Varadi Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Cronky every opinion you've got is fucking terrible It's almost like he's doing it on purpose... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 No surprise, I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but the big question in my mind is - Did he think that doing that interview just before today's crucial game was going to help the situation? It's hardly going to make it worse. Fuckwit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 One of us. Whoever buys us in the future, speak to this man and listen to what he has to say and then act on it, guaranteed result in terms of a United NUFC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Cronky every opinion you've got is fucking terrible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Kevin Keegan believes that Mike Ashley’s “bullish” interview is a hint that the Newcastle United owner has a new head coach already lined up. The former Toon boss identified Michael Laudrup as his own personal preferred choice but feels that Ashley’s rare public interview should be encouragement that big changes are around the corner. Keegan, speaking to beIN sports, said: “I think he’s got somebody lined up as he was quite bullish in the interview. I’ve got a feeling with the way he was talking before the game, he’s already got someone. “I would put Michael Laudrup top of my list. What that would do is guarantee a certain type of football. What he did at Swansea is something the Newcastle fans want. They want to be entertained.” And Keegan feels that Ashley can win back over those fans that are against him. He said: “Ashley has got the money. If someone could just explain to him that if you get this right, everything that’s been against you, it will swing full circle. “He had people between him and me that he didn’t need. I told him that. That’s why it didn’t work. I know the guy who he’s got running the club - Lee Charnley - and he needs someone else with more experience.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 No surprise, I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but the big question in my mind is - Did he think that doing that interview just before today's crucial game was going to help the situation? I hadn't even seen this before I slaughtered you in the other thread. Go somewhere else. You are shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 So is that Keegan sort of defending Ashley? It's been mentioned by a few people that our problems are to do with people surrounding Ashley and not actually Ashley. Aahley has to put his money where his mouth is, that's something I doubt he will do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 It's a moot point because Ashley distanced himself from any responsibility for day-to-day football matters in his interview today. It would be a moot point regardless as the guy's never told the truth in his entire life. Pressure needs to be higher than ever from here on in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 No surprise, I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but the big question in my mind is - Did he think that doing that interview just before today's crucial game was going to help the situation? The big question in my mind is whether you're either a WUM or a prick, which is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 A person who appears to be able to string 2 words together and has followed football since the War that can't stand Keegan but loves Ashley, Pardew et al must be a WUM. But aye, maybe a prick. I'm not usually quite this strong about these things but honestly man, fuck off. Club's dying a death and you're all over it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Shades of vintage IP hatred there like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 So is that Keegan sort of defending Ashley? It's been mentioned by a few people that our problems are to do with people surrounding Ashley and not actually Ashley. Aahley has to put his money where his mouth is, that's something I doubt he will do. It's Keegan outlining why he feels his second stint didn't work out. Ashley wouldn't spend his money, and Keegan didn't have the free access to the owner that he had under Sir John Hall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Little Waster Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 People like Ashley surround themselves with yesmen and cunts on purpose .... They can always be hung out to dry whilst he gets onwith the important business of sweating money out of the club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 It's a moot point because Ashley distanced himself from any responsibility for day-to-day football matters in his interview today. It would be a moot point regardless as the guy's never told the truth in his entire life. Pressure needs to be higher than ever from here on in. Ashley is a coward, he distanced himself from the negatives and tried to claim that he was responsible for our financial position when it's others who are responsible for that if he has as little input as he tried to claim. Yes he's loaned the club money but that isn't the reason we have £millions in the bank. The reason we have money in the bank is because we haven't spent it, unless he's claiming it on the grounds that he hasn't taken his loans back in full. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 So is that Keegan sort of defending Ashley? It's been mentioned by a few people that our problems are to do with people surrounding Ashley and not actually Ashley. Aahley has to put his money where his mouth is, that's something I doubt he will do. It's Keegan outlining why he feels his second stint didn't work out. Ashley wouldn't spend his money, and Keegan didn't have the free access to the owner that he had under Sir John Hall. He doesn't need to explain why his second stint didn't work out, the tribunal did that when they said he and the fans had been repeatedly lied to, idiot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 I think there was a time where Bob wasn't a WUM. That time has definitely passed. Stop biting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Ashley needs to make Keegan our MD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Ashley needs to make Keegan our MD. The daft thing is, despite all the bad blood I still think Keegan would come back if Ashley apologised and requested him to return. It's not going to happen though, the truth is Keegan and Ashley are planets apart when it comes to transfer policy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 I want Keegan nowhere this disaster mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianovthetoon Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Keegan as director of football IF he is given certain assurances. We know that he's got principles therefore it's highly unlikely but if Ashley genuinely wants to get it right he couldn't go far wrong by appointing someone who knows the club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 I honestly think Keegan wouldn't want to be director of football, he'd want to be the manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Ashley needs to make Keegan our MD. The daft thing is, despite all the bad blood I still think Keegan would come back if Ashley apologised and requested him to return. It's not going to happen though, the truth is Keegan and Ashley are planets apart when it comes to transfer policy. what on earth leads you to that conclusion? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Ashley needs to make Keegan our MD. The daft thing is, despite all the bad blood I still think Keegan would come back if Ashley apologised and requested him to return. It's not going to happen though, the truth is Keegan and Ashley are planets apart when it comes to transfer policy. what on earth leads you to that conclusion? It was a hypothetical scenario where Ashley would change how he operates. Obviously that's not going to happen so it's all pie in the sky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-uniteds-most-memorable-managers-9410727 Keegan Kevin Keegan was an outrageous gamble that spectacularly hit the button. He may have been England skipper with a frizzy perm who finished his distinguished playing career by leading Newcastle to promotion but Keegan had never managed a fish and chip shop never mind a top football club. He had lived out of the country in Marbella since retirement many years before whiling his days away playing golf and lazing in the sun. KK had lost touch with the current football scene back home. His contacts were severely limited, his knowledge and capability to mould a bunch of players into a fighting force unknown. Yet United, in the depths of despair, turned not to the safest of targets but a little fella with a trigger temperament and a controversial as well as charismatic personality. Sure, Keegan’s impact would be immediate given the way he had wowed Geordies during his two years as a player but once the honeymoon was over then what? I’ll tell you what – the birth of the Entertainers and a glory charge from the cusp of the old Third Division to Premier League runners-up. The rise was so swift, so sudden, as to give you a nose bleed. However it was a great coming together of minds and spirit. Sir John Hall, backed by go-getters like his son Douglas and Freddie Fletcher, fitted perfectly with Keegan’s flamboyance which fitted like a glove with the dreams of success starved Geordies. It was the right time, right place, and right people. Keegan was like riding a bucking bronco – exciting, dangerous, unpredictable, glorious, heart stopping. He was a handful all right, but it was worth taking the risk as long as you were prepared for the occasional fall as well as growing success. Keegan may have been the greatest self-promoter I have ever met, the most willing to integrate with the fans, and a tub-thumper par excellence but he could also spit out the dummy. I saw it at firsthand on many occasions. Terry McDermott spent more time on the motorway bringing back a departing Kevin than he did putting out the cones on the training pitch! Like so many others I had my ups and downs with a temperamental centre stage star. I was close enough to him to regularly share a stage during a series of talk-ins yet when a player he tried to stop the sales of a book I’d written about him which he had originally given permission for me to do. I always thought he worried over my ability to gain the ear of Sir John having worked with Hall’s Magpie Group for two years. However when he did hold court every word was like a drop of water on a parched tongue and in any case results were so spectacular I could forgive him anything. The strength of Keegan was that he was in complete control of player purchases which is why when he fleetingly returned under Mike Ashley and it wasn’t a coming together of like minds he was off quicker than Usain Bolt chasing a rabbit. Having been told who to sign by Dennis Wise a shocked KK ran all the way to see a solicitor and see Ashley in a Premier League court. No one of course could argue with the players Keegan brought in during the early nineties...Peter Beardsley, David Ginola, Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand, Philippe Albert, Rob Lee, Tino Asprilla and Alan Shearer were entertainers as well as winners, though it must be said that Hall willingly put up the money to purchase them. United’s record transfer fee was smashed time and again until a world record £15m was paid to bring Shearer home. The success, you see, not only required a leader with the vision of Keegan but an owner who would fully back him. Again as with Joe Harvey more than two decades before this United manager was never a coach. If it had been up to him he would have played five-a-side all day long. What KK cleverly did, though, was open United’s training ground at Durham to the punters with Derek Fazackerly and others organising the sessions. More than 3,000 would turn up just to watch Newcastle train. That bond with the fans is so, so different to what we have today. The punters believed and trusted him. He was able to sell United’s record goalscorer Andy Cole to Manchester United and stand on the steps of St James’ Park asking worried Toon followers to believe in him. Can you imagine Alan Pardew doing that? Or Ashley? Trust him they did and they were rewarded by the signings of Ferdinand and Shearer! FAMOUS QUOTES “It’s not like it said in the brochure” – when first walking out on managing United. “I’d love it, love it” – losing control on telly when asked about beating Fergie to the title as Newcastle sacrificed a 12 point lead. “What’s his job? He’s my goffer” – surprising everyone by bringing a non coach Terry McDermott onto his backroom staff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 6 minutes in. Just such belief Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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