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I think Steve Bruce could do a job for us!

Again tho, could see him wanting it under the circumstances

 

That job would be cleaning the fucking bins.

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Alan Shearer as player manager (He's still better than Ameobi and Smith).

 

Either that or Nobby Solano :D

 

Fat Ash will probably get Steven Carr in though with Babayaro as his assistant. Atleast it gets rid of Terry Mac...

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Would Poyet even take the job? I'm not sure

He's having a key role at Tottenham, in charge of a lot of the training set up and as a young coach learning from an excellent experienced manager.

It'd be a killer for his career at this point to go to Newcastle and be a failure.

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Zico and D' OL though I'm really past caring anymore:

 

 

Alan Shearer not in the running for United job

 

Sep 5 2008 by Alan Oliver, Evening Chronicle

 

ALAN SHEARER, the No 1 choice of many fans to replace Kevin Keegan, will NOT be returning to St James’s Park.

 

Mike Ashley is looking for a big name, and talks from leading agents today insist that Zico is a possibility, however far-fetched that would seem.

 

But there has to be a big chance that Dennis Wise’s big mate Gus Poyet will be installed as the next coach of United.

 

I use the word coach because as long as Wise is director of football the next incumbent will not be allowed to manage in the true English way.

 

However, the chances of Wise himself moving across to a managerial role looks remote, such is the hostility towards him from the United fans.

 

There is no-one in the world capable of replacing Keegan, but the nearest in my view is undoubtedly Shearer.

 

I travelled down to London on the train with Shearer on Saturday morning and his love for the club he graced for so long was so abundantly clear.

 

But Ashley had the chance to bring the legendary striker back to St James’s Park in January when he sacked Sam Allardcye – and he passed that chance up.

 

As a result, there is no way I can see Shearer coming back as long as the current regime is still there.

 

And while leading agents tell me they have been asked to track down Zico has to be the longest of long shots. But he certainly is a big name and, after Pele, he is considered probably the greatest player in Brazil’s history with 88 caps.

 

At 55, he is two years younger than Keegan and has experienced club management with Fenerbahce since 2006, although he is now a free agent.

 

But coaching in Newcastle is different to Turkey.

 

However, it is not a surprise that Wise’s sidekick Poyet has been installed as favourite to replace Keegan.

 

For me, Kevin’s replacement is always going to be one of Wise’s close friends from his Chelsea days like Poyet, Gianluca Vialli or Gianfranco Zola.

 

It could also be a coach from La Liga bearing in mind vice-president Tony Jimenez’s Spanish roots.

 

Poyet is a neighbour of Jimenez in London and, to be fair to the Uruguyan, he has looked the business in his back-up roles at Leeds United and now Spurs.

 

But he is tarnished by his association with Wise and if he does decide to swap White Hart Lane for St James’s Park then life early on will be extremely difficult for him.

 

Another outsider for the job will be David O’Leary – mainly because he is a big pal of United managing director Derek Llambias.

 

Indeed, O’Lleary was the guest of Llambias at The Emirates on Saturday.

 

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