Guardian: Shearer clears way to become Newcastle manager

[mattypnufc]

I've thought for a while now Rob Lee is on a mission, to get his mate in as Manager and himself in as a Terry McDermott type sidekick. He's poppin up everywhere, pundit, on Sunday goals thing, interview in the Mag. Talking about "we" this and "we" that. It's pretty transparent that it's a Shearer/Lee package and he's whipping up support from the fans (supposedly) so that when the club's sold they'll waltz into the job.

 

Well that's his theory.

 

Given the present state, id love the above.  As for Terry mac role...im pretty sure Rob Lee would get our midfield working.

[Segun Oluwaniyi]

I'd think we ought to get an experienced manager, or at least experienced coaches backing Shearer. I'd really would prefer it we didn't turn our coaching staff into and Newcastle United 1990's old boys club.

[Guest michaelfoster]

Alan Shearer - Manager

Assistant Manager - Mike Newell

First Team Coach - Rob Lee

First Team Coach - Chris Hughton

 

Hughton & Newell have the coaching experience & Newell & Lee are best mates with Shearer from their playing days, keep Hughton as he seems to be an ok coach & boost the coaching numbers.

[Fatwax]

Newell has taken the job at Grimsby Town, count him out 

[Guest]

Temuri Ketsbaia - Manager

Alan Shearer - Asst Manager

 

I'm sure he'd love to learn from someone with a bit of experience.

[OzzieMandias]

I used to think Shearer shouldn't be taking the job without working a while somewhere else first, but I don't feel that way anymore. So many other players of his generation have already taken the manager's job at Premiership clubs -- Keane, Southgate, Ince, Adams... you could maybe also count Hughes -- and while none of those names have really proved themselves so far, none are shaping up as disastrous choices either. Why should Shearer be any worse? At least our volatile support would have to give him some time -- a commodity no one else seems to get.

[Fatwax]

Hmmm, people say that we never give our managers time but to be fair we've rarely hounded out a manager that wasn't being detrimental to the team... Roeder, Souness & Allardyce as examples.

 

My memory is a little hazy on Dalgleish & Gullit, maybe one of the older supporters would like to properly fill me in but as I remember it one of them dismantled Keegans excellent team and the other fell out with Shearer and Lee.. infact didn't Gullit walk or is my memory on the blink again?

[OzzieMandias]

Sir Bobby was given time. Keegan Mk II would have been but didn't give himself time.

[toontownman]

shearer and lee, but only if speed returns aswell! if the former two do return then i hope either kinnear stays around or another old head is brought into the set up.

[Guest sicko2ndbest]

TAKE THE TOON JOB ON, ALAN 

Express

Wednesday November 19,2008

By Bill Bradshaw There is no question that Alan Shearer will be asked to manage his beloved Newcastle United. The only debate is when…and by whom.

 

That day moved a significant step closer this week when Shearer’s former Newcastle team-mate and long-time confidant Rob Lee said he “firmly believed he would [take the job] tomorrow” if the club’s circumstances were right.

 

So will he accept? Will he make the move from Match of the Day studio pundit back into football’s front line? Will he swap the perceived comfort zone of TV for the madhouse of management?

 

If one man knows about this dilemma it is Britain’s top TV football analyst and expert commentator Andy Gray. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Express, Gray said it was a challenge he hoped Shearer would grab.

 

Gray spoke to Everton about taking the manager’s job at Goodison Park in 1997. Like Shearer, he was a former centre-forward at the club concerned; like Shearer, he was loved by the fans and, like Shearer, he had carved out a new career in television.

 

“This is the biggest dilemma Alan Shearer will have to cope with,” said Gray. “Does he want his whole life to change overnight? Will he mind not playing the golf he loves so much? Will he mind not having the time off he can now enjoy with his family? Is he ready to forget about having no real pressure?

 

“Because being a football manager is 24-7. He’ll be about the club all the time and he can forget golf; forget trips to his house in Portugal for most of the year and he can forget about seeing his family except at nights.

 

“Alan, for sure, does not need the money that managing Newcastle will bring. So he can base his decision purely and simply on answering one question: Do I really want this? I hope he does, I really do.

 

“TV will always be there, he can always go back to it and I’ve said the same thing to Jamie Redknapp at Sky, especially now that his Dad, Harry, has the job he has at Spurs.

 

“Jamie and Alan are about the same age, the right age. If they want to go back into the game, they should do it.”

 

If there is just a hint of regret in Gray’s words that he did not become Everton’s manager 11 years ago, he confirms that is the case.

 

“The chances of me ever managing a team now recede with each passing year,” he says. “I’m 52 and if I don’t manage a club then in years to come when my grand-children ask me about football, I guess I will have a slight regret about not doing it. But my situation was slightly different to Alan’s.

 

“He’s 38 now and the right age. I was in my 40s and I’d been doing Sky Sports for seven years or so and it was a fantastic job. And I was in a domestic situation where I only saw my daughter at weekends. For me, Everton was the right club at the wrong time.

 

“I knew what I was getting into. I had been assistant manager at Aston Villa to Ron Atkinson and I’d loved that.

 

“I loved being with the players, getting involved in coaching and going into the club every day.”

 

Back in 1997, it was not simply a case of Gray taking the bait of an improved deal with Sky. The Everton post, which he was minded to take, was never actually formally offered after the job was talked through.

 

“When I heard that Everton wanted to talk to me, I was flying,” said Gray, who enjoyed two fabulous seasons as the club’s marauding centre-forward between 1983-85.

 

“If they had said ‘here’s the contract, sign it’, I would have done. My heart would have ruled my head.

 

“I saw the chairman, Peter Johnson, with a couple of members of the board in the Wirral and we spoke for two to three hours. They wanted to know, hypothetically, what I’d do as Everton’s manager.

 

“When I left that meeting to go to La Manga for a break I was totally convinced I’d be the next Everton boss.”

 

But as days went by and press leaks of the private meeting got back to Gray, he became uneasy.

 

He was unsure whether Johnson was prepared to fund his plans for the team.

 

Friends and fellow professionals also told him he “must be mad” to exchange the security of Sky for the hot seat at Everton. In the end, with no formal offer forthcoming, he stayed where he was.

 

“That is why I totally understand Rob Lee saying that Alan would take the Newcastle job if the club is ‘how he wants it’. That is right. It has to be right,” says Gray. “But if it is, I do hope he takes it on.

 

“I think for people like Alan – and Jamie Redknapp – if you really love the game then this is the right time to take the plunge.”

 

 

[Cronky]

I'm pretty sure that this issue of the intrusion into his personal life is the main reason why Shearer has hesitated to go into management. If or when he takes the plunge, he wants to be sure that it'll be worth the sacrifice.

 

Trouble is, there are no guarantees. I'd worry that he may be reluctant to put in the hours needed, or get disillusioned when he faces setbacks.

[TRon]

It's a win-win situation if it's true.

 

If he comes in, does well, and we start progressing we're laughing tea cakes.

 

If he comes in and does shite then it gets him out of the system for good.

 

You're assuming that after he does shite, we'll still be in the Premiership.

 

Even if he's no great shakes, anyone who makes him manager will have to give him decent backing, so there's a fair chance he'll do ok. I was never a big fan of Shearer when he was here as a player but I would like to see him get a crack as manager. He's a born leader and unless he's completely clueless should be able to harness the support and move the club forward.

 

Why? Not being arsey, would just be nice to hear this side of the Shearer opinion spectrum from a respectable poster... i was surprised when i read that.

 

I thought someone would pull me on that. A couple of reasons neither of which were really his fault. Shearer wasn't quite the same player after his two operations and he didn't have the explosive running he had at Sothampton. Similar to Owen not being the same player he was at Liverpool. Being great players, they both have enough ability to be an asset anyway.

 

The other problem was with us having Shearer in the side everthing tended to go through him, balls lumped long up filed for him to scrap for. I think the only time he really looked effective in his later years was with Bellamy next to him.

 

In any case, as a manager I think he has all the qualities to do a great job, inexperience or not. He'd be my choice if it was up to me.

[NG32]

Will he or wont he!

[Thespence]

By Bill Bradshaw There is no question that Alan Shearer will be asked to manage his beloved Newcastle United.

 

That word often appears in front of Newcastle United.

[biggs]

I'm pretty sure that this issue of the intrusion into his personal life is the main reason why Shearer has hesitated to go into management. If or when he takes the plunge, he wants to be sure that it'll be worth the sacrifice.

 

Trouble is, there are no guarantees. I'd worry that he may be reluctant to put in the hours needed, or get disillusioned when he faces setbacks.

Imho Shearer has never came across as a quitter and he knows what he is taking on with the toon and everything that goes with it media etc .He comes across determined and talks the talk will have a good knowledge of and know a good player when he sees one as his pundit work helps in that respect .

[Ketsbaia]

my friend is mates with one of shearer's daughters and apparantly he wouldnt consider a job until both daughters were at uni. dunno how true that is.

[Guest]

Shearer as manager, Andy Gray assistant.

 

I've always wondered how he'd do as a manager actually.

[Guest mackas86]

been watching the betting markets all day and the odds for shearer have shortened quite a bit, just wondering if something is a happening at sjp, looking forward to the statement following the chelski game

[Nobody]

been watching the betting markets all day and the odds for shearer have shortened quite a bit, just wondering if something is a happening at sjp, looking forward to the statement following the chelski game

Joe Kinnear has been given a new contract that stretches until Jan 1.

"I'm happy to get to keep doing this. We've done well so far, still haven't lost at home" Said Kinnear.

"I've been informed that due diligence is being done, or is going to start soon, and we should know more after the new year", Kinnear continued.

[Fatwax]

Shearer as manager, Andy Gray assistant.

 

I've always wondered how he'd do as a manager actually.

 

He'd blame the referee alot.

 

And as for this statement that's supposed to be making an appearance after the Chelsea thrashing, I have no doubt in my mind that it'll be nothing but negative bullshit that'll probably lead to N-O needing a new server.

[Guest nufc_kev]

Shearer as manager, Andy Gray assistant.

 

I've always wondered how he'd do as a manager actually.

 

We'd be the best bow'ing team in the league.

 

Every five minutes at training "Take a boooooo son, just take a booooo. You just don't save those. Och"

[Guest sicko2ndbest]

He's at the england game tonight

[johnnypd]

Alan Shearer - Manager

Assistant Manager - Mike Newell

First Team Coach - Rob Lee

First Team Coach - Chris Hughton

 

Hughton & Newell have the coaching experience & Newell & Lee are best mates with Shearer from their playing days, keep Hughton as he seems to be an ok coach & boost the coaching numbers.

 

obviously speculating but i think shearer wouldnt just fill the ranks with his mates but would go with experience, experts he can delegate certain tasks like training to. maybe get someone like venables as assitant.

[Liam Liam Liam O]

Andy Gray can dress it up how he likes, but he bottled the opportunity to put his money where his mouth was & take the Everton job.

[Mick]

Shearer has never been offered our job, I think he'd take it if offered and for the first time I wouldn't mind him getting it.