Your Shout: Think Big Freddy Shepherd
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Newcastle-Online.com reader Mikey, writes in pleading with Newcastle
United to think big, and to aim high. Also pleading with fellow fans
to put pressure on the club to go all out for a top manager.
I could have started this rant with three words... end the misery.
But I don't need to now, thank God. Because Souness has gone. Worst
thing is, he shouldn't have been here in the first place.
Knock the guy for his sheer ineptitude as far as motivation and tactics
go, but don't knock him for coming here - the guy was offered the
chance of joining a bigger and better club and took it. No-one can
blame him for that.
The blame has to be heaped on the chairman for his decision to bring
him here. Don't let Freddie off the hook fellow fans - this IS his
last chance to get it right.
Thank you Souness for bringing in Owen, Parker and Emre and for bringing
on young Taylor - a star for the future (And bringing back Nobby.
Why, Bobby, why? Fool).
But now we have to forget what has happened to a club that was top
5 not too long ago and get back there. Although with no money that'll
be some task. Who can do it?
I've said it before on this forum, but looking to O'Neill, Allardyce
and other British managers may not be right for NUFC in the long term.
Look at Chelsea (bastards - riches that wretched club scarcely deserve
- there really is no God in football), Liverpool and Arsenal - foreign
influence reaps results with or without money.
As the top story on this site says today - look to Hitzfeld. I mean,
he's only won two European cups and reached the final another time
after all. Have Big Sam or O'Neill done that? There's also Hiddink
(England bound? Damn. Sorry fellow Toon fans - being a Scot and all!),
Le Guen, Ranieri or even Van Gaal to consider.
And, under the circumstances, getting Eriksson in might not be a bad
move - he's managed and is respected by Owen after all. But to you
fellow fans down there in the Toon I plead - please, please, please
make your case to Shepherd, the local media and at matches for Hitzfeld.
He has to listen this time - although I fear he won't. (Don't underestimate
fan power. Maybe that's been a huge flaw with this club - we haven't
used it enough. Souness' neck should have been on the line after Lisbon
last year. A disgrace.)
Just consider this. Remember Arsenal ten years ago under Rioch (Or
I'm sure it was him anyway). Going nowhere. Wenger came in, brought
in young foreigners to mix with the British core of the team. That
was in late 1996. By May 1998 they were champions, playing some of
the best football any of us are ever likely to see - and after not
spending a huge amount of cash - as far as I can remember anyway.
Now I'm not saying this'll happen to Newcastle Utd - but there's more
chance of it happening under someone like Hitzfeld, Hiddink or the
like than Allardyce or O'Neill.
Let's just hope we can survive this season - which I think we can
when players come back and the spirits are better. So all the best
to Glenn (Decent bloke if there ever was one) and Shearer for the
rest of the season. Please fans see through the attraction of an Allardyce
or O'Neill - can they make the step up to being a top coach with a
TOP team in a TOP league. It's not worth the risk for NUFC this time
in my opinion.
It's all very well with Bolton, Leicester or Celtic over the border
here, but... Why not think big with Hitzfeld - or really trying for
Hiddink, despite the odds against us with him? Look at the first team
starters we've got when fully fit - Given, Boumsong (Terrible season
- but why has he flourished everywhere else except under Souness?
Ever watched the guy for France, Auxerre or even Rangers at times?
Class. PS I'm not pissed by the way), Taylor, Solano/Dyer, Emre, Parker,
Luque (See Boumsong comment above), young N'Zogbia's got a future,
and Owen.
A fine core to build a team from. Someone like Hitzfeld or Hiddink
would have a field day building around that bunch. What top coach
wouldn't want to try it out. Apart from the big three - Man Utd, Liverpool,
Arsenal - and the soul destroyers of football from West London (And
maybe Spurs too. Look at Jol - see where I'm coming from with the
foreigners rant?) - that core is a match for many in the Premiership.
Squad depth is the problem. But not with a top, top coach at the cub
I reckon. What do other fans think of this?
PS - Does anyone know any Russian billionaires - or better, any Saudi
Arabian oil barons with an interest in football? You never know! Keep
The Faith.
Mikey
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