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Had we done the right thing, the thing that Alex Ferguson does at Old Trafford, or Wenger at the Emirates, or Rafa at Anfield, had we moved an aging striker no longer fit for regular Premiership football on and replaced him with a suitable, younger alternative based on ability, attributes, good scouting and some common sense, we'd not be in the mess we are today.

 

:lol: Shearer to blame for NUFC relegation.  Christ.

Where the fuck do you draw that conclusion from?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/25/alan-shearer-mike-ashley-newcastle

Alan Shearer will meet Mike Ashley tomorrow to try to thrash out an agreement which would see him sign a four-year contract as Newcastle United's manager.

 

Before signing Shearer will drive a hard bargain with the owner of the newly relegated club. While Ashley has placed a deal running until 2013 on the table, the former England captain seems set to demand total autonomy over recruitment, a radical backroom revamp and a significant transfer budget.

 

After failing to prevent the team from dropping into the Championship during his eight-game stay, Shearer will inform Ashley that the club require root-and-branch reform and advise the owner to help fund an immediate return to the Premier League by making a further investment, possibly as much as £30m.

 

While the legal loose ends of Shearer's contract may not be tied up overnight, he has stressed the need for Ashley and his managing director, Derek Llambias, to act quickly. "Newcastle needs to be filled with people who love this club," he said. "The problem we've already got is that we're lagging behind the other Championship teams who have already started preparing for next season. Newcastle will be a huge scalp for the whole of the Championship and we're up against it already so big decisions need to be made and need to be made soon. I will give my opinions to the men in charge and then it's up to them to see where they want to go."

 

Changes behind the scenes are expected to include the replacement of the senior coaches Chris Hughton and Colin Calderwood with John Carver. Until recently the manager of Toronto FC in Canada, Carver was extremely highly rated by Ruud Gullit and Sir Bobby Robson while serving as first-team coach under their charge. It is thought Carver's sudden resignation from Toronto and recent return to Tyneside are not entirely coincidental.

 

Shearer also appears ready to create a role for his tactically astute former Newcastle and England team-mate Rob Lee, while Bob Dowie, the brother of Shearer's assistant Iain Dowie, may also become part of the new regime.

 

Shearer and Ashley are agreed that there needs to be a mass clear-out of high-earning players Newcastle have 15 of them commanding in excess of £50,000 a week although, with many on long-term contracts this may be easier said than done. At first glance they look unlikely bedfellows but Newcastle's owner has been effectively backed into a corner by the club's record scorer and, with Shearer in a position of considerable strength, he is expected to bow to demands.

 

Should negotiations break down and the local hero instead return to his former job as a pundit for the BBC, Ashley would face the full wrath of Newcastle fans who have struggled to forgive him for allowing Kevin Keegan to walk out last September.

 

Moreover senior Newcastle players have urged the multimillionaire retailer to do everything in his power to retain Shearer. Steven Taylor and Damien Duff believe a major rethink is required at St James' Park and that Shearer is not only the right man to re-formulate philosophy and policy but also to lead them back into the Premier League. In a damning indictment of the modus operandi of previous managers, among them Joe Kinnear, Keegan and Sam Allardyce, Duff revealed. "This has been a proper club for eight weeks now."

 

Tellingly Shearer, who has already overhauled the medical and scouting departments, is the first manager working for Ashley to have extracted significant concessions about the way the club is run from a man with whom Allardyce and Keegan struggled to communicate.

 

The Ireland winger, signed three years ago from Chelsea by Glenn Roeder, feels such managerial clout will pay long-term dividends. "It's the first time in a long time that this place has felt like a proper football club," Duff said. "Alan Shearer has been brilliant for eight weeks. If there is one man to get us back up into the Premier League, it is him. Hopefully the gaffer will stay."

 

Taylor, an England Under-21 centre-half, said: "There have to be big changes after this. People have to realise it is an honour to play for Newcastle United football club. You have to give it 100%. The past 10 months haven't been good enough. We need more belief and a positive mental attitude back. We need stability. The only person I think can take Newcastle back up to the Premier League is Alan Shearer. He has been fantastic to work with."

 

If this all comes off there is no doubt that we will be in a better place as a club overall than we have been in a long time now.

 

As long as Shearer is in charge it is going to be very hard for the club to continue going in a downward spiral as he just won't let it happen.

 

I'm actually excited about the prospects should Shearer be backed to the hilt.

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I'd love to see Carver back and Lee involved.

 

After reading that piece a sense of excitement and hope surged through my body.

 

This could well be the wake-up call this club needed, and if Ashley is to stay and plough a decent amount of money to try and get us back up then we need to stop having a go and be united 100%.

 

With more resources than all the clubs in that division and the crowds we get why can't we bounce back and take one of three places? We have had to endure watching the shittest of football for far too long and out of anybody Shearer knows what is required!

 

So lets get a good blend of talented youngsters, quality seasoned pro's and any quality loans we can muster to see we get straight back up!

 

This is not the end it's a new beginning!

 

Howay the lads!

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I'd love to see Carver back and Lee involved.

 

After reading that piece a sense of excitement and hope surged through my body.

 

This could well be the wake-up call this club needed, and if Ashley is to stay and plough a decent amount of money to try and get us back up then we need to stop having a go and be united 100%.

 

With more resources than all the clubs in that division and the crowds we get why can't we bounce back and take one of three places? We have had to endure watching the shittest of football for far too long and out of anybody Shearer knows what is required!

 

So lets get a good blend of talented youngsters, quality seasoned pro's and any quality loans we can muster to see we get straight back up!

 

This is not the end it's a new beginning!

 

Howay the lads!

 

There's your problem.

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I'd love to see Carver back and Lee involved.

 

After reading that piece a sense of excitement and hope surged through my body.

 

This could well be the wake-up call this club needed, and if Ashley is to stay and plough a decent amount of money to try and get us back up then we need to stop having a go and be united 100%.

 

With more resources than all the clubs in that division and the crowds we get why can't we bounce back and take one of three places? We have had to endure watching the shittest of football for far too long and out of anybody Shearer knows what is required!

 

So lets get a good blend of talented youngsters, quality seasoned pro's and any quality loans we can muster to see we get straight back up!

 

This is not the end it's a new beginning!

 

Howay the lads!

 

There's your problem.

 

If outlaying 30 mil to have a chance to make back 100+ if we go back up is a something even that witless idiot would take otherwise why is he still here?

 

Queue a takeover 2 weeks before the start of the season

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Should be a good £30 mill on the table after sales, thats if Ashley decides to add to the kitty, he might see the fund after sales and think he doesnt need to add to it.

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Should be a good £30 mill on the table after sales, thats if Ashley decides to add to the kitty, he might see the fund after sales and think he doesnt need to add to it.

 

Just hope the 8 net profit is in addition to that

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I'd love to see Carver back and Lee involved.

 

After reading that piece a sense of excitement and hope surged through my body.

 

This could well be the wake-up call this club needed, and if Ashley is to stay and plough a decent amount of money to try and get us back up then we need to stop having a go and be united 100%.

 

With more resources than all the clubs in that division and the crowds we get why can't we bounce back and take one of three places? We have had to endure watching the shittest of football for far too long and out of anybody Shearer knows what is required!

 

So lets get a good blend of talented youngsters, quality seasoned pro's and any quality loans we can muster to see we get straight back up!

 

This is not the end it's a new beginning!

 

Howay the lads!

 

There's your problem.

 

Ashley is supposed to be a gambler. If he thinks backing Shearer with decent money is a worse bet than giving the job to some Del boy who'll do what he's told, he'd be better off playing the slot machines in his local pub.

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''Xisco, for example, is believed to have a six-year contract worth £50,000 a week.''

 

Really?

 

Xisco, Jonas and Colocini are both under contract to 2013, not sure what wages both are on though.

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''Xisco, for example, is believed to have a six-year contract worth £50,000 a week.''

 

Really?

 

If that's true then someone on the inside has been making a killing.

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''Xisco, for example, is believed to have a six-year contract worth £50,000 a week.''

 

Really?

 

If that's true then someone on the inside has been making a killing.

 

No wonder the bender's always out on the lash.

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Shearer will present Ashley and Derek Llambias, the managing director - whose statement expressing “disappointment” in the immediate aftermath of relegation contained no apology to supporters - with a list of players he wishes to retain. Steve Harper, the goalkeeper, Steven Taylor and Nicky Butt will figure prominently, but offers on most other players will be considered.

 

:suicide:

 

Buyers will also be sought for Joey Barton, Xisco and José Enrique

 

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''Xisco, for example, is believed to have a six-year contract worth £50,000 a week.''

 

Really?

 

If that's true then someone on the inside needs killing.

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Shearer will present Ashley and Derek Llambias, the managing director - whose statement expressing “disappointment” in the immediate aftermath of relegation contained no apology to supporters - with a list of players he wishes to retain. Steve Harper, the goalkeeper, Steven Taylor and Nicky Butt will figure prominently, but offers on most other players will be considered.

 

:suicide:

 

Buyers will also be sought for Joey Barton, Xisco and José Enrique

 

:(

 

This Nicky Butt thing is just crazy at this point ...

 

 

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Well he failed so he was a Keegan signing and KK demanded to put him on 50k a week so when Henry and Lampard signed Xisco wouldn't feel underpaid.

 

It all makes sense, just ask Derek.

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Shearer will present Ashley and Derek Llambias, the managing director - whose statement expressing “disappointment” in the immediate aftermath of relegation contained no apology to supporters - with a list of players he wishes to retain. Steve Harper, the goalkeeper, Steven Taylor and Nicky Butt will figure prominently, but offers on most other players will be considered.

 

:suicide:

 

Buyers will also be sought for Joey Barton, Xisco and José Enrique

 

:(

 

I reckon that's a bit of paper bollocks/guessing.

 

They've been willing him out of the club since he came here.

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No way is Xisco on 50 k a week  ;D

 

You serious?

 

Don't tell me your surprised at the endless stupidity that swamps our club!  :no:

 

That wouldn't be stupidity though, it would suggest that someone inside the club is making a cut on the deal.

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