seriously still nothing, fuck me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Seriously still nothing, fuck me Are you serious? You've been telling the entire forum for months that everything's fine, we're playing good football and just a little unlucky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Little Waster Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Time for a song : ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Charnley doesn't want to sack McClaren, as he would have to resign too. That's what this is all about. The longer it drags on, the bigger fools the owner, and his puppets will look. National media certainly going for it since the weekend. This. Ashley gave him the freedom to make this hire. Charnley must go too. Serious conflict of interest. Charnley has failed either way, so it's better for him to act now and at least try to save the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cort Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/08/newcastle-steve-mcclaren-clings-job-rafael-benitez?CMP=share_btn_tw Steve McClaren continues to cling on as Newcastle United’s manager but is well aware that directors have made contact with representatives of Rafael Benítez and are also interested in hearing what David Moyes and Brendan Rodgers might offer the relegation threatened club. Lee Charnley, Newcastle’s managing director, refuses to be rushed into sacking McClaren. Indeed the former England coach is regarded as a backstop option capable of remaining in charge if it proves impossible to broker a deal with a high profile replacement. With time – and games – running out for Newcastle to escape the bottom three, it is hoped the switch can be negotiated ahead of Monday night’s trip to Leicester City, the leaders, but Mike Ashley, the owner, will not sanction a change unless the new appointment is a definite “upgrade” on McClaren. The board are believed to want to hire a replacement capable of exciting deeply disgruntled supporters and have effectively ruled Nigel Pearson, the former Leicester manager and Harry Redknapp out of the running. Even so, they accept that persuading Benítez - or Moyes or Rodgers - to try and rescue them from the Championship may prove easier said than done. They are however believed to be ready to offer the new manager appreciably increased autonomy in the recruitment sphere. After several years of struggle under Alan Pardew, John Carver and now McClaren there is a recognition that the club’s overall strategy and managerial model requires some radical modification if things are to improve. There is also an appreciation that the current crisis - Newcastle are second bottom after losing five of their last six games - is not purely the current manager’s fault but instead reflects far wider, systemic problems. Considerable soul searching allied to potential root and branch reform apparently beckons this summer. As a man, McClaren is liked and admired by Charnley, Graham Carr, the chief scout and Bob Moncur, the club ambassador and there is considerable sympathy for the position of a coach who took training on Tuesday morning and is due to repeat the exercise on Wednesday morning. There is though an acceptance that McClaren is struggling to get the best out of a challenging, high maintenance, multi- national squad and that a manager in the Benítez mould could well provoke a much better response from a set of under-achieving players. Although he stands to lose countless millions in television revenue alone should Newcastle be relegated, Ashley - heavily reliant on advice from Keith Bishop, a London0based public relations executive and a key confidant - remains notorious for driving a hard bargain. Should negotiations with a potential successor or successors prove awkward or protracted the sports retail tycoon would have no compunction about leaving McClaren - who has made it clear he will not resign - to take charge of the team at Leicester. After the meeting with Claudio Ranieri’s side comes a vital north east derby at home to key relegation rivals Sunderland who have won the last six Tyne-Wear derbies. Then, after the international break, Newcastle visit similarly troubled Norwich City. Directors hope to have made a change by then but their failure to make significant progress on an appointment dictated that a state of damaging limbo endured and a planned meeting between McClaren and Charnley never took place on Tuesday afternoon. If and when it happens, dismissing McClaren will represent a personal failure for Newcastle’s managing director, who regarded McClaren as the “perfect fit” when he appointed him last summer and has spent the last few months desperately hoping the 54-year-old could turn things around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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