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Firstly, can I apologise for this being my first post (cue the abuse and all the rest of it!) but you need to know this immediately.

 

I am a freelance football writer and have this story lined up on SSN at around 10:30 with a telephone interview if all goes to plan, however, I am chucking it around a few forums as well.

 

It seems Mr Mike Ashley is trying his hand at bringing in someone who knows the club, Paul Bracewell assisted in an advisory capacity by Stan Ternent (an unpaid temporary position apparently, not confirmed as yet). This apparently is to bring in some stability to the club in the short term and to also distance comments made by Mr Joe Kinnear earlier this morning about being offered the job.

 

If successful, Bracewell will attend the Hawthorns on Saturday with Ternent as spectators with Hughton and Calderwood keeping control of team affairs for the Championship opener. Bracewell and Ternent will then assume their position on Monday morning.

 

All these daft rumours are getting silly now.

 

    Is this a joke or something? Whats his managerial history shows??

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Firstly, can I apologise for this being my first post (cue the abuse and all the rest of it!) but you need to know this immediately.

 

I am a freelance football writer and have this story lined up on SSN at around 10:30 with a telephone interview if all goes to plan, however, I am chucking it around a few forums as well.

 

It seems Mr Mike Ashley is trying his hand at bringing in someone who knows the club, Paul Bracewell assisted in an advisory capacity by Stan Ternent (an unpaid temporary position apparently, not confirmed as yet). This apparently is to bring in some stability to the club in the short term and to also distance comments made by Mr Joe Kinnear earlier this morning about being offered the job.

 

If successful, Bracewell will attend the Hawthorns on Saturday with Ternent as spectators with Hughton and Calderwood keeping control of team affairs for the Championship opener. Bracewell and Ternent will then assume their position on Monday morning.

 

All these daft rumours are getting silly now.

 

    Is this a joke or something? Whats his managerial history shows??

 

Would be even more random than JFK's appointment!

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Firstly, can I apologise for this being my first post (cue the abuse and all the rest of it!) but you need to know this immediately.

 

I am a freelance football writer and have this story lined up on SSN at around 10:30 with a telephone interview if all goes to plan, however, I am chucking it around a few forums as well.

 

It seems Mr Mike Ashley is trying his hand at bringing in someone who knows the club, Paul Bracewell assisted in an advisory capacity by Stan Ternent (an unpaid temporary position apparently, not confirmed as yet). This apparently is to bring in some stability to the club in the short term and to also distance comments made by Mr Joe Kinnear earlier this morning about being offered the job.

 

If successful, Bracewell will attend the Hawthorns on Saturday with Ternent as spectators with Hughton and Calderwood keeping control of team affairs for the Championship opener. Bracewell and Ternent will then assume their position on Monday morning.

 

All these daft rumours are getting silly now.

 

    Is this a joke or something? Whats his managerial history shows??

 

Would be even more random than JFK's appointment!

 

The only reason you wouldn't laugh that out of court is that it's just the type of cheap crackpot appointment Ashley would make.

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Firstly, can I apologise for this being my first post (cue the abuse and all the rest of it!) but you need to know this immediately.

 

I am a freelance football writer and have this story lined up on SSN at around 10:30 with a telephone interview if all goes to plan, however, I am chucking it around a few forums as well.

 

It seems Mr Mike Ashley is trying his hand at bringing in someone who knows the club, Paul Bracewell assisted in an advisory capacity by Stan Ternent (an unpaid temporary position apparently, not confirmed as yet). This apparently is to bring in some stability to the club in the short term and to also distance comments made by Mr Joe Kinnear earlier this morning about being offered the job.

 

If successful, Bracewell will attend the Hawthorns on Saturday with Ternent as spectators with Hughton and Calderwood keeping control of team affairs for the Championship opener. Bracewell and Ternent will then assume their position on Monday morning.

 

All these daft rumours are getting silly now.

 

    Is this a joke or something? Whats his managerial history shows??

 

Would be even more random than JFK's appointment!

 

The only reason you wouldn't laugh that out of court is that it's just the type of cheap crackpot appointment Ashley would make.

 

It makes you wonder, IF there is any substance to this, who is actually advising Ashley on  matters. More chance of it being Rolf Harris than Keith Harris

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Hot on the trail of the Joe Kinnear/NUFC job offer claims, credible sources were suggesting on Wednesday evening that the club have now also made an approach to David O'Leary to become their latest interim manager.

 

However it's understood that the former Leeds and Aston Villa boss - who has been out of football since July 2006 - was deterred by the current uncertainty regarding the possible imminent sale of the club.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1204649/EXCLUSIVE-Newcastle-plummet-new-depths-OLeary-turns-managers-job.html

 

EXCLUSIVE: Newcastle plummet to new depths as O'Leary turns down manager's job

 

EXCLUSIVE by COLIN YOUNG and MIKE WALKER

Last updated at 2:19 AM on 06th August 2009

 

Just when Newcastle fans thought they had suffered enough, the good ship St James' hit rock bottom on Wednesday night.

 

After a day of fresh farce, it was revealed that David O'Leary rejected the chance to become manager on a two-year contract, despite spending the past three years out of the game.

 

Hours earlier Joe Kinnear, who stepped down last February needing a heart bypass operation, confirmed he too had been offered a return to the same post with the same length of deal a fortnight ago but was unable to take it up immediately.

 

O'Leary, the former Leeds and Aston Villa boss, is understood to have passed on what many would consider a poisoned chalice because it was stressed to him that Newcastle might soon be sold.

 

There has been little sign of that recently but as confusion reigns at St James' Park, Tyneside businessman Barry Moat has emerged as the preferred bidder of brokers Seymour Pierce.

 

Moat is close to Alan Shearer and was chairman of the Newcastle legend's testimonial committee, meaning moves for Kinnear and O'Leary are unlikely to have come at his behest.

 

Moat's involvement with what is said to be an American consortium would surely see Shearer re-instated as boss, and with Ashley having set an informal deadline of Friday, the promise of better news to appease fans persists.

 

With their season kicking off at fellow relegated side West Brom on Saturday, Ashley and his managing director, Derek Llambias, are still insisting the club is for sale. However, billionaire Ashley has not ruled out staying if his £100million asking price is not met.

 

Shearer waits for the call to return as manager, three months after his last meeting with Ashley, but he looks destined to return to the Match of the Day studio for the BBC's first televised Football League game this Saturday.

 

Newcastle fans, who vented their frustration in a fans' forum with the BBC last night, will be hoping Ashley can secure a sale sooner rather than later, especially if the new owners offer Shearer the manager's job.

 

Ashley is hoping to sell several players before the weekend, with Tottenham believed to be prepared to make an improved offer for French defender Sebastien Bassong after a £10m bid was turned down this week. Aston Villa want Senegal defender Habib Beye, and Wolves are chasing midfielder Nicky Butt.

 

 

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