With the very unusual news this morning – that there may actually be some good news for the Newcastle United club today, in that Alan Shearer looks like being appointed permanent manager, there’s a lot Alan will want to accomplish as soon as he takes the helm.
Alan Shearer – will be charasmatic leader of Newcastle United – great!
Here are some of the things Alan will want to do, and has been stopped from doing for the last 3 weeks, when he is hopefully appointed permanent manager of Newcastle later this week:
- Understand what the likely transfer fund will be and put in bids for some of his targets – like Per Ciljen Sjkelbred, Jermaine Beckford, Brad Orr and Chris Gunter
- Talk to the players he wants to keep and build a team around – Steve Harper, Steven Taylor, Habib Beye, Nicky Butt, and tell them what his plans are for the close season and next season in the Championship – so get those lads right behind him – which will not be hard, they’ll all be very much relieved – like the rest of us – and they could all do with some good news.
- Get a list of discipline points the players are expected to operate under – like actually being on time for training at 10:00 am each day, much like Jose Mourinho did when he took over at Chelsea, and let them know who the boss will be – but most of them will not need to be told that – hint – his initial are AS
- Talk immediately to Sebastien Bassong and see what the lad is thinking. Bassong did intimate that he liked playing for Alan Shearer a lot, and there’s a chance Alan can persuade him to stay – given the club are willing to pay the lad around £2M/year – he’s worth it. If he stays that would be fantastic fillip for the club and for Alan
- Obviously meet with Iain Dowie and Paul Ferris and take one deep sigh of relief – and then go out to have a pint tonight – if indeed it looks like they will be appointed as the permanent team on Thursday or sometime later this week 😀
- Then start the work tomorrow, and start real planning for the pre-season, including getting pre-season games arranged
- Take players Alan wants to keep at the club off the transfer list immediately – those would probably be the two Taylors, Harper, Beye, Bassong, Butt, Duff and one or two others. We don’t know if Alan will want to keep Kevin Nolan, that’s the only real question, since he’ll want to sell most of the others
- Once Alan is officially appointed hold a press conference, hopefully before the weekend, and let Newcastle fans know what his plans are for the club. We cannot wait to hear about that
But after waiting for an agonizing 3 weeks, if the good news does come through, Alan will be ready to throw himself into the job, and get over the frustrations of the last 3 weeks. There’s certainly lots for him to do, and he knows it.
Of course, the man has handled himself with dignity and poise, during what must have been a very difficult time for him, as it looked like Ashley didn’t really know what he was doing and kept proving it.
But we would have expected nothing less from Alan – a real leader and a real gentleman, who will put both a professional and charismatic face onto his home town club. We cannot wait.
Comments welcome.
67 comments so far
Stardust
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Comment #41Nick 69 – that was explained in full on another thread – rather than boring everyone with the perfectly acceptable explanation I will just post my last entry to you which summed up the whole discussion thread.
“Nick 69 – hilarious – if you read the above and didnt understand – it says far more about you than me – crack on – I am sure there is a window to lick somewhere.”
So my dear boy – crack on……..
Stuart79
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Comment #42Small man syndrome……..
God I hope Shpeherd buys the club!
Nick 69
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Comment #43haha what a fool, i read you post and understood everything perfectly well, and what hugo vianna had to do with anything i will never know, as supporting players was not the subject. but what you fail to understand is that wether you thought it was fraud, rape or whatever you want to call it, you stopped going to watch, which in turn means you stopped supporting which therefore proves your a complete liar seen as you have stated all season long that you always supported the team unconditonally, now wether you dont like whats going on at the club or not, not going to the match is not supporting the team is it you fool. now i don’t expect that you we’re obviously lying, i actually expect that you will come back with the same old bollox you do when anybody shows you to be a complete numpty, you’ll probably tell me how dumb and uninformed i am in comparison with you, the ‘superior’ one, but at the end of the day this about football, not intelligence, and you know naff all about that!
beyethegreat
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Comment #44nick 69
i agree what you have just posted makes perfect sense the same goes for the post last night
komfort
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Comment #45stardust , if your going humiliate stuart with his old postings then while your at it re-post yours , the time you sat in a bar in newcastle with a friend and decided not to go to the game .. the simple reason being you didn’t like the man- no mention of fat fred as the reason you were claiming yesterday..infact you never returned that season to SUPPORT the team that qualified for europe..
dont say one thing & do another .. JUST SUPPORT
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Comment #46Stardust said … “you were shown to be a liar claiming expert knowledge and you knew the square root of zero”.
Pot and kettle come to mind eh Narcissus?
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Comment #47Narcissus?
I’m sure Sawdust’ll post a personal profile that’ll help all understand Narcissism!
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Comment #48What’s Stardust doing back on here anyway? Has he/ she/ it been banned by his own blog?
Stardust
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Comment #49Nick 69.
Poor poor boy.
The paradox of your understanding.
I gave the analogy last night – a man loves to make love to a woman, but would a man like to watch another man rape a woman.
FFS and his cohorts removed every penny of NUFCS money, you money, my money – into their grubby pockets, those myself included, who had taken the time to read the accounts, understood what was happening and we were finished.
I was unhappy and disheartened – particulalrly when the fans claimed FFS always supported the manager – but that was to the tune of 10m net per annum ave over 10 years, Mike Ashley himself has spent far more than that, and that is not including the fact that he never paid for Owen etc.
I saw Glen Roeder as the puppet FFS used to scam us, to sign Boumsong for 8m when he was available on a free 6 months earlier – the same transfer investigated by the SFO.
So my disgust was not negative on the club in terms of financial support, as I had paid for my seat, nor did I demo against the players. I lost faith in the fans for allowing it to happen, who spouted platitudes that FFS always backed his manager.
Nor did my disgust have an effect on the team. So I was supporting just from afar. Your logic seems to dictate you have to be in the ground to support, mine is far greater than that.
Support is simply that support, it does not depend on geographical location, it is a mindset, but again you cant step out of that 1st year primary school logic.
Maybe if Ed put a blackboard on the blog I could draw it in crayons for you.
Stardust
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Comment #50Komfort – make no mistake i had no time for Roeder – who I saw as a spineless creep – just ask Harry Redknapp how Mr Roeder did his legs to get the West Ham job.
The time you describe when I didnt go to the game is correct, but in the previous post I hopefully have explained further as to why.
Stuart79
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Comment #51Stardust accuses FFS of raping the club then boycotted the games.
But let me get this right- He still gave the club his money by paying for his season ticket?
Strange decision considering he was accusing him of theft.
Once again little man syndrome!
Nick 69
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Comment #52nobody was talking about financially supporting the team, fact is any real fan, who had a ticket, would be at the match! and answer me this, if by not going to the match is still supporting the team, how can you sit and say that people who went to the match, but made their voices heard before it, are not supporting?? afterall they were still supporting the club financially, and physically by being at the match? so again, how is that not supporting???
Stardust
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Comment #53It was my right Stuart – didnt affect anyone or the team – I was very saddened at what he was doing. The ticket was paid for.
Cant replay to the myriad of slander i will get – off to a meeting.
beyethegreat
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Comment #54nick 69
why do you even try lol
Nick 69
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Comment #55beye- god knows, i think ill just stick to coming on here and actually discussing football with people like you, instead of discussing the clubs finances, which it seems some people are more interested in than the actual football!
Stuart79
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Comment #56He’s off to meet his benifits officer….
komfort
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Comment #57to climb out of the trenches in or hour of need – re: from a potential relegating battle to european qaulification is your call..
personally i couldn’t do that..
beyethegreat
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Comment #58nick 69
i sued to understand where stardust was coming from now i am puzzled as his opionions on ffs and “supporting the team” are completely contradictory
ObaFan2
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Comment #59Nick, Stuart and others, I love the banter here but hate the “you’re wrong I’m always right” posts/posters we get here.
We discuss and voice our opinions mostly.
Ofc there’s facts like player costs etc but everyone here should be able to voice their opinions without being slagged off IMO.
Toon_Ksk (Huh? u mean David Craig is real?)
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Comment #60Stardust // Jun 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Lesh – opinions are born out of character – I accept they cause difficulty to those without it.
>>HA! The irony. You are allowed to have opinions and at the same time you couldn’t stop to have a dig at Ed. The greatest irony is that you kept criticising Ed but you couldn’t stop coming back here to read through all his articles.
Enough said, you are just sad and pathetic, I would rather have a couple more Spurs fans digging at us than to see hypocritical Newcastle fans around here.
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Comment #61No responses from Narcissus yet…. what ya doing Sawdust, trying to pen your personal profile to not blow your cover?
As far as his sniping at Ed, perhaps Narcissus might be willing to be writing articles at 3am US time as Ed does?
Can’t see it somehow, it’d take him hours to drag himself away from the mirror!
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Comment #62Sawdust off to a meeting with…. the mirror?
Have yo get him a little bell to hang beside it!
lesh
Jun 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Comment #63yo = to….. why the bell? So he can ring it when he squawks “whos’ a pretty boy then” Ting!
NorthernPaul
Jun 16, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Comment #64Stardust // Jan 29, 2009 at 12:19 PM
I awoke from a deep sleep, NUFC were financially crippled, wages were 70% of turnover which meant we would lose money again this year, no money for signings – as we can’t add to the wage bill, I asked why we were like this.
Because we were on the Bus to oblivion being driven by Shepherd was the answer, he has taken 35million in dividends when we had lost 55million – Oh I exclaimed.
On speaking to bystanders I was told the club were paying the conductors were getting paid 80k a week but they has stress and couldn’t work, the mechanics were on 70k a week, but didn’t like oil, others who were on similar wages just weren’t performing. They looked closer and saw that all the money in ticket sales had been removed from the Bus company as dividends, nothing was left. The passengers asked where are we headed, “Leeds is just ahead” was the reply. I looked out of the window, I could see the Leeds Hilton Hotel, just beyond it Leeds Station and Leeds University, it was true, the tachograph also told the same story.
Well just turn the bus back to Newcastle I said to the passengers, we cant, no-one can do it, the engineers wont engineer, the driver is taking us there, and the conductor just can be bothered. Employ someone else to do it, we cant came the reply we cant afford any wages we are imploding and going to crash.
Suddenly a multi-billionaire called Mike stormed onto the bus, he was an expert engineer and he could drive, albeit a car but he hadn’t driven a bus before.
So what of this new driver – Apparently he has cleared out all of our debt from his own pocket – impeccable pedigree, he has shown himself to be incredibly successful.
Yes he has cleared off the debt, we’ve seen the buses account, but we hate him – he is just going to make money out of us shouted the passengers, “Sorry” I exclaimed “I don’t understand”. We were going to crash and he is steering us to safety. Don’t Care – came the reply, get more people on the bus, but how? We have no money, don’t care get more people on the bus.
Mike slowed the bus and started to turn it around, Mike being an expert looked at the paint, he had his best coachworkers look at the bus. “Bodge came the reply. The chassis is rotten, the suspension cant take this load, the engine is lazy and sluggish yet incredibly expensive to run, in fact the whole bus is being held together by its Shiny Red Paint.
Mike used to be a strong and wealthy man, but in between buying the bus and starting to mend it he had lost most of his wealth so he didn’t have the money to put things right the way he wanted to, he envisaged fun and jy at owning the bus, reality was settling in.
“We hate him” the passenger shout, in looking at the chassis he scratched and chipped the paint. And now he is throwing the staff off, he says he doesn’t want them as they are lazy, always off sick, he wants to make the bus go faster with a new fuel in the engine, a fuel that is a mix of youth and experience.
The freeloaders were thrown off, Mike stripped off the thin veneer of paint, and found rust everywhere, he stripped it all out until it was back to bare metal. He started rebuilding the bu, he brought in cheaper but more eager and better skilled workers. He could not do it all at once as the lazy underperformers had long contracts, removing and replacing staff was an almost impossible task that had to be handled carefully.
Mike eventually got the steering working, the bus had a direction again, the new youth fuel showed great promise, the experience mix, at the right price was harder to find, Mike knew not to buy the wrong or expensive to run fuel or his bus would grind to a halt, he was prepared to run light for a while and only add people to his bus that would make it run faster. As the bus travelled back to Newcastle the panels were all new, the chassis firm, and they knew things were being put back together. The new windows went in, the seats were replaced, and they scoured the world for the best staff who would work for reasonable wages. They couldn’t afford anything else.
As they approached Newcastle and drove over the tyne bridge, a team of engineers on the bridge marveled at the new panels and improved chassis, Mike shouted that he would improve the engine even more in time, the windows gleamed, the bus was solid, it was able free of some of the lead weight able to move and turn quicker.
As the past the engineers as crowd gathered – “Where’s our red Paint” they screamed, the red panels were replaced by a stealy grey metal finish, mike couldn’t afford to add the finishing touches, he had been rebuilding the chassis and mechanics first.
Wheres our Red paint – a Mob gathered. Mike came out he made a statement, produced his figures, explained he had a limited budget. The Crowd were incensed. Wheres our red paint.
One of the gathering crowd threw a brick and smashed the windscreen, taking mikes attention away from the road, the engineers screamed “ no the bus is starting to work now you need patience, it’s the only way” the mob didn’t hear it was furious.
A second brick, a third and a barrage. The bus windows and panels smashed, the wiring and seats were ripped out, the tyres slashed, then a petrol bomb, Mike didn’t know what to do. As the mob pelted the bus he was sad as they had simply misunderstood. Perhaps if I had told them exactly what I was doing he reflected – maybe he was right.
Mike tried to sell the bus, he couldn’t no-one would buy it, so he thought he would put it back together, he knew as he was an engineer, the only way to make it work was to start with the chassis again, when Wise man Shepherd came to his side. “Paint it red son, Paint it red – forget your new fuel, forget the chassis, the passengers are happy with getting from A to B, and you can take as much as you want from the club with a bright red bus, they just hope to get to the journeys end although we never do, and when we nearly got to leeds you turned us around”
Mike believed passionately he wanted to get to many journeys ends and see great things, he knew that started with getting the right people on the bus, he knew how to build a real bus despite everyone telling him he didn’t know how. He knew engineers built things that lasted forever and other engineers would appreciate what he would done, in time those who simply wanted red paint would have to understand – a bus needs something that holds it together.
Mike went back to his bus, the crowd were there, painting the rusting shell and burned out wreckage bright Red, even though the bus could no longer move.
The crowd looked at Mike and realised that the bus chassis, even though burned was stronger than a year before.
Question – do you want Mike to build the chassis and add the staff and fuel it can afford over time to get to many happy journeys end – or do you want the bus painted red?
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NorthernPaul // Jan 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Stardust:
All very well mate, nice cut and paste.
It wont help when we’re in the frigging lower divisions, and our better players have left though will it.
We need a compromise. We do actually NEED a little bit of red paint. If you cant see that, then you’re deluded.
None of us are asking for 200million to be spent, all we want is the obvious gaps filled in the squad.
We want to stay in Englands top league. We dont demand to win it. Not right now anyway. All we want is the club to put out a team which will avoid relegation.
As it stands, we are going down. You can repair your fu!king bus all you want, but to plan for the long term, you have to put things right in the short term otherwise it is pointless.
GeordieLander
Jun 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Comment #65I was just about to post a comment regarding the potential exciting news should Shearer take the Job.. and then I read the ramblings of Stardust. Does anyone know if he is as delusional as he appears. Does he actually support Ashley and Co. ??
I ask the other bloggers as I fear a reply from Stardust will be laced with dribble !
toonluvva
Jun 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Comment #66I quite enjoyed the post from NorthernPaul. He hit on the one redeeming point in favour for MA, namely that he probably saved us from going bust and hitting the Championship earlier and possibly playing in Div 1 next season.
Stuart79
Jun 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Comment #67GeordieLander // Jun 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Laced with Arsnic hopefully!