Kevin Keegan

[gdm]

Just now, oldtype said:

 

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.

And Jamie Rueben & Andy Howe is?

[oldtype]

Just now, gdm said:

And Jamie Rueben & Andy Howe is?

Yes, shortcomings notwithstanding (frankly I don't know either of them well enough to assess), both of them are objectively a thousand times more qualified than 74 year old Kevin Keegan.

[gdm]

Just now, oldtype said:

Yes, shortcomings notwithstanding (frankly I don't know either of them well enough to assess), both of them are objectively a thousand times more qualified than 74 year old Kevin Keegan.

I don’t think Jamie Rueben has a single clue how to do the role of director of football. Mentioning Keegan’s age is weird. It’s fine to say he’s been out of football for many years. His age is irrelevant 

[Fak]

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. 
 

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

 

 

 

 

It's probably about 20 years since Keegan last signed a player (deliberately not including any of the signings we made under Keegan whilst Ashley was here as I very much doubt he wanted many or any of them). The game and the players has moved on a lot in that time. I reckon Keegan would be like a fish out of a water trying to buy a player these days, what with players and agents being extra pampered and wanting X, Y and Z in their contracts as well as numerous clauses and whatever else. 

 

At 74 he probably just can't be arsed with any of it. 

 

 

[bobbydazzla]

Even at 74 he’d be a better addition to the 1st team than Dominic Calvert-Lewin

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by bobbydazzla

[Optimistic Nut]

9 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. 
 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

[gdm]

Just now, Fak said:

 

It's probably about 20 years since Keegan last signed a player (deliberately not including any of the signings we made under Keegan whilst Ashley was here as I very much doubt he wanted many or any of them). The game and the players has moved on a lot in that time. I reckon Keegan would be like a fish out of a water trying to buy a player these days, what with players and agents being extra pampered and wanting X, Y and Z in their contracts as well as numerous clauses and whatever else. 

 

At 74 he probably just can't be arsed with any of it. 

 

 

Jesus Christ you do know I wasn’t actually suggesting we call up Keegan and give him a job? I know he’s done with football. I read his book and he made it very clear his book was a goodbye to football.
 

Point is we need someone because this has been embarrassing and honestly setting us back years 

[Fak]

1 minute ago, gdm said:

Jesus Christ you do know I wasn’t actually suggesting we call up Keegan and give him a job? I know he’s done with football. I read his book and he made it very clear his book was a goodbye to football.
 

Point is we need someone because this has been embarrassing and honestly setting us back years 

 

Oh my bad. Just when you said there was nobody else I thought you were suggesting it as a genuine idea. 

[oldtype]

We obviously need someone because right now we have nobody, but I just don’t see how Kevin Keegan is remotely relevant to that conversation.

[gdm]

Just now, Optimistic Nut said:

 

 

he’s hardly going to say well actually I was edging towards Newcastle until that fat sports direct guy and his poison dwarf put a stop to it because they thought I was too lightweight is he?

 

honestly man. Get up Keegan’s quotes on it. It was done till wise got involved 

[gdm]

1 minute ago, Fak said:

 

Oh my bad. Just when you said there was nobody else I thought you were suggesting it as a genuine idea. 

Nah, purely hypothetical. Dunno if you’ve read it but the chapters in Keegan’s book on the spell under Ashley is really sad. It extinguished any light Keegan had left for football  

[gdm]

7 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

 

 

 

Reflecting at a Q&A event later, Keegan said: “We tried to sign Modrić. Modrić’s agent was a massive fan of mine and he was about to sign for Spurs. He hopped on a train to Newcastle and all we had to do was sell the club to him. Mr Jimenez said I’ve watched him, I don’t think he is big enough or strong enough to play in the Premier League. That was the end of that, he killed it stone‑dead.”

 

[bobbydazzla]

17 minutes ago, gdm said:

Nah, purely hypothetical. Dunno if you’ve read it but the chapters in Keegan’s book on the spell under Ashley is really sad. It extinguished any light Keegan had left for football  

@Fak quipped: why buy a book when you can join the library?

[Fak]

5 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

@Fak quipped: why buy a book when you can join the library?

 

I've always said that. 

[Kid Icarus]

We've reached this stage of the transfer window then

[Paully]

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

15 minutes ago, Paully said:

 

What a day. Stands as my lasting memory of the old Gallowgate end. 

[relámpago blanco]

Bring him back to handle player negotiations.

[jack j]

Thought he was getting the man u job

[Irish Paul]

10 hours ago, Paully said:

 

Brilliant 😍😍😍

 

Had never seen that before. Love the way he deals with the streaker.

[Toon1984]

19 hours ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

What a day. Stands as my lasting memory of the old Gallowgate end. 

I was in the scoreboard. Lost my voice for 2 days after.

[PauloGeordio]

9 hours ago, Irish Paul said:

Brilliant 😍😍😍

 

Had never seen that before. Love the way he deals with the streaker.

That is 

[TheBrownBottle]

On 07/08/2025 at 04:37, gdm said:

he’s hardly going to say well actually I was edging towards Newcastle until that fat sports direct guy and his poison dwarf put a stop to it because they thought I was too lightweight is he?

 

honestly man. Get up Keegan’s quotes on it. It was done till wise got involved 

It was Tony Jimenez that KK blamed for the Modric farce - 'he's not strong enough for English football' is what he opined to Modric's agent

[TheBrownBottle]

Tony Jimenez's working relationship with Ashley didn't have an extended run either:

 

https://www.cityam.com/warrant-issued-against-ex-newcastle-united-chief-for-failing-to-pay-mike-ashley/

[Jack14Bojangles]

I live just outside Hamburg, and Kevin Keegan has become a legend in Hamburg. When I was a teenager, he was my hero.

He played for Hamburg from 1977 to 1980. A great player. I wish him all the best. 

 

I remember buying the single "Head over heels in Love" back then.
Listen and watch: Musikladen (1979)

 

The single became a top ten hit in Germany and is considered one of the few successful performances by professional footballers as singers.

 

 

Edited October 8, 2025 by Jack14Bojangles