Shearer still wants Toon job but is not holding is breath.
Posted on October 17th, 2009 | 27 Comments |
With Barry Moat’s bid – or indeed anyone else’s bid – looking less likely to succeed as time goes on, Shearer’s chances of becoming Newcastle manager this season are fading. It looks like we’re stuck with the current regime for the moment and Shearer has been reflecting on this, saying:
“I can’t revolve my life around that any more because I have other things going on.”
The future Toon manager then touches on the philosophy of determinism, saying:
“If it happens, it happens, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. Whatever has happened has happened. If anything else happens then it does – I will just get on with it.”
Which seems to me to be a clever rewording of Laplace’s Demon* – deep stuff indeed from the former number 9. After that philosophical interlude, Shearer goes on to praise Hughton, saying:
“I am as delighted as anybody with the start that they’ve had.
“At the moment Chris Hughton is doing a great job. They’ve had a great start to the season. Without any doubt everybody would have taken the position they are in now so if they can build on that, then it will be great.
“They have been playing very well. It would have been amazing if they had won their last two games. It would have given them a great cushion at the top of the Championship. But they’ve now got a really tough game against Nottingham Forest. There’s no reason why they can’t go there and win that game due to the way they are playing.
“They’re full of confidence, and why shouldn’t they be?”
And finally he suggests that Gerrard and Rooney are the key players for next year’s World Cup:
“There have been many England teams that have been to World Cups and European Championships and qualified. They’ve gone there with big expectations.
“I’m not telling Fabio anything else; he knows that the England team will be judged on what happens when they get there. You are never judged on what happens in the qualifying campaign. But I believe if they keep Gerrard and Rooney fit then they have a great chance of winning it.
“The nation is on a high with England getting to the World Cup. It’s been a great campaign in the qualifying series. The hard work starts now, though, doesn’t it? You need all sorts of things to go for you. Don’t forget we’ve got one of the toughest league campaigns and domestic campaigns around.
“Players are more susceptible to fatigue. I believe if they’re all fit, especially Gerrard and Rooney, then we’ve got a great chance.”
It seems nobody is prepared to offer Ashley the £100m he wants and the chances of finding a buyer this season now look slim. I think we’re stuck with Ashley until next summer when we’ll probably have to go through this whole fiasco again.
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*We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.
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