Paul Mitchell to leave club by mutual consent at end of June (Official)

[Gaztoon]

2 minutes ago, UpTheToon said:

"Mitchell leaves with the full respect of the hierarchy, technical team, coaching staff and players. His exit is not expected to impact the summer’s transfer business with the club having already identified clear targets during meetings over a number of months."

 

Story up on the Athletic now

 

I'd much rather believe we're in the shite.. thank you very much.

[nemtizz]

Interesting reading his quotes from back in Sep - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13813933/Newcastle-sporting-director-Paul-Mitchell-transfers.html

[Tiresias]

5 minutes ago, Chiaia said:

Imagine we sign nobody again man 

 

I imagine Howe would walk if that happened

[Displayname]

If anything, this makes our summer business more streamlined. 

Not worried at all that Eddie has got a bigger say in things.

[STM]

Great news. More power to Eddie Howe is fantastic. Gutted for the lads who just wanted cheap forrins though. 

[Mike]

Shit I can do nothing and get a few million quid. They post the job on LinkedIn yet?

[ponsaelius]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

I know it isn't the fashionable thing to do anymore, but the way I see it, if Howe was just a DoF and not also a Manager, he (with Nickson anyway) would be as coveted as anyone we'd be considering 

 

Oh aye, of course, and I'd take somebody with Howe's football acumen and eye for a player over these faceless suit types every single day of the week.

 

My issue with it is the club has to be set up eventually to be able to operate independent of who the head coach is. I think it is almost impossible to set up the club that way while he's here, so it's a bit of a catch 22.

[christ]

I’m not unduly concerned like. Timing of the announcement suggests it’s been known about for a while, which means you wouldn’t expect it to interfere with transfers.

[Smal]

Eddie knows he has all the leverage now doesn't he . Fair play to him. 

[Disco]

Be interesting to see if he runs his mouth off in the press after June. 

[Wilson]

22 minutes ago, Pilko said:

Feels like this may have been in the works a while and delayed until the season was concluded, given the timing. First day back at work after the last game.

 

Aye, although it makes me wonder why it's 'end of june' and not with immediate effect. 

[Ikon]

Probably a disagreement on targets and so on. Think Howe wants more say, power and control on targets. Not even sure he can work with a Dof   (Not saying he doesn’t). Could also be other reasons. But yeah I imagine Howe being an extreme control freak. Which isn’t a bad thing necessarily (most times at least). Or Paul has just been shit. Fuck knows. 
 

Im very surprised. 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:37 by Ikon

[ponsaelius]

2 minutes ago, STM said:

Great news. More power to Eddie Howe is fantastic. Gutted for the lads who just wanted cheap forrins though. 

 

In bits when everybody's expecting moneyball forrins and Eddie just blows the entire budget on two Cumbrians in Trafford and Branthwaite instead.

[KingArthur]

Most likely will not affect this window. Surely we have targets looked well in advance. 

 

Really need a new one, Eddie has to work with someone, right?

[Smal]

12 minutes ago, Rich said:

Strong argument to say that Joe Kinnear's been our best ever DoF?

he did really well to get Shane Ferguson in from Birmingham to be fair

[Kid Icarus]

1 minute ago, ponsaelius said:

 

Oh aye, of course, and I'd take somebody with Howe's football acumen and eye for a player over these faceless suit types every single day of the week.

 

My issue with it is the club has to be set up eventually to be able to operate independent of who the head coach is. I think it is almost impossible to set up the club that way while he's here, so it's a bit of a catch 22.

Yeah definitely. You essentially need another Howe in that position for when he eventually leaves, but then you'd also expect them to move with Howe.

[Cf]

5 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

To be fair, we've gotten the role wrong to this point so...

 

The job of Mitchell and the like should be to set the entire philosophy of the club, think Ajax think Barca. Yet both Ashworth and Mitchell appear to have been negligent in this area. 

 

We've got Eddie Howe for that.

[PauloGeordio]

3 minutes ago, STM said:

Great news. More power to Eddie Howe is fantastic. Gutted for the lads who just wanted cheap forrins though. 

Trafford, Mbeumo and Ghuehi imminent! 

[midds]

2 minutes ago, Disco said:

Be interesting to see if he runs his mouth off in the press after June. 

Probably NDAed up to the hilt as part of the agreement

[toontownman]

"All I said was..don't give Callum an extension" 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:37 by toontownman

[Mike]

Ashworth rocking back into his office with his plants.

[r0cafella]

Just now, Cf said:

 

We've got Eddie Howe for that.

That job is way beyond the manager remit.

 

We can't have eddie popping down and making sure the u8 are pressing properly.  

[NUFC_Chris]

Here for even less time than Ashworth. Do any of these suits stay anywhere for long?

[RobsonsWonderland]

We seem to have had more DoFs then new players! 

 

I reckon it was an Eddie power play...

[macphisto]

Not fussed about him leaving in terms of transfers as they look after themselves to a certain extent through our scouting system and role of agents.

 

More concerned that we need someone in place to oversee infrastructure development, academy, medical department and women's team, etc.