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Originally Posted by Pierre
Whoever takes over at Newcastle must be given time - personally though I hope they go into freefall and go back to the lower tier of English football.
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Exactly. I think that Newcastle (to an extent) have the potential to become a big club. My reasons for thinking this are:
They have the fans who will follow them wherever they play and they've never exactly been short of money and the chairmen always 100% backed their managers in the transfer market where possible (or so it seems at least).
Where it all comes unstuck though is when the managers have dabbled in the transfer market and haven't come up with the success that is expected by both the chairmen and the fans... so the manager gets the boot.
I think Sam's problem is that he has been at Bolton for a long time and has enjoyed success (he didn't actually win anything (off the top of my head) but he did alright) from playing like early 1990's Wimbledon FC (long ball etc). I doubt that Newcastle's fans would take kindly to that kind of thing. They expect "sexy football" (as per Ruud Gullit - who was also sacked if I remember right) and to win game in and game out. Basically to cut it short, they want to have their cake and be able to eat it.