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I don't think people have said he is the best manager ever BUT he is ahead of SBR for me

 

Agreed - SBR was just as interested in money as KK ever was, hence the reason he turned SJH down when he was asked to take over from KK after he resigned in 97....SBR knew Barca were going to fire him and appoint LVG, but he wanted the pay-off. It was the second time he turned NUFC down as he was asked to be manager after Joe Harvey in 1975 when he was at Ipswich but refused again.

He may have had good reasons but the fact that he turned us down twice takes away any claim he may have had to be on a par with KK ; SBR was a self-confessed fan from boyhood too but he was past his best as a manager by the time he joined us although he did a great job in stabilizing the ship after Gullit. He was almost as old as Harry Redknapp is now and nobody on here would dream of having Redknapp as manager.

 

You fucking what? Considering he said it was out of a sense of loyalty, that's a shocker if you can back that up.

 

He said if he knew how badly he'd be fucked over in the future by Barcelona he'd have taken the job. There was a large release clause (double his wages for 18 months) which we met it and matched his wages but Nunez said "Nobody leaves Barcelona. We sack people, they don't sack us" which ended everything.

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Guest firetotheworks

i absolutely love what Keegan did for us, was all great times along with the timing, best ride newcastle ever had on the crest of that wave, Football was changing, the Champions league was developing and the premier leaugue money was just starting to become something big. hell, even blackburn won the leaugue. however some of the levels of love keegan gets on here at times is OTT imo. SBR gave us more direction and stability. some folk on here have even said Keegan was the best man ever to be associated with us and sould have a stand/statue, what about Joe Harvey?

 

I grew up with KK, from player to manager and as much as i loved him, both times, he wasn't the best manager ever, nor was he completely blameless. some of the commwnts i've read on here, well no wonder we get some of the stick from other fans

 

 

 

Tbf, that just reads like you simply don't know about the things that he did for the club when he came back as manager. I loved SBR and there's no real need for the comparison, but saying that SBR gave us more direction and stability is frankly wrong. You're talking about a man that took us from within a whisker of the third tier, to within a whisker of the Premier League title within 4 years. Keegan is the reason that we're an established Premier League club and the reason why we were big enough to call upon SBR in the first place.

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'It's my opinion' is always the mark of a dullard, like. You hear it and read it all the time on things like The Wright Stuff, Questiontime, Daily Mail comments, Jeremy Kyle.

 

Basically it's the way that idiots justify themselves. It's often a thing that racists say, for example.

 

 

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Guest John Carvery

It's a shame that you didn't lose to Germany...in either of the World Wars.

It's amazing how pointing out some facts can make people say the stupidest things. If anyone thinks keegan was better than sbr they need to get real. Messiah ffs.

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