Newcastle want Steve McClaren as manager IMMEDIATELY 22:30, 2 May 2015 By Neil Moxley The season is over for ex-England gaffer's Derby side and Mike Ashley will ask him to save the Toon after eighth loss in a row increased relegation fears 3139 Shares The season is over for ex-England gaffer's Derby side and Mike Ashley will ask him to save the Toon after eighth loss in a row increased relegation fears The season is over for ex-England gaffer's Derby side and Mike Ashley will ask him to save the Toon after eighth loss in a row increased relegation fears Matthew Lewis please log in to view this image Stop Our Slide: Newcastle don't want to wait until the summer for McClaren Steve McClaren will be asked to become Newcastle's new manager in the next 24 hours as the relegation trap-door inches closer, writes Neil Moxley in the Sunday People. Just a day after seeing his Derby side fail to qualify for the Championship's promotion play-offs, former England head coach McClaren will be offered the job of stopping the rot on Tyneside. The Magpies slipped to an embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Leicester on Saturday - an EIGHTH consecutive defeat that has them glancing over their shoulders at the bottom three. McClaren has been on the Toon radar since Christmas - along with a number of foreign coaches, including Remi Garde, who was interviewed by the club's top brass - but the hierarchy have decided to press ahead now the Rams have failed to reach the second tier's end-of-season shoot-out. Leicester 3-0 Newcastle in pictures: please log in to view this image VIEW GALLERY Relations between ex-Middlesbrough chief McClaren and Derby chief executive Sam Rush have been strained because of the continued speculation linking the 53-year-old Yorkshireman with a move back to the North-East. But now the long-predicted move appears set to go ahead with a meeting planned for this afternoon that will rubber-stamp the move. If McClaren agrees to the switch, he has just three games - West Brom at home next Saturday, QPR away and a season finale at home to West Ham - to reverse the club's fortunes. oops now thats not good news hope he cant get the shower of **** to perform
Newcastle United's owner Mike Ashley subjected to blistering attack by Sky's Jamie Carragher 18:49, 19 April 2015 By Craig Johns Sky pundit Jamie Carragher questioned the motive of Mike Ashley for owning Newcastle United - and said club was now 'boring' 1851 Shares Sky pundit Jamie Carragher questioned the motive of Mike Ashley for owning Newcastle United - and said club was now 'boring Mark Runnacles/Getty Images please log in to view this image Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley Jamie Carragher launched a blistering attack on Mike Ashley, saying he has turned Newcastle United into a ‘boring’ club. Carragher was working as a pundit for Sky Sports during the Magpies’ 3-1 home defeat to Spurs and prior to the game had not held back in giving his thoughts on Ashley and his lack of ambition. And after the game his views were very much the same. Asked if he could understand the fans’ frustrations, he said: “I can. It’s getting to the stage now, football is so big, there’s that much money coming in to the game with the new TV deal, and I am sick of owners coming in who are successful business people wherever they’ve been. They think ‘where else can I make money? Oh a football club’. “I’ve had it at my own club Liverpool with George Gillett and Tom Hicks and it’s the same at Newcastle. “People will say as supporters you’ve got to come back, you’ve got to get behind your team. But what are the owners doing for supporters? “Since Mike Ashley’s been here they’ve been relegated once, they could be relegated once again, and I’m sure under Alan Pardew they come close once before. “So he’s balanced the books - he’s made money because he’s a businessman - but I think of these people and wonder: Don’t you want to be excited yourself? I’m getting bored by Newcastle, but when you watched them over the years there was madness, there was excitement, stupid goals going in one end and then the other, but it was exciting. “Now it’s boring. Why does Mike Ashley want the club if there’s nothing happening? There’s no cup run, I just don’t get it. I don’t get why he wants to own a football club.” Former Sunderland player Niall Quinn was also working as a pundit for Sky today. As well as a playing career on Wearside he was also chairman of Newcastle’s rivals for a period too. Offering insight, he said: “I think you’ve got to get the balance right. It’s not just about making money. “Early on in his tenure here he was getting criticism and he made his mind up he was doing it his way and he didn’t care what the fans thought. And that is something that just doesn’t work. “Sunderland fans will resent me for saying this, but the Geordie fans have been through everything with this football club, and for them to stay away and not watch a game of football at this club - that hurts. It tells of the disconnect and it has to be resolved.” Quinn continued: “The connection [between owner and fans] is broken like it was at Liverpool for instance, but Liverpool had a difference. “They had a group who were able to come in and do something about it. It ended up in the courts and Fenway ended up getting the club. “You don’t see anybody coming out and saying: ‘I’m going to take this from Mike Ashley’. Newcastle fans are protesting but they don’t have anyone to come in instead of Mike Ashley and that could be the problem. “To reconnect has to be the best way forward.”
I'm not so sure he'll go there. Why would he join a club that's right in the middle of a massive melt-down. Far better for him to wait and see if they stay up or not. If they go down, there may be better offers on the table.
I don't see it as a win-win situation for him. Apart from the injuries, they had 2 sent off yesterday, the captain played like he's got shell-shock and the rest of the squad look totally disinterested. He might be a good coach, even a great coach, but he'll need to be a miracle worker to turn them around in just 3 games.
Not the news we want to hear, different if it was Leicester up next game for the Mags , but this is bad timing for us if it comes off, and I think it will Carver is a goner imo.
Add to that the fact that the Mags have more or less an ideal fixture list to the last few games (two home games against middle-of-the-road teams with nowt to play for and one against all-but-relegated QPR), and this could be a real problem. We need to make sure we do the business in our next two games to pile the pressure onto them.
Not bothered if it happens because I do not rate wolly head. Just look at derby for **** sake LOL ****ing bottle job he is.
I hope he does go there , I don't rate the bloke at all. The way Derby dominated the league and then just fell apart from March without even making the playoffs says it all to me.
Beat Everton in the early kick off next week, admittedly not an easy task, and the psychological pressure on Newcastle would be immense. Let's bloody hope it happens.
I was saying yesterday. All Newcastle have to do is remove Carver and they are bound to win one of their remaining games and stay up. Bad news for us this
Pressure would be on him, not good on the CV to miss out on the playoffs in spectacular style and then get a side relegated from the EPL. Who would employ him then? If he has half a brain he will wait to see what happens. Agree with others it could see us deep in the ****.
Hang on a minute, why is it assumed he would accept the job? The club is a shambles, there`s no ambition and the owner is an arsehole who won`t spend. And the fans will expect miracles Hasn`t got a lot going for it really.
