Newcastle United have today parted company with Sam Allardyce as its Manager with immediate effect. Sam was only appointed in mid-May but has had a terrible string of results with the club for a couple of months.
Sam Allardyce – left by mutual consent is the party word
The decision for Sam to leave Newcastle United was said to have been reached by mutual agreement between Sam and the club. But that is the usual message issued and we expect that Sam was asked to leave. Certainly there’s no way he diodn’t want to remain in the job at the club, if he could.
Newcastle United Chairman Chris Mort said this afternoon:
“Mike and I would like to place on record our thanks for Sam’s efforts and wish him well for the future.”
“A new manager has not yet been appointed at Newcastle United. We will make a further announcement on the managerial position when appropriate.”
Sam Allardyce said:
“I am disappointed to be leaving Newcastle United but I wish the Club all the best for the remainder of the season and for the future.”
First Team coach Nigel Pearson will take charge of the team for Saturday’s game at Manchester United.
This is a big shock, but surely the club have someone else lined up to take over the manager position at Newcastle United. We can only assume that Chris and Mike have talked to Alan Shearer, and that Alan has agreed to manage the club. We assume an announcement will be made very shortly on this.
Comments welcome.
57 comments so far
Michael Stewart
Jan 9, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Comment #41What a joke our club is right now. How on earth are we supposed to attract a manager of proven calibre with the quick-fire approach that the club takes to its managers. No players will want to come to this club as well, and i can forsee a mass exodus of players in the summer, including Owen.
Newcastle have been playing awful recently admittedly, but they are still 11th in the league. Jesus Christ, Sam said that it was a 3 to five year job, and they go and get rid of him after just seven months.
From what I heard he was doing great things in the background of the club, the academy and training facilities etc. I would have given him another season and a half. If there had been no tangible progress by then, then sure sack him. But right now? A joke, in all honesty.
scott9
Jan 9, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Comment #42WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE WE WILL NEVER LEARN IM WITH TOON KING WERE BECOMING A F*CKING JOKE I AM GUTTED IN FACT WORSE IM DISTRAUGHT HE WOULD HAVE TURNED US INTO A TIOP 4 CLUBB IN 5 YEARS WE WILL NEVER LEARN MANAGERS NEED TIME ESPECIALY WHEN THEY COME AND HAVE TO DEMOLISH THERE SQAUD AND GET 9 PLAYERS IN AS SOON AS THEY START WORK
AND EVERYONE GOING ON ABOUT MOURINHO ITS NOT ITS SHEARER EVERYONE SHOULD NOW SHEARERS GUARANTEED TO GET THE JOB.
AND CAN I ASK THE LIKES OF TOM_TOON WHEN SHEARER COMES IN ARE U WILLING TO GIVE HIM TIME OR ARE U GONNA DRIVE HIM OUT ASWELL CAUSE I TELL U AT THE START IT WILL BE HARD FOR HIM HE WILL NEED TIME MORE TIME THAN BIG SAM ALOT OF U WANT TO SEE NICE FOOTBALL EVERY GAME BUT AT THEY END OF THE DAY WOULD U RATHER WIN THE LEAGUE WITH UGLY FOOTBALL OR COME 10TH AND PLAY NICE FOOTBALL AS SHEARER SAID TO WENGER U CANT WIN THE LEAGUE PLAYING NICE FOOTBALL EVERY GAME
scott9
Jan 9, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Comment #43WERE GONNA BE IN A RELAGATION BATTLE WE BE SITTING COMFORTABLE IN MID TABLE IF ALLARDYCE WAS STILL MANAGER AND THATS AN IMPROVEMENT
Ruud Boy
Jan 9, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Comment #44THIS IS THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE HEARD IN YEARS. I AM NOW WORRIDED, LIKE SCOTT9, THAT WE GET RELAGATED. The most stupid thing is that some people say this is the right decision. 11 managers in 11 years. Every club, every baby, every granny, anyone who is even heard of the word football, is laughing at us right now. Allardyce took 5 years get good at Bolton, he needed time. IMO the only way to redeem ourselves is to get Jose M
Over the years of underachieving we all must have realised that consistency is your problem; that comes from the top. A new manager will come in and change tactics, positions and the same comments will come out as have done season on season.
Bryan
Jan 9, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Comment #45I was never in favour of SA when he was appointed, and I am pleased he has been sacked. BUT.
Unless CM & MA have a top, top manager lined up, and not Shearer, then whats the point of sacking him now? Our season is finished anyway, and has been for a while now, so I think the club should have waited until the summer before getting rid of him. That would have given the new man a whole pre season to get to grips with the club.
If MA is serious about taking this club to the level all us fans think it should be at, then he needs to appoint a big name with a proven track record and give him the funds to do it.
The bad news is, I heard that the board are already saying the next manager will not be a foreigner, that basically rules out 99% of fans choice of manager. You know the list.
Our club has been dragged through the mud lately and tonight we are being hammered again.
The board have to make the right appointment unless they are going to be a bigger laughing stock then the last ones.
Please go for a foreigner, theres only one, MOURINEO. (Sorry about the spelling)
Southern_Magpie
Jan 9, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Comment #46The timing of this decision is bemusing, along with the fact that the club have said that they will take time in making the new appointment as there is no successor in the pipeline.
It is a sad fact about the lack of top quality English managers today, but the news that the club will not be appointing a foreign coach has not filled me with much optimism to say the least.
We all know Sam was originally Shepherd’s appointment and is seen as his last mistake. Now he has gone the true new era can start but this manager MUST be proven with known class. If the appointment is wrong we’ll be back to where we are now again before long.
Redknapp would be my favored British choice, but would be well down the list if foreign coaches were included.
milnerfan
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Comment #47Mort and Mike u muppets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sacked the best manager we av ad in several seasons, u cnt keep doing this! Ow bout each fan manages the club for a week den you sack em. That way we can never ever ever be successful!
Elliott
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Comment #48For God’s sake Mourinho isn’t allowed to manage in the prem this season so unless Pearson is gonna take orders from him over the phone until May it ain’t gonna happen. Like it would anyway.
Elliott
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Comment #49Maybe we’re getting Coleman. Yay!
Eve
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Comment #50Great just great, wrote a very long rant, I post it and what happens..SUSPENDED. GRRR. This is going to be bloody long because I’m bloody pissed off.
They’ve really done it now, now first of all, talk about completely out of the blue. Now ya we’ve been having a crap season so far and there’s been talks of him leaving, but there was no build up as such. No big embarrassing loss. Now I’d have been waiting for the news to come through if we’d have lost to Stokes 5-0, but we didn’t. There was no real obvious sign.
And like the season is only half over, we’re in a small bit of a crisis, we’re playing badly, our team morale is low and now to top it all off, now we’ve no manager. You’d think that they’d have one lined up, but I doubt it. This is a joke.
Now I don’t like the man, never did. I didn’t like his team selection, his tactics, his decisions, the way he always moaned and blamed the players, just overall I didn’t like him. But surely he deserved more then 5 months. It’s going to take years to get the club off the ground, we’re not anywhere near as good as some of ye think we are, we demand success and thereby we basically hang the manager if he slips up. Which we’ve done now. Now I’m not saying that he didn’t deserve in some way to be sacked eventually. But what are we doing here.
We’ve had 7 managers in about 10 years. That means Given and Harper have seen 7 managers come and go, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d a bet going on how long Sam would last. It’s ridiculous.
What next, Shearer, why?? Cause he was a great player, but players don’t always make good managers, look at what happened with Ireland. They hired Steve Staunton an ex very good player. Ya, it was a country he was managing, a lot pressure, but he’d never managed anyone ever before, and he got more then a fair share of chances. Too many chances, he completely took a team that was decent enough, and just messed it up completely but the senior long serving players like Given backed him, he was their friend, they’d played with him, he’d been their captain for a while. The FAI wouldn’t fire him because of him being their best friend. In the end it was messy, and long drawn out process, where the fans had completley turned on him. I don’t want to see that happen. Now with Shearer, he should go somewhere else first, somewhere where he’s not in the history books.
But then you look at Keane who did a very good job with Sunderland when he arrived, bottom to top in one season, and in fairness he’s doing an all right job, the results are going against him right now but he’s learning all the time, the premiership’s a hard place to learn the job but I think that he’s made of the right stuff to come through it.
IMO, Shearer isn’t. Not yet. The one thing that we would give Shearer that we seem incapable of giving anyone else (except maybe Mourinho,) is TIME, the board will him time and more importantly so will the FANS.
It’s bull that he’s gone now we should have had given him the season to at least try and prove himself or at least of had someone lined up before he was fired. But no, now instead we’re half way through the season with bad performances, low morale and now no manager. They really no how to pick they’re timing don’t they.
Lets see them fix this one. They’ve really done it now.
Grunde Axelsen
Jan 9, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Comment #51NUFC has made one big mistake here! Big Sam is a great manager and should have been given time to turn things around! We will not be able to do anything this season whatsoever, so why not let him finish the season, see how we can improve and try to get a good foundation for next season. Or; fire him, fire the next, the next and the next! Complete and utter stupidity! We are an average side at best and will never win anything if we keep on sacking everyone.
yong
Jan 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Comment #52go for Mourinho or Klinsmann
die hard toon
Jan 9, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Comment #5321 Premier League games is not much time but Sam seem like he had no plans in changing his style or stop playing men out of position.I do hope we get Hitzfeld he is my first pick we need a top class manager if Ashley really meant what he said about winning the League in 3yrs time.
Greg
Jan 10, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Comment #54relegated some of you have lost the PLOT!
Theres no chance we are getting relegated, we have a talented squad.
I think sam should have been giving the season but to be honest we are GASH! you cant play so many ppl out of position like he did.
lezb
Jan 10, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Comment #55NUFC has made one big mistake here! Big Sam is a great manager and should have been given time to turn things around!
And the planet you come from is?????????Get real
die hard toon
Jan 10, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Comment #56The only problem with Hitzfeld is he @ Bayern to the end of the season so who until then if it was him.
Fumi
Jan 10, 2008 at 2:08 AM
Comment #57Yes we will delight that our LEGEND Shearer as our manager, but hey now already half of the season gone, and I m not sure that capable is Shearer due to the experience he has now. I really don’t want to see Shearer is one of the manager that booed at home St James Park if the team is playing like shit. Sigh…………is there any better solution? I think is not a rite time yet to Shearer