Latest Kinnear Interview

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Joe Kinnear has declared himself fit and well to succeed in his role as director of football at Newcastle.

The 66-year-old was a shock appointment by owner Mike Ashley but in an exclusive interview Kinnear spoke about his health, his plans to mould the Geordies into a club capable of a return to the Champions League and his working relationship with manager Alan Pardew.

Kinnear was manager at Newcastle three and a half years ago when he suffered his second heart attack. But he has no fears about dealing with the stress that will come with involvement at such a high-profile club:

HIS HEALTH “I saw a specialist about six months ago and he said I was fine. I have never felt fitter. I go regularly to the gym and I walk a lot and also jog. I have no doubts that I will be OK.”

There was criticism of a previous regime at St James’ Park that the figures of influence were based in London. But Kinnear will spend the majority of the week on Tyneside.

“I will be at the club four days a week — *minimum,” said Kinnear. “I feel fit and good — and I am ready to take on the challenge.”

THE PLANS “I have worked at the club before and I know what Newcastle means to the fans.

“They have a passion for Newcastle and so do I. Last season was a disappointing one but the simple truth was that the squad just wasn’t strong enough.

“The Europa League also took its toll because of injuries and that was felt in the league. My job is simple - to bring in quality players who will give the manager more options.

“What we don’t want to *happen again is for the club to be worried about relegation with a couple of games left.

“What I see in the long term is help to put together a squad to get this club back into the Champions League.

“They have tasted it before and I want that to happen again. We have some talented young players at Newcastle and if there was one benefit from the Europa League, it was that Alan was able to give valuable first-team *experience to those players.

“Like Moussa Sissoko, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Hatem Ben Arfa and Yohan Cabaye. All excellent. And we have Sammy Ameobi, Shola’s brother. I have spoken with Fabricio Coloccini and I am confident he is staying and Steven Taylor — well, he is a rock.

“We just need to bring in more talent.”

Kinnear has already drawn up a list of matches to be attended by him and chief scout Graham Carr to identify targets for the transfer window in January.

THE MEETINGS WITH PARDEW “There is a mutual respect between us. I have sat down with Alan, one on one, on two or three occasions and he is fully supportive of my role.

“We both have the same aim — to bring success to Newcastle. I feel confident we will have a great working relationship and one that will benefit Newcastle.

“He had to perform a juggling act last season because of Europa League commitments and injuries. Now the plan is to give him more quality in his squad.”

 

All very well Joe (and well done for getting the names right), but please shut up and do your job!
We need strikers!

 

I wish he would shut the **** up

 

Why do we need strikers?
We have 'the rock' aka Steven Taylor...

 

And we all know that The Rock is without a doubt THE most electrifying man in sports entertainment today!

 

Shut the **** up you fat ****ing **** and make some signings.

 

Sorry Tash, I was only posting my view.

 

Gotta laugh at this. It's just the interview he SHOULD have given at the start. Took media department just 6 weeks to decipher his words and edit out the swearing.

 

The way he dropped Sammy in among our top players is pure hilarity.

 

Biggest thing I took from this is that we are looking at targets for January not now. Looks like they learnt nothing from last year then.

 

You just have to love the analysis of Joke's first talksport inerview


1. Everything Joe Kinnear Has Said
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Joe Kinnear has been a one-man error-making machine since it was unveiled that he would become Director of Football at St James' Park (making St James the patron saint of decisions as mad as sack of cats). Here are some of the wrong-grenades he's been throwing about this summer:

I'm probably the only football manager to be a director of football. I don't know any other ex-managers who have.

There's been loads.

I've won every award there is in football as a player.

He hasn't.

I've never been sacked in my life.

He has.

I had over 400 games for Tottenham Hotspur.

He hadn't.

[I have] been manager of the year three times.

He hasn't.

I thought I'd done an excellent job there [during his spell as Newcastle Untied manager] and no way would we have gone down.

With their win-per-games ratio, they would have gone down.

I bought Dean Holdsworth for 50 grand.

£650,000.

I sold Robbie Earle for x, y, z.

Robbie Earle left Wimbledon after Kinnear did.

I sold Marcus Gayle, Leonhardsen, Micky Harford, John Hartson, Hans Segers, most of them were free transfers.

Segers might have been a free transfer. The others were not.

I brought Krul to the club and I think he's a terrific goalkeeper.

Krul was at Newcastle United three years before Kinnear was.

"Derek Llambezee was the director of football.

Derek Llambias was the managing director.

Ben Afri.

Ben Arfa.

"Yohan Kebab."

Yohan Cabaye.

Galteirez

Gutierrez.

Shola Amamobi.

Shola Ameobi.

Shola Amamobi is getting better and better, he's a young kid.

He's 31.

I'm lending my experience as a manager for all those years—10 years at Wimbledon, two years at Nottingham Forest, two years winning promotion at Luton and, of course, almost two years at Newcastle.

He spent seven years at Wimbledon, less than a year at Nottingham Forest and five months at Newcastle United.

He did spend two years at Luton Town and won promotion. But only after getting them relegated.

Besides that, everything else he has said has been spot on.

 

Yep me too

 

It's nice to see the healthy relationship he has with Pardew. how long has Kinnear been here? And Hes met Pardew 2 or 3 times? Obviously busting a nut to get players in!

 

I wish people would give Joe a chance! Every other cock sucker seems to.

 

This.

 

As the days go rolling by the feeling of complete dread will not go away. We aren't going to sign anyone are we?

 

I thought that too.

Then again, maybe it's not really all that funny at all if this is what our DofF sees our future to be.

 

I too read JFK's quotes and figured that they've given up on this transfer window altogether. Must think that there's enough there that if kept fit will see us comfortably do better than the bottom three.

But if not there's January to fix it.

 

He may take Mo Farrah on in the next 10,000 m race, just as a warm up, pop over to the Higgs boson particle accelerator centre and keep them right, then sign Bardsley from us!.

 

That is class! Haha