Newcastle buyout

[Tucker]

Rodgers ---> Newcastle
Potter---> Leicester
Spurs --->

He’d be mad to go to Newcastle. They’ll want immediate success and they‘ll burn through a few managers before they find the right setup. He’s onto a good thing at Leicester and he knows it.

 

[Guntz]

He’d be mad to go to Newcastle. They’ll want immediate success and they‘ll burn through a few managers before they find the right setup. He’s onto a good thing at Leicester and he knows it.

He might feel that he's taken Leicester as far as he can.

If Newcastle manages to stay up this year, he will have a blank cheque to mould the team how he wants.

I can see him going tbh.

 

[Albertbarich]

He’d be mad to go to Newcastle. They’ll want immediate success and they‘ll burn through a few managers before they find the right setup. He’s onto a good thing at Leicester and he knows it.

They can quadruple his salary though and give him a transfer budget like no other.

He isn't exactly known for his morals either.

 

[wiggo24]

Rodgers ---> Newcastle
Potter---> Leicester
Spurs --->

Potter would be superb at Leicester. Perfect next step for him tbh.

 

[Guntz]

Potter would be superb at Leicester. Perfect next step for him tbh.

Yup he's the perfect manager for them.

 

[Spurslove]

They can quadruple his salary though and give him a transfer budget like no other.

He isn't exactly known for his morals either.

I think we'll all be able to draw our own conclusions about him if he goes to Newcastle, having turned us down point blank, when we were a much bigger club than they were.

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[spursfan77]

Rodgers ---> Newcastle
Potter---> Leicester
Spurs --->

Don’t get too excited, Rodgers turns it down too. Nobody wants the job it seems.

 

[Spurslove]

Don’t get too excited, Rodgers turns it down too. Nobody wants the job it seems.

Fair do's. I take it all back. ?‍

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[spursfan77]

Fair do's. I take it all back. ?‍

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He won’t be the last to turn it down either. Conte, Howe, Lampard and now Rodgers. Rangnick has no interest in being the DofF either.

This is quite good from the athletic newcastle correspondence on how there will be so many agents putting their clients forward for it and usuing journos and journos just making stuff up. DiMarzio goes in the latter it seems.

Conte or Howe, transfer targets and St James’ Park future – George Caulkin’s Newcastle takeover mailbag
https://theathletic.com/2884186/202...-takeover-mailbag/?source=user_shared_article

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Spoiler

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The key appointments​

I guess the only question most of us have right now is who will replace Bruce? Any rumours? Anyone pimping their CV behind the scenes? – James E.

Much pimping, James! And many rumours! We’re going to have to get used to this – someone spotting Antonio Conte in a Byker hair-replacement studio or Jose Mourinho buying pork knuckle in Grainger Market. The first thing to say is that, at the time of writing, Bruce is his still in his role, although I don’t expect that to remain the case for very long. Why is he still there in the first place? We come back to the “long and arduous process,” I mentioned above, which I’m not sure people have fully grasped yet. Decisions have to be signed off and that will take time.

And this has all happened very quickly. One of the group’s football advisors arrived in Newcastle last Wednesday – when he left his house in the north-west that morning, he was expecting to drive to London for a wholly different matter. There have been low-level chats about recruitment of staff and players in recent weeks, but this was more of a ticking over than the serious, intense discussions that were happening 18 months ago. Until it actually happened, the takeover felt very distant, even to them. Everybody has been caught on the hop.

There are also three spokes to Newcastle’s ownership. That means there are three sets of opinions, if not more and three sets of people receiving information or messages from contacts, from agents, from total strangers. Their football advisors (I’ll talk about them later), have compiled a list of potential managerial targets but those advisors have not yet had their own roles formalised or their contracts signed, which should give an indication of where things stand. I haven’t seen that list, but I’ll come on to individual names in a while.

A name I’ve been surprised I haven’t seen more of on the rumour front however is Eddie Howe. Do you know if there is any interest from either party? – Chris O.

I know that members of the board have discussed Howe amongst themselves, but I don’t think he’s on the list I mentioned (they don’t have to stick to that list, of course!). Howe makes sense in some ways – he built Bournemouth, took them into the Premier League and did a brilliant job. Newcastle is very different to Bournemouth, though; bigger, louder, far more intense and demanding of managers. Bournemouth were also relegated under him. Look at where Newcastle are in the table.

Is Lucien Favre a genuine target and will his problems with (Allan) Saint-Maximin influence whether he joins or not? – Eoin S.

He is another person they have spoken about and sought outside opinion on.. Would his previous history with Saint-Maximin play a part? I don’t know, sorry.

Have you heard of any names being considered for a Director of Football role, and do you think a Director of Football/head coach structure is the best option for Newcastle? – Evin C.

Can you tell Staveley and co that Ralf Rangnick and Graham Potter would be the dream ticket? – Paul T.

OK, so this is another area where I have to give some perspective. “No set-up, no structure is set in stone,” a good source told me on Monday night.

What we have to remember is that although Staveley and co have had plenty of time to study Newcastle’s books, they were under orders from Ashley not to speak to anybody employed by the club until the deal went through. They had met and talked to nobody until last week and had not visited the training ground until Monday. “We need to go in and do a very robust assessment of where the club is at every level and then come back and make decisions,” Staveley said.

While they do that, a report will be put together – what do they want the club to look like, what will the structure be? They have had plenty of ideas in the past, but individuals – like Benitez, for instance – have moved on and so those ideas have never crystallised.

At the same time, they will have to inquire about who might be available, so we can all expect a steady drip of names and stories. They will also be bombarded by agents telling them their clients are available. Some will use the media. Doesn’t mean they’ll be appointed, doesn’t mean they won’t be.

For a variety of complicated reasons, I was told there’s “no chance” of Rangnick coming to Newcastle, but I’m not setting that in stone either yet. I just don’t think the club are at the decision-making stage and won’t be for a while.

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[Tucker]

He won’t be the last to turn it down either. Conte, Howe, Lampard and now Rodgers. Rangnick has no interest in being the DofF either.

This is quite good from the athletic newcastle correspondence on how there will be so many agents putting their clients forward for it and usuing journos and journos just making stuff up. DiMarzio goes in the latter it seems.

Conte or Howe, transfer targets and St James’ Park future – George Caulkin’s Newcastle takeover mailbag
https://theathletic.com/2884186/202...-takeover-mailbag/?source=user_shared_article

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Spoiler

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The key appointments​

I guess the only question most of us have right now is who will replace Bruce? Any rumours? Anyone pimping their CV behind the scenes? – James E.

Much pimping, James! And many rumours! We’re going to have to get used to this – someone spotting Antonio Conte in a Byker hair-replacement studio or Jose Mourinho buying pork knuckle in Grainger Market. The first thing to say is that, at the time of writing, Bruce is his still in his role, although I don’t expect that to remain the case for very long. Why is he still there in the first place? We come back to the “long and arduous process,” I mentioned above, which I’m not sure people have fully grasped yet. Decisions have to be signed off and that will take time.

And this has all happened very quickly. One of the group’s football advisors arrived in Newcastle last Wednesday – when he left his house in the north-west that morning, he was expecting to drive to London for a wholly different matter. There have been low-level chats about recruitment of staff and players in recent weeks, but this was more of a ticking over than the serious, intense discussions that were happening 18 months ago. Until it actually happened, the takeover felt very distant, even to them. Everybody has been caught on the hop.

There are also three spokes to Newcastle’s ownership. That means there are three sets of opinions, if not more and three sets of people receiving information or messages from contacts, from agents, from total strangers. Their football advisors (I’ll talk about them later), have compiled a list of potential managerial targets but those advisors have not yet had their own roles formalised or their contracts signed, which should give an indication of where things stand. I haven’t seen that list, but I’ll come on to individual names in a while.

A name I’ve been surprised I haven’t seen more of on the rumour front however is Eddie Howe. Do you know if there is any interest from either party? – Chris O.

I know that members of the board have discussed Howe amongst themselves, but I don’t think he’s on the list I mentioned (they don’t have to stick to that list, of course!). Howe makes sense in some ways – he built Bournemouth, took them into the Premier League and did a brilliant job. Newcastle is very different to Bournemouth, though; bigger, louder, far more intense and demanding of managers. Bournemouth were also relegated under him. Look at where Newcastle are in the table.

Is Lucien Favre a genuine target and will his problems with (Allan) Saint-Maximin influence whether he joins or not? – Eoin S.

He is another person they have spoken about and sought outside opinion on.. Would his previous history with Saint-Maximin play a part? I don’t know, sorry.

Have you heard of any names being considered for a Director of Football role, and do you think a Director of Football/head coach structure is the best option for Newcastle? – Evin C.

Can you tell Staveley and co that Ralf Rangnick and Graham Potter would be the dream ticket? – Paul T.

OK, so this is another area where I have to give some perspective. “No set-up, no structure is set in stone,” a good source told me on Monday night.

What we have to remember is that although Staveley and co have had plenty of time to study Newcastle’s books, they were under orders from Ashley not to speak to anybody employed by the club until the deal went through. They had met and talked to nobody until last week and had not visited the training ground until Monday. “We need to go in and do a very robust assessment of where the club is at every level and then come back and make decisions,” Staveley said.

While they do that, a report will be put together – what do they want the club to look like, what will the structure be? They have had plenty of ideas in the past, but individuals – like Benitez, for instance – have moved on and so those ideas have never crystallised.

At the same time, they will have to inquire about who might be available, so we can all expect a steady drip of names and stories. They will also be bombarded by agents telling them their clients are available. Some will use the media. Doesn’t mean they’ll be appointed, doesn’t mean they won’t be.

For a variety of complicated reasons, I was told there’s “no chance” of Rangnick coming to Newcastle, but I’m not setting that in stone either yet. I just don’t think the club are at the decision-making stage and won’t be for a while.

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Sounds like a lot of people don’t want to be associated with them. Good. I’m sure they’ll find someone eventually, but the more people turn them down the more awkward it will look for the person who decides to bloody their hands.

 

[Dougal]