Posted March 31, 200916 yr Shearer to become Newcastle boss BBC Sport understands that Alan Shearer will be appointed as Newcastle manager until the end of the season. Magpies legend Shearer, 38, has been continually linked with a return to the club and admitted in September 2008 he would like to be manager. Chris Hughton is currently in caretaker charge at St James' Park as interim manager Joe Kinnear recovers from a triple heart bypass. Shearer rejected an invitation to join Newcastle as a coach last November.
March 31, 200916 yr LOL I was just about to post this. At least they will be happy. I still think they might end up relegated though.
March 31, 200916 yr Cunts. Avoiding all sports channels/pages/forums for the rest of the season now thanks.
April 1, 200916 yr easy to manage a team, if you have the best players, you'll win things, simple. Newcastle don't have the best players
April 1, 200916 yr easy to manage a team, if you have the best players, you'll win things, simple. Newcastle don't have the best players Are you saying Fergie is not an amazing manager then ? :o and that say if Les Reed, Tony Adams, Iain Dowie took over you would still win things ?
April 1, 200916 yr easy to manage a team, if you have the best players, you'll win things, simple. Newcastle don't have the best players the biggest bollocks i have ever heard :mellow:
April 1, 200916 yr the biggest bollocks i have ever heard :mellow: I quite agree. Look at Spurs for example, AC Milan, Bayern Munich. Newcastle have some decent players, but also a lot of $h!t ones. Shearer going to the club will be a massive thing - will lift the players and fans 100%.
April 1, 200916 yr I quite agree. Look at Spurs for example, AC Milan, Bayern Munich. Newcastle have some decent players, but also a lot of $h!t ones. Shearer going to the club will be a massive thing - will lift the players and fans 100%. Not convinced If the players suddenly play better because Shearer has arrived then it means they were not trying hard enough in the first place and are they the sort of players any team would want ? There might be a bigger roar of the crowd at St James' Park but what does Shearer know about tactics, organisation, how defence handle set pieces and so on ? I think Newcastle will stay up but Shearer being the new messiah when he has no coaching experience is a bit premature
April 1, 200916 yr Iain Dowie appointed as his assistant So am guessing Dowie as the experienced one will be doing the tactics, training and so on and Shearer as the motivator/media guy
April 1, 200916 yr Not convinced If the players suddenly play better because Shearer has arrived then it means they were not trying hard enough in the first place and are they the sort of players any team would want ? There might be a bigger roar of the crowd at St James' Park but what does Shearer know about tactics, organisation, how defence handle set pieces and so on ? I think Newcastle will stay up but Shearer being the new messiah when he has no coaching experience is a bit premature I don't think it's much coincidence that 9 out of 10 times a new manager comes the team starts to play better. Granted it doesn't happen all the time. Just because he has no previous managerial experience doesn't mean he's going to be $h!t - look at managers such as Dalglish or Klinsmann! Everyone has to start someone. Now he could be awful as a manager but we don't know that.
April 1, 200916 yr Iain Dowie appointed as his assistant So am guessing Dowie as the experienced one will be doing the tactics, training and so on and Shearer as the motivator/media guy Maybe he'll be able to get Alan Hansen & Mark Lawrenson in to pass on defensive tips. :lol:
April 1, 200916 yr Maybe he'll be able to get Alan Hansen & Mark Lawrenson in to pass on defensive tips. :lol: LOL that would be a nightmare as those 2 were possibly the 2 best defenders I have seen since I been watching football particularly Hansen Hopefully won't happen ^_^
April 1, 200916 yr I don't think it's much coincidence that 9 out of 10 times a new manager comes the team starts to play better. Granted it doesn't happen all the time. Just because he has no previous managerial experience doesn't mean he's going to be $h!t - look at managers such as Dalglish or Klinsmann! Everyone has to start someone. Now he could be awful as a manager but we don't know that. I get what you are saying but Klinsmann had Joachim Low doing all the tactics, training, everything Klinsmann was effectively a figurehead but also he has all the UEFA coaching badges and has studied sports science Has Shearer got the UEFA coaching badges ? Great players though don't always make good managers, for every Dalglish and Klinsmann I could give you Ince, Souness, Adams, Barnes, Keegan etc who have had less than distinguished manager careers Indeed just about every top manager in the English game - Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, Redknapp, etc had modest careers as a player
April 1, 200916 yr LOL that would be a nightmare as those 2 were possibly the 2 best defenders I have seen since I been watching football particularly Hansen Hopefully won't happen ^_^ I don't think they were quite that good. :lol: But with over 850 appearances for Liverpool; 13 League Titles; 5 European Cups; 3 FA Cups & 6 League Cups between them it is something not to be sniffed at. :D
April 1, 200916 yr I get what you are saying but Klinsmann had Joachim Low doing all the tactics, training, everything Klinsmann was effectively a figurehead but also he has all the UEFA coaching badges and has studied sports science Has Shearer got the UEFA coaching badges ? Great players though don't always make good managers, for every Dalglish and Klinsmann I could give you Ince, Souness, Adams, Barnes, Keegan etc who have had less than distinguished manager careers Indeed just about every top manager in the English game - Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, Redknapp, etc had modest careers as a player Mmmm. What about the Greatest British Manager ever: Brian Clough (Lets face it none of the managers in the Premiership today could twice (with Derby County & Nottingham Forest) take an unglamourous side from the bottom of the second tier of football & go on to win the top tier title; then go into the top competition of Europe & make at least the Semi Finals with both sides. Winning the European Cup twice in just four seasons. Playing Career: 274 appearances 261 goals for Middlesbrough & Sunderland (and 2 English caps). Before a cruciate ligament injury ended his career (as it did back pre 1980s) very early (aged 26) and he took up managing. Then there is Bill Shankly : 312 appearances for Preston North End (& 7 Scottish caps) although WW2 took away 6 of his 13 years playing career. Whilst internationally: Franz Beckenbauer, with West Germany, is the only person to date who has won the World Cup as both captain and head coach & Mário Zagallo, with Brazil, also won the World Cup as both player and head coach. Whilst Italy have been managed by the likes of Cesare Maldini (347 appearances for AC Milan & 25 Italy caps); Robert Donadoni (445 appearances including just under 300 for AC Milan & 63 Italy caps); Dino Zoff (642 appearances in top flight Italian football & 112 Italy caps); current Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni (284 appearances (all bar 10 at AC Milan & 17 Italy caps).
April 1, 200916 yr Mmmm. What about the Greatest British Manager ever: Brian Clough (Lets face it none of the managers in the Premiership today could twice (with Derby County & Nottingham Forest) take an unglamourous side from the bottom of the second tier of football & go on to win the top tier title; then go into the top competition of Europe & make at least the Semi Finals with both sides. Winning the European Cup twice in just four seasons. Playing Career: 274 appearances 261 goals for Middlesbrough & Sunderland (and 2 English caps). Before a cruciate ligament injury ended his career (as it did back pre 1980s) very early (aged 26) and he took up managing. Then there is Bill Shankly : 312 appearances for Preston North End (& 7 Scottish caps) although WW2 took away 6 of his 13 years playing career. Whilst internationally: Franz Beckenbauer, with West Germany, is the only person to date who has won the World Cup as both captain and head coach & Mário Zagallo, with Brazil, also won the World Cup as both player and head coach. Whilst Italy have been managed by the likes of Cesare Maldini (347 appearances for AC Milan & 25 Italy caps); Robert Donadoni (445 appearances including just under 300 for AC Milan & 63 Italy caps); Dino Zoff (642 appearances in top flight Italian football & 112 Italy caps); current Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni (284 appearances (all bar 10 at AC Milan & 17 Italy caps). A successful player is always going to have more doors opened for him managerial wise than a less successful player, the likes of Lampard (who I think is going to be a brilliant manager in the future), Terry, Gerrard and so on are virtually all assured of a managerial job when they retire because of their reputation so yeah there are always going to be many managers particularly on the continent who had brilliant playing careers but out of the premiership current managers very few had really successful playing careers and the same goes for Mourinho, Ramos and so on of the recent sacked generation of managers
April 1, 200916 yr Mmmm. What about the Greatest British Manager ever: Brian Clough (Lets face it none of the managers in the Premiership today could twice (with Derby County & Nottingham Forest) take an unglamourous side from the bottom of the second tier of football & go on to win the top tier title; then go into the top competition of Europe & make at least the Semi Finals with both sides. Winning the European Cup twice in just four seasons. Playing Career: 274 appearances 261 goals for Middlesbrough & Sunderland (and 2 English caps). Before a cruciate ligament injury ended his career (as it did back pre 1980s) very early (aged 26) and he took up managing. Then there is Bill Shankly : 312 appearances for Preston North End (& 7 Scottish caps) although WW2 took away 6 of his 13 years playing career. Whilst internationally: Franz Beckenbauer, with West Germany, is the only person to date who has won the World Cup as both captain and head coach & Mário Zagallo, with Brazil, also won the World Cup as both player and head coach. Whilst Italy have been managed by the likes of Cesare Maldini (347 appearances for AC Milan & 25 Italy caps); Robert Donadoni (445 appearances including just under 300 for AC Milan & 63 Italy caps); Dino Zoff (642 appearances in top flight Italian football & 112 Italy caps); current Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni (284 appearances (all bar 10 at AC Milan & 17 Italy caps). Most of Clough's goals were in the second division - or The Championship as we're now expected to call it. I'm not suggesting he wasn't a decent player but he had little experience at the top level. As for Shearer's appointment, with luck it will achieve two things. First, it will keep him off MOTD for the rest of the season - apart from post-match interviews. After all, he's one of the few people who is possibly even more boring than Alastair Darling. Second, if Newcastle go down - and I hope they do - this idea that Shearer is some sort of Messiah can be laid to rest.
April 1, 200916 yr A successful player is always going to have more doors opened for him managerial wise than a less successful player, the likes of Lampard (who I think is going to be a brilliant manager in the future), Terry, Gerrard and so on are virtually all assured of a managerial job when they retire because of their reputation That's true but not necessarily a good thing. Yes, I think Lampard could be a very good manager. Mind you, I thought the same of Tony Adams but so far it looks like I was wrong there. Some great players make great coaches. Glenn Hoddle was one of the best players I've ever seen. As a student I went to Tottenham regularly and he and Ardiles were a joy to watch. Hoddle was also a very good coach. Unfortunately, he was a terrible man manager which was his biggest failing in the England job.
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