[Football] Newcastle singing Emery as manager... or not

[Easy 10]

£100M, and £200K a week wages could make that come true. Money talks - and ridiculius amounts of money talk louder. Hope it doesn't happen, but I can't help but imagine such an offer would get very serious consideration.

It took them years to meet the asking price of NUFC from Ashley, eventually buying them for about £305m - seems like they were quibbling over about £50m. So yes, they will obviously spend big, but I still don't buy into this notion being peddled that they are going to have their pants pulled down on every transfer fee and pay MASSIVELY over the odds "because they can".

 

[WATFORD zero]

I can't believe anybody would mention Hughton in the same breath as those complete ****s who have taken over Newcastle.

Whatever you thought of his football managerial ability, he is one of the few men you could always trust to be honest to his principles.

I really think a few apologies are in order, we'll see who is honest enough

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

I agree about the stages but the problem is you have to give the stage 1 manager a shed load of wonga in January to keep them up and likewise manager 2 to replace the dross purchased by manger 1. Not only that but manager 1 has to accept that he is manager 1 and not manager 2 or 3.

Also the current squad know that they have no future at the club so will probably have already downed tools which is a problem if in January they can’t bring in sufficient replacements.

Things aren’t helped by the fact that they should have had a director of football in from day 1 to oversee the whole plan so are basically pissing around in the dark.

They seem to want manager 3 in now but there are not any of that quality of manager available currently.

To be honest I don’t see what they can do at this late stage as they don’t seem to have done the correct planning required before they got themselves into this venture.

It amazes me how individuals that clearly must be intelligent enough to have made the wealth they have can appear to be so disorganised and shambolic at running operations

They need to convince Manager 1, that they are manager 3. Lots and lots of cash to get manager 3 or 2.1 (compromise) will help. All revolves around the manager appointment as you say. We wait as to which way the barcodes go.......

 

[LamieRobertson]

They need to convince Manager 1, that they are manager 3. Lots and lots of cash to get manager 3 or 2.1 (compromise) will help. All revolves around the manager appointment as you say. We wait as to which way the barcodes go.......

I’d be disappointed to be referred to as manager 2.1

 

[dazzer6666]

Quite staggered that the brains behind the takeover didn't have a strategic/technical directors and/or experienced CEO ready to parachute in on day 1.....

Remember a discussion on the radio at the time about the lack of any 'football nouse' at the Club top table. They were spot on.

It's HILARIOUS

 

[Bry Nylon]

I’d be disappointed to be referred to as manager 2.1

Doesn't have quite the same 'football' feel to it as "Gaffer" does it?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

From the BBC comments section:

I helped an old lady across the road the other day.
"Can you manage" I said.
"Yes" she said, "but I don't want the Newcastle job".

 

[GT49er]

I’d be disappointed to be referred to as manager 2.1

I'd be delighted - a few weeks camped out away from home in the Newcastle Travelodge and a few million quid as a pay-off, my (non-existant) credibility as a manager destroyed, never likely to get a job in football again.

Yep, that'd do me ...................................

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

I'd be delighted - a few weeks camped out away from home in the Newcastle Travelodge and a few million quid as a pay-off, my (non-existant) credibility as a manager destroyed, never likely to get a job in football again.

Yep, that'd do me ...................................

I'd make it a red line in my contract negotiations that they'd have to put me up in a Premier Inn, at the very least.

 

[um bongo molongo]

All I really care about in this is that they don’t get someone in by Saturday so we avoid the new manager bounce

 

[lawros left foot]

Think he would bite someones hand off for another go in the PL and I dont really blame him.

I’m not sure a man who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and was a member of the Labour Party under Corbyn, and, as far as I know is still a member, would want to work for a regime that bombs children and kills journalists.

 

[GT49er]

I’m not sure a man who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and was a member of the Labour Party under Corbyn, and, as far as I know is still a member, would want to work for a regime that bombs children and kills journalists.

Are you sure that anyone who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and was a member of the Labour Party under Corbyn, and, as far as I know is still a member wouldn't want to work for a regime that bombs children and kills journalists? IIRC, they were great fans of Chairman Mao at one time ............. and the older ones were fans of 'Uncle Joe' before that.

And Aung San Suu Kyi was one of their heroes for a while too, wasn't she? Maybe it's just that left wing murdering dictators are OK, perhaps?

PS. No, I wouldn't expect CH to accept the Newcastle job - or to be offered it.

 

[essbee1]

I'd make it a red line in my contract negotiations that they'd have to put me up in a Premier Inn, at the very least.

But Sharky, would you insist on breakfast being included in the package? Could be the deal-maker.

 

[GT49er]

But Sharky, would you insist on breakfast being included in the package? Could be the deal-maker.

I take it you've never been subhected to a Premier Inn breakfast?

 

[essbee1]

I take it you've never been subhected to a Premier Inn breakfast?

The buffet breakfasts are a thing of wonder GT. A magnificent sausage and bacon mountain.

 

[GT49er]

The buffet breakfasts are a thing of wonder GT. A magnificent sausage and bacon mountain.

Probably better if hot, though...........

 

[essbee1]

Probably better if hot, though...........

Fair point.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I’m not sure a man who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and was a member of the Labour Party under Corbyn, and, as far as I know is still a member, would want to work for a regime that bombs children and kills journalists.

It's a myth that Chris Hughton was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party. He wrote a column for The News Line, the paper of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, as a favour for a friend who was associated with the publication. But it's true that he has been and probably still is a paid-up member of the Labour Party.

 

[Swansman]

Are you sure that anyone who was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and was a member of the Labour Party under Corbyn, and, as far as I know is still a member wouldn't want to work for a regime that bombs children and kills journalists? IIRC, they were great fans of Chairman Mao at one time ............. and the older ones were fans of 'Uncle Joe' before that.

And Aung San Suu Kyi was one of their heroes for a while too, wasn't she? Maybe it's just that left wing murdering dictators are OK, perhaps?

PS. No, I wouldn't expect CH to accept the Newcastle job - or to be offered it.

Yes all socialists love Mao... just like all conservaties love Adolf Hitler.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He did. A great Championship manager (unless you count Forest)


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I don't think it's a great Championship manager that Toon fans want, it's a good Premier League manager that they are after. Leastwise one who can keep them there, without the ignominy that relegation would bring.