Sam lands 12million deal

[wibble]

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[Dokko]

Aye lads, its my site - I'd rather not get banned for spamming or taking this thread off-topic though so if anyone has any queries please just PM me instead.  Cheers.

 

http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=39939.0

 

Keep it all here!

[Thespence]

All these numbers seem high to me.  It shows the world footy operates in when we start saying things like "£55k a week isn't that much really"

 

Welcome to the last decade. 

 

That being my point

[Skirge]

Being hard to be beat will make a nice chnage like, not looking forward to to many 0-0 draws like but we shall see.

I thought we only had to pay compensation of we announced Sam as the new manager before the season has ended? Its a hell of a lot of money and depending on how much of that goes to Sam it could suggest that Sam took a bit of convincing to take the job.

I thought the comp was about £5 mill so £7 mill of it for Sam for four years, he must be well chuffed.

[bovineblue]

And the fact that United have offered Allardyce a four-year contract rules out any chance of Alan Shearer returning to the club as manager in the immediate future.

 

Fat Fred wouldn't think about sacking a manager before his contract was up.

[STM]

Can't wait for Sams press conference but will he spare us the usual s***?

 

1. 50 000 blah blah blah

 

2. Sleeping giant

 

3. North east hot bed

 

4. They love the football in this region you know

 

5. Massive club

 

6. Alan Shearer this Alan Shearer that

 

7. Credit to the chairman

 

[Dragon55544]

Can't wait for Sams press conference but will he spare us the usual s***?

 

1. 50 000 blah blah blah

 

2. Sleeping giant

 

3. North east hot bed

 

4. They love the football in this region you know

 

5. Massive club

 

6. Alan Shearer this Alan Shearer that

 

7. Credit to the chairman

 

 

Dont forget the greatest fans!!!!

[GM]

This feels right. blueyes.gif

 

Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United: it just feels right. I can actually feel optimism seeping back into my veins...

[Mick]

This feels right. blueyes.gif

 

Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United: it just feels right. I can actually feel optimism seeping back into my veins...

 

Optimism or alcohol? 

[Guest TheOrder]

Can't wait for Sams press conference but will he spare us the usual s***?

 

1. 50 000 blah blah blah

 

2. Sleeping giant

 

3. North east hot bed

 

4. They love the football in this region you know

 

5. Massive club

 

6. Alan Shearer this Alan Shearer that

 

7. Credit to the chairman

 

 

Whats wrong with saying these, btw?

[GM]

This feels right. blueyes.gif

 

Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United: it just feels right. I can actually feel optimism seeping back into my veins...

 

Optimism or alcohol? 

 

Defintiteytyl optomisum (hic!)

[Unbelievable]

This feels right. blueyes.gif

 

Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United: it just feels right. I can actually feel optimism seeping back into my veins...

 

GM, is your avatar meant to suggest Ronald Koeman as our next manager?

[GM]

GM, is your avatar meant to suggest Ronald Koeman as our next manager?

 

No.

 

It's meant to suggest that I look like a fucking gorilla. A strategically shaved gorilla, mind.

 

Although some who have met me have suggested I do look a bit like our next manager: Big Sam.

[Unbelievable]

Did you know that the only albino gorilla that supposedly ever lived was in the Barcelona zoo at the time Koeman was there as a player, and Koeman's nickname was this Gorilla's name, (Floquet de Neu, or snowflake) because of him being blond and built like a gorilla?

[Cajun]

GM, is your avatar meant to suggest Ronald Koeman as our next manager?

 

No.

 

It's meant to suggest that I look like a fucking gorilla. A strategically shaved gorilla, mind.

 

Although some who have met me have suggested I do look a bit like our next manager: Big Sam.

 

You look like a past rugby player but i cant think who

 

Edit:

 

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9592/willcarling3qf6.jpg

[STM]

Can't wait for Sams press conference but will he spare us the usual s***?

 

1. 50 000 blah blah blah

 

2. Sleeping giant

 

3. North east hot bed

 

4. They love the football in this region you know

 

5. Massive club

 

6. Alan Shearer this Alan Shearer that

 

7. Credit to the chairman

 

 

Whats wrong with saying these, btw?

 

Don't get me wrong Rocker most of it is true but i hate hearing it by every player and manager that comes through the door. I think it's to do with the fact that all of them come in and talk about the lack of trophies and we NEVER get any closer to the promise land.

 

For once i would i either like to see:

 

A. Someone come in and say "Cutt the crap, this is a potentailly big club but that counts for nothing we need to win games and prove it"

 

or B. Come in, say all that stuff and actually deliever!

[thewellander]

It's simple, really. If Newcastle become a top six team again in the next couple years, then the money is worth it. If we don't, we'll have another over-paid waste of money to complain about on the boards.

[Dr Venkman]

Will also be intresting to see the structure on the backdoor staff

 

oo er

[Guest eyeball_tickler]

if he can get us into europe just 1 time then that will cover his wages, anything he does beyond that is a bonus.

[Teasy]

£62,500 per week?!... not a good sign IMO if true.  Just screams "I don't really want this job but I'll take the stupidly over the top contract if your handing it out".

[Guest TheOrder]

£62,500 per week?!... not a good sign IMO if true.  Just screams "I don't really want this job but I'll take the stupidly over the top contract if your handing it out".

 

Your believing the paper talk though.

[Baggio]

Sam Allardyce has been offered a £3m-per-annum, four-year contract to take charge of Newcastle United and become the Premiership's third best paid manager behind Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson.

 

Newcastle could have appointed the former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, now at Lyon, and even the ex-England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson for less. However, Freddy Shepherd, the St James' Park chairman, declined to take calls from their representatives last week, despite Houllier topping polls of Geordie fans asked to name their preferred choice as Glenn Roeder's successor. It is understood that Alan Shearer was sounded out but he is happy working for the BBC and travelling the world as an ambassador for the club.

 

With the board expected to ratify the former Bolton manager's £12 m deal at a specially convened meeting tomorrow, Allardyce - who had originally hoped to succeed Stuart Pearce at Manchester City - is poised to be formally appointed on Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

By then he could be fielding telephone calls from the Quest team run by Lord Stevens and in the final throes of completing their long-running investigation into corruption in football. Quest are apparently keen to question Allardyce for a third time, in this instance about the transfers of Israeli duo Tal Ben Haim and Idan Tal to Bolton, but with the Stevens inquiry due to make its final report to the Premier League this week and issue a public statement by the end of the month they are fast running out of time.

 

Newcastle are believed to have been reassured that Allardyce - who loomed large in a BBC Panorama special on abuse of the transfer system last year - has not been in receipt of illegal 'bungs'.

 

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Quite apart from paying Allardyce roughly three times the salary afforded to Roeder, who resigned last Sunday, and around seven times the £400,000 Sheffield United's Neil Warnock has earned this season, Shepherd will almost certainly need to negotiate a compensation package with Bolton. Allardyce had two years remaining of his contract at the Reebok when he walked out a fortnight ago but a compromise may be reached if the new manager agrees not to poach key members of his former Bolton staff.

 

Bolton employ an unprecedented 21-strong, backroom team including sports scientists, psychologists and IT experts and have newly offered Mike Forde, their highly regarded performance director, an improved contract. Forde was regarded by many as Allardyce's key lieutenant and the in-coming Newcastle manager would seemingly like nothing better than to have him by his side on Tyneside.

 

Nevertheless Bolton are braced to lose Gary Speed, their newly-appointed player coach and a former Newcastle midfielder, to a similar role at St James' Park where the coaching staff could also be augmented by Neil McDonald, currently the Carlisle United manager. Allardyce apparently convinced an initially sceptical Shepherd of the need to employ so many assistants by comparing the number of potential playing hours Newcastle players have lost to injury this season with those forfeited by Bolton personnel.

 

While Roeder's squad spent a collective total of approximately 400 hours sidelined, Allardyce's men were indisposed for just 70. However, another statistic 'Big Sam' presumably did not mention over lunch with Shepherd at Claridges in London on Friday is that in his last 16 games in charge of the Wanderers they took just 16 points; in contrast, the unfortunate Roeder's Newcastle collected 17 points from his final 16 matches.

 

The worst of Newcastle's injuries was sustained on England duty by Michael Owen last summer and arguably cost Roeder - who last Sunday asked Shepherd to give him until Christmas to prove himself before realising resignation was his only option - the chance to implement the major re-structuring of the squad he was planning for this summer.

 

Allardyce, though, could be forced to cope without Owen, who seems increasingly likely to be sold after the revelation that his contract includes a release clause stating that the striker can leave for £9 million.

 

Perhaps partly in anticipation of this, a Newcastle delegation last week held a meeting in Monte Carlo with Mike Morris, a Monaco-based agent who has worked closely with Allardyce on transfers, to discuss potential new signings.

 

[Teasy]

£62,500 per week?!... not a good sign IMO if true.  Just screams "I don't really want this job but I'll take the stupidly over the top contract if your handing it out".

 

Your believing the paper talk though.

 

No I'm not.