Newcastle United – News Roundup – 27 July 2009.
Posted on July 27th, 2009 | 10 Comments |
Alas I must now move on to less celebratory news. Shearer has spoken of his frustration about the current situation at Newcastle United, saying:
“I am the same as everyone else, I am in limbo – I don’t know what is going on.
“I know as much as you. I would dearly love it to be sorted out one way or the other then the club can move forward.
“Everyone is telling me there are people in to buy the club. If that is the case, then great.”
He was also keen to dispel rumours that he’s close to walking away from things:
“I don’t know where that’s come from, it’s certainly not from myself. I want it sorted out as quickly as everyone else does.
“I’m a fan like everyone else and I don’t like to see the situation the club is in.”
The Telegraph is running an article about how ‘directionless’ the club is at the moment, which is hardly news, but they also mention that Coloccini and Gutierrez are targets for Real Zaragoza, Oba Martins is being tracked by Wolfsburg and Harry Redknapp is after Seb Bassong to reinforce his injured defence at Spurs.
Yesterday’s Sunday People reported that Iain Dowie is tired of waiting for Newcastle to sort itself out and applied for the manager’s job at Southampton and that Shearer will instead turn to Gary Speed as his No 2. I’m not sure how the Sunday People knows this as there are no direct quotes, so it’s possible that they just made it up.
The same report also claims that Llambias has said nobody has met Ashley’s £100m asking price for the club. Finally they go on to say that Keith Harris is now away on a fortnight’s holiday and suggest that this means nothing will happen regarding a new owner for at least 2 weeks, taking us into the new season before things are resolved. I’m not sure I really believe that though. Keith Harris may indeed be on holiday but I’m pretty sure he has a phone with him and if any of the interested buyers make a firm offer of the sort that Ashley’s looking for, I’m sure Harris would manage to get things moving forward.
Having said that, I have no reason to believe that anything will happen before the start of the season anyway. I suspect that Ashley’s only concern in all this is that he gets the price he wants for the club and I doubt he’s particularly concerned about the frustrations of the fans, the players and Shearer.
its starting to realy get to me now same old shit every day