Kevin Keegan

[jack j]

18 minutes ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

Has this window proved that we need this guy in a role at the club, where he can sell the vision of what Newcastle United can be to prospective signings particularly from abroad? If we are being easily beaten to signings from a Man Utd team at their lowest ebb in living memory, we need some spark from somewhere

Ffs man

He has been out of football nye on 20 years 

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

3 minutes ago, jack j said:

Ffs man

He has been out of football nye on 20 years 

I'm purely talking about him selling Newcastle to prospective signings, not taking training FFS

 

its pretty clear whoever is tasked with that job currently, Is making a fucking royal pigs ear of it!

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

10 minutes ago, JigsawGoesToPieces said:

Should be a club ambassador or something but should be nowhere near selling the vision for new signings

 

I bet anyone under 21 particularly from abroad would have no idea who he was.

I doubt they know who the fuck Jason Wilcox is either, but he clearly presented a better pitch to Sesko than Andy Howe

[Optimistic Nut]

1 minute ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

I'm purely talking about him selling Newcastle to prospective signings, not taking training FFS

 

its pretty clear whoever is tasked with that job currently, Is making a fucking royal pigs ear of it!

 

He showed Modric and his team around the training ground and he still chose Spurs. Only so much he can do. That was over 10 years after his magic spell and over 15 years ago from now. 

[Davycc]

1 minute ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

I doubt they know who the fuck Jason Wilcox is either, but he clearly presented a better pitch to Sesko than Andy Howe

Ahh Jason Wilcox ..... memories lol

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

Just now, Optimistic Nut said:

 

He showed Modric and his team around the training ground and he still chose Spurs. Only so much he can do. That was over 10 years after his magic spell and over 15 years ago from now. 

He didn’t though did he? Wise and Veterre over ruled him as they thought Modric was too short and weak for the PL

[HaydnNUFC]

NUFC das whenever Newcastle United are faced with even the mildest inconvenience:

 

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

Just now, HaydnNUFC said:

NUFC das whenever Newcastle United are faced with even the mildest inconvenience:

 

So this window is just the mildest inconvenience now then is it? 

[gdm]

4 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

He showed Modric and his team around the training ground and he still chose Spurs. Only so much he can do. That was over 10 years after his magic spell and over 15 years ago from now. 

That’s not true. One of the biggest stories of the Ashley era and part of the reason Keegan walked. How can fans get this wrong? Modric was coming Ashley and co fucked Keegan over 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by gdm

[toon25]

2 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

NUFC das whenever Newcastle United are faced with even the mildest inconvenience:

 

 

Brilliant 

[HaydnNUFC]

1 minute ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

So this window is just the mildest inconvenience now then is it? 

Keegan hasn’t been involved in football since 2008, man.  Suggesting a serious role at the club for him is just lunacy.

[gdm]

1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Keegan hasn’t been involved in football since 2008, man.  Suggesting a serious role at the club for him is just lunacy.

I think temporarily being part of negotiations wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. When keegan talks about Football people listen. We’ve no one else 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by gdm

[HaydnNUFC]

Just now, gdm said:

I think temporarily being part of negotiations wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. We’ve no one else 

That’s what a DOF is for which PIF need to hire.

Gotten 3 of the below list in the last 24 hours. God, this club is desperate.
 

On 26/07/2025 at 21:40, HaydnNUFC said:

I kna (or at least hoping in this case) it’s just shite craic but our fans with ‘bring x back’, man.
 

Bring Keegan back.

Bring Staveley back.

Bring Perez back.

Bring Rafa back.

Bring Mitrovic back.

Bring ASM back.

 

As bad as the mackem craic of bring back Baaaaaally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fak]

Just now, gdm said:

I think temporarily being part of negotiations wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. We’ve no one else 

 

I can't think of any negotiating skills Keegan has to offer for any potential signings. He might be able to romanticise about the club but most footballers these days probably won't even know who Keegan is. 

[gdm]

5 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

That’s what a DOF is for which PIF need to hire.

No shit genius. By all accounts we want the guy from Forest who isn’t going to leave mid window and if he did he’d be on gardening leave that’s why I used that special word ‘temporary’

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by gdm

[gdm]

2 minutes ago, Fak said:

 

I can't think of any negotiating skills Keegan has to offer for any potential signings. He might be able to romanticise about the club but most footballers these days probably won't even know who Keegan is. 

Yeah he only won the Ballon d'Or twice and played for a highly successful Liverpool team. 

[Fak]

Just now, gdm said:

Yeah he only won the Ballon d'Or twice and played for a highly successful Liverpool team. 

 

Yeah I'm fully aware of that. Oba Martins admitted he had no idea who Keegan was in 2008 when we appointed him as manager. 

 

Luke Shaw told Lampard he had no idea who Tony Adams was. 

[oldtype]

He's 74 years old and he's been away from football basically since most of the players we'd be interested in signing were in diapers.

 

Let the man enjoy his well-deserved retirement. 

[gdm]

Just now, Fak said:

 

Yeah I'm fully aware of that. Oba Martins admitted he had no idea who Keegan was in 2008 when we appointed him as manager. 

 

Luke Shaw told Lampard he had no idea who Tony Adams was. 

That’s your standard. Oba Martins. Regardless of who Keegan is he knows a shit load more of how football deals with than Jamie Rueben. 

[gdm]

1 minute ago, oldtype said:

He's 74 years old and he's been away from football basically since most of the players we'd be interested in signing were in diapers.

 

Let the man enjoy his well-deserved retirement. 

FWIW I agree, he said in his book he was absolutely finished with football and I’m not suggesting he come back I was just agreeing it wouldn’t be the worst idea coz we’ve pretty much nobody else 

[toontownman]

Ironic under Ashley we were begging for Keegan to be giving the gates to the kingdom to shape the club. Obviously we know Ashley took that the opposite way and where that led...

 

Now we have the reverse, where Howe seems to have been given free reign. Maybe the grass wasn't greener in this case. I guess we shall see. 

[Fak]

1 minute ago, gdm said:

That’s your standard. Oba Martins. Regardless of who Keegan is he knows a shit load more of how football deals with than Jamie Rueben. 

 

You reckon João Pedro for example knows who Keegan is? He may very well do but doubt he'd give a toss what he has to say about Newcastle when Chelsea and London are calling. 

[oldtype]

Just now, toontownman said:

Ironic under Ashley we were begging for Keegan to be giving the gates to the kingdom to shape the club. Obviously we know Ashley took that the opposite way and where that led...

 

Now we have the reverse, where Howe seems to have been given free reign. Maybe the grass wasn't greener in this case. I guess we shall see. 

 

It was also a different era where it was still just about possible for the same person to be in charge of both coaching and transfers.

 

Both jobs have become infinitely more complex now. Nobody should have to do both.

[gdm]

4 minutes ago, Fak said:

 

You reckon João Pedro for example knows who Keegan is? He may very well do but doubt he'd give a toss what he has to say about Newcastle when Chelsea and London are calling. 

Maybe not but that wasn’t really my point anyway my point was he knows football inside out. He’d been away from football for years and persuaded modric to sign for us before he got fucked over. 
 

Take Trafford for example I’ve absolutely no doubt Keegan gets that done early before Man City decided they needed a keeper 

 

it’s all hypotheticals I just said it couldn’t be worse than what we are doing now. Not that deep really 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by gdm

[oldtype]

2 minutes ago, gdm said:

Maybe not but that wasn’t really my point anyway my point was he knows football inside out. He’d been away from football for years and persuaded modric to sign for us before he got fucked over. 

 

He knows football as it existed twenty years ago (more like thirty, really) inside out. He's not qualified to be working for a professional club in 2025 in anything other than an informal ambassador capacity.

 

I don't think Joao Pedro knows who Kevin Keegan is, but I'm also not sure Kevin Keegan knows who Joao Pedro is.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by oldtype