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Mattoon

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The only ex player speaking any sense is that rat faced money grabbing deserter Owen. I'm really disappointed in Ferdinand, being so involved in football still you'd think he had more knowledge than that.

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A decent piece by the Chronic for a change, they're playing with fire atm:

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/newcastle-united-need-jurgen-klopp-9093223

 

 

Newcastle United will stay true to form with their next managerial appointment, but what they really need is a visionary who might dream big.

 

Jurgen Klopp

 

The ball spun out of play and into the matt black night air, to land close to Alan Pardew’s feet.

 

Newcastle were beating Everton at St James’ Park, a few days after succumbing to another bruising derby defeat. Pardew caught it and threw it back in, but not before someone in the crowd called on the United manager to take the chains off his Newcastle team and “stop being negative”.

 

Pardew turned around, shrugged and allowed his shoulders to drop. A few hours later he was to inform Lee Charnley that he wanted permission to leave Newcastle and talk to Crystal Palace about the job that had become available after Neil Warnock’s dismissal.

 

The date was December 28. With the future of the club having careered towards a crossroads, Newcastle had been handed a golden opportunity by Pardew’s acknowledgement that he would never win over a growing band of doubters.

 

A chance to energise a club in desperate need of reviving had presented itself but United’s reaction was, as they have done for much of Mike Ashley’s eight years, to turn inwards. John Carver presented an apparently safe pair of hands and Charnley was convinced of the logic of delaying the decision but the judgement call was incorrect. Handed a poisoned chalice – steadily toxified by a succession of decisions which have alienated supporters – Carver has become weaker by the week.

 

What Newcastle needed – now, then and probably forever more under Ashley – was to be bold. In the week that one of the most fascinating and successful managers of his era has become available, we can reflect on the fact that Newcastle need their version of Jurgen Klopp.

 

In days of yore, we might have speculated on Newcastle shooting for someone like Klopp. United was not a Utopia under its previous owners but there was a bravado and swagger about the club that would probably have led to at least a conversation about trying to lure the German to St James’ Park.

 

If that chat has been had in the corridors of the famous old ground – and Skybet were offering a bewildering 12/1 on Klopp taking the reins at United – it would be a bigger shock than Kevin Keegan’s second coming.

 

But as those who protested over the weekend were quick to remind us: there is plenty to sell about Newcastle, a project for a man with shoulders as broad as the river Tyne and an imagination to match. It might sound romantic to outsiders but the rich potential to be unlocked at St James’ Park – and the same goes for Sunderland, incidentally – might hold appeal to someone like Klopp.

 

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp

 

After all, it would be his second magic trick. For while Klopp leaves a Borussia Dortmund returned to their place among the European elite when he was hired, after nearly two decades at Mainz, the outlook was not quite so optimistic for one of Germany’s great clubs.

 

As anyone who has experienced the might of the so-called Yellow Wall would testify, Dortmund are a special club. No club on the Continent, of course, boasts attendances to rival the 80,000 who cram into the Signal Iduna Park – and there is a rich and proud tradition of progressivism that goes back to the war era when Borussia’s president was removed from his post for his principled stand of refusing to join the Nazis.

 

On-the-field, a mid-nineties renaissance that saw them summit European football with a Champions League win in 1997 had run out of steam when Klopp – urbane, forward-thinking and a calculated gamble – walked through the doors.

 

Nearly bankrupt, they were a shadow of the club that we recognise now. Through tactical innovation, astute man-management, a commitment to progressive football and his own force of personality, the charismatic Klopp kick-started a revival. Two titles, a Champions League final and two runners-up in the Bundesliga later, the club is the envy of global football.

 

Kevin Keegan couldn’t bring silverware to St James’ Park but he changed the Newcastle’s direction in a similar way to Klopp. United need someone like that. Part visionary and part revolutionary, it should be a job for someone who can tap into that rich vein of potential.

 

Steve McClaren, to me, looks like the Moneyball option. He fits the model that has been assembled but that structure will probably not get Newcastle the Klopp-a-like they really need.

 

Then again, these days the job on offer at United is pared down. The head coach will have a big say in recruitment but it will fall to Graham Carr and Charnley to help sift through the targets and this summer, whoever gets the job will be walking into a role where many of the big decisions have already been taken. Why would an ambitious man choose that role?

 

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew before the Barclays Premier League match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland.

 

It will be a McClaren or a Pardew, flying high in the Premier League but who was incredibly lucky to land a job that his CV did not warrant. It should not be.

 

There are clutches of interesting coaches out there in Europe: the technicolour Marcelo Bielsa, who has done a fine job at Marseille (although his current run-of-form is Pardew-esque). Thomas Tuchel, who will replace Klopp at Dortmund, is a fascinating and ambitious character who was available. Vincenzo Montella at Fiorentina, maybe? Christophe Galtier of St Etienne would have been an interesting choice.

 

We don’t necessarily have to go abroad. How about Eddie Howe, the man recently handed the Football League manager of the decade award by Bournemouth? Swansea – famous for their sane managerial calls and a structured policy designed to bring in the right man – improved after identifying Garry Monk as a potential replacement for Brian Laudrup. It is about challenging yourself, embracing someone who might do things differently; listen and re-train the priorities of a football club that feels lost.

 

An opportunity is slipping through Newcastle’s fingers.

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And the other isn't pulling up any tree's in the championship.

 

McClaren, regardless of the factor he 'isn't Carver', would not excite me in the slightest.

 

He's never managed a team that's played good football.

 

The best we could hope for with him would be a well drilled side that's hard to break down. Great. Boring football, boring bloke.

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McLaren would feel like Klopp or Guardiola compared to the mess currently disgracing your bench. I guess that was part of the plan.

 

:lol: At no point in his tenure will he feel like those two, regardless of the spin doctors/hope killers at the top.

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To think that Gateshead are about to lose a manager who is better than this bloke will ever be...and we might be keeping him. :yao:

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