This reeks of BS as surely he would be sacked now? Although nothing would surprise me with Mike. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/644565/Revealed-Newcastle-boss-Steve-McClaren-sacked Newcastle slipped back into the relegation zone after a 5-1 thumping at Chelsea on Saturday. Manager McClaren has been given almost £75million to spend on new players since his arrival from Derby last summer. They have 12 games remaining to save their season. But The Guardian report that McClaren could be axed if results don't improve in their next two outings. It is claimed owner Mike Ashley and the club board are considering their options following the Chelsea loss. Lee Charnley, Newcastle’s managing director, is said to still have faith in former England boss McClaren, whose greatest success in English football was leading Middlesborough to League Cup glory in 2004. Newcastle do not have a game until Stoke away on 2 March, before a home clash with Bournemouth three days later. McClaren and his players are heading to Spain for a warm-weather training camp this week after they exited early from the FA Cup. Their scheduled league game with Manchester City in a fortnight's time has been set back as Manuel Pellegrini's team head to Wembley for the Capital One Cup final.
Just Paper BS. They love to crank up the pressure on McClaren and Newcastle. Not sure why they all seem to hate us so much. If we were Southampton there just wouldnt be the kind of media frenzy that we see routinely around our club. We used to be a club that other fans sort of liked, but now everybody seems desperate for us to be relegated every season without fail. Kind of soul destroying to have everyone hate us so much, for reasons I cant fathom. Hey Ho, onwards and upwards, hopefully.!!
Just looks like a good guess. If we're bottom three and then 3 or more points adrift in two games, they'd have to act.
The problem will be that if we lose both those games then change of manager is too late. It needs to happen now or not until end of season
He's inherited a squad with no confidence, aggression or group desire but it's taking far to long to turn things around. LAST CHANCE STEVE! He must get the players motivated and playing better, if we can't beat Bournemouth at home then we deserve to be relegated and probably will be unless he's replaced
I'd say sitting on our hands for another two games is foolhardy. They are going to leave someone with an impossible 10 game task. It was the same with Shearer, was it 8 games? Realistically that is just daft. It should have been done before January for me. Certainly now it should be a no brainer. In two games time you are into the silly desperate move stakes.
He's only had his jan signings for 2 - 3 games, we could go and win the next two games and everything will be rosy, He done loads of good things since he's started at the club, freshened everything up, and they have played well on rare occasions. So two more games is fair IMHO New manager will have a load of home fixtures against our relegation rivals so wouldn't think it's an impossible task.
I take it you are yanking my chain here? The football has been awful. Nothing will ever be rosy about this season. He has spent more money than most clubs in Europe, had say in all the purchases, and has us fighting relegation. The only good thing is signing a couple of English players. Other than that I'm not sure what he has freshened up or done well. I'm all for giving people time but on the odd occasion you just have to hold your hands up and say "this guy is not up to the job". Steve will never be up to this job. He's probably a nice enough chap and good coach but his managerial skills rank alongside Carver.
Giving him a further 2 game stay as manager may prove too late to save us. Change is needed now while we've got a 2 week break.
I think it's pointless sacking him now. I explained previously that the problem with Steve is that it took him too many games to realise we couldn't play any other way than the way Pardew and Carver played. It's as simple as that, the players couldn't play any other way. Now we have lots of new players (no defence), so hopefully they have been bought to play in his system and style. Getting a new boss in is starting the whole process again and there's no time for that, even if the next boss is competent. We need to support the oaf til the end of the season. Let's not ask for sackings now, they are not going to achieve success, will only exacerbate the situation and make the players reach new levels of cowardice and the media will prey on it. And let me just say, **** the Chelsea result. At home vs the Baggies we were very impressive, so moaning because we got stuffed 5-1 by last year's winners as if it's the only result that gives us a full picture is a bit harsh.
I think if he's going, he should go now. Ashley is not stupid enough to gamble £100m TV money surely? In tuftys defence of the transfer money spent, I don't think he'd have had much say in it. The amount of money we've wasted on French midfielders is phenomenal.
I'm not saying he shouldn't be sacked as I think he should already have been but, I also think we're past that stage now where it will do any good. When the merry go round starts up again and McClaren gets pushed over the edge, who do fans think there actually going to get as a replacement. ****ing no one of any substance will walk into SJP to save the day. The reality is that decent Coaches/Managers are in posts already - Mikey will be trawling the dregs and the losers who don't have jobs...
You can't polish a turd and as bad as McLaren is no manager is going to be get a team to score goals with crap/inexperienced strikers or stop conceding goals with an appalling defence. This comes down to the clowns in charge leaving gaping holes in the squad year after year, despite how much is being spent, and never realising what they are doing wrong. If we are going to sack the hapless, goofy twat, it should be before the game before the derby as this has worked wonders for Sunderland for the last god-knows-how-many years now. So, yes, that's after we lose to Bournemouth at home on 5th March, two games from now.
To be fair Somb he is the first manager in a long while to have control over transfers. He has spent 80m as he and his two buddies saw fit. He heads up the board and signs off on everything. So the pinning our hopes on a 21 yr centre back and striker (both of whom I think will be good players in time) was down to him. As he says himself, he has had complete support and there is no hiding place. If you'd given any half decent boss 80m they are not sitting third bottom, looking clueless without any tactics in the vast majority of the games.
This. McClaren has basically been given carte blanche to fix this mess. He hasn't and he won't. He is an abysmal manager that no other Premier League would have even considered appointing.
I think either Rob Lee or Olivier Bernard (or both) have been condemning the transfer window. I mean, it ain't just us muppets who can see it - top class footballers take to mainstream news outlets to say "why they didn't buy a striker or defender is mystifying". Beggars belief, really, that they can't see it.
