Sensible decision though. They’re going nowhere under Bruce and it’s fast approaching the time when picking up points is vital to avoid being in the dog race and struggling.
They need a coach that can win a few games to take the edge off the season or they’ll end up owned by billionaires but languishing in the Championship
Don’t stop with Holding.
We’ve got plenty more where he came from. Newcastle could have a CB partnership of Holding and Mari and we could throw in Mavro as well.
If their owners have been doing their homework, they will have seen what Arteta and his PR team are building here and might take him and our best players from us.
This is the problem for clubs like us, the rich clubs like Newcastle will hoover up all the top talent and leave us scrabbling around in mid table. 
Rangnick leading the project as sporting director/DOF would be the best approach. His work with RBL should be enough that he’d be the best person to lead the sporting project.
If they do it, it a sigh the new regime has nous
The question is: how has a manager as limited as Bruce got close to a thousand matches?
It just shows the stupidity and lack of ambition from a lot of these club owners, although Ashley is the epitome of such an owner.
Yeah he should have gone long before now just funny how it’s ended up being on the eve of his 1000th game haha
He’ll still get his 1,000th game somewhere. A Hull or Sheff United will give him another chance. Manager merry-go-round.
You realise he finished higher than golden bollocks Potter twice in the last 2 seasons yeah.
Well, he’s been a manager for almost 25 years.
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Jobs for the boys still going strong lol
Relegation firefighter? No worries just call up Allardyce.
I would think the change is more about getting them out of the relegation zone and aiming for some sort of mid table stability.
Would Rafa make sense? I realize he just signed with Everton but he plays functional stuff, I think he’s respected within than fanbase and could stabilize them a bit.
Rafa was gonna be the manager the first time around but don’t think he’s in the frame now
Conte likes big budgets, jokes if that’s enough to get him up northeast.
What’s funny about Murphy’s stupid opinion is that he genuinely believes it. There are people who still genuinely believe in giving jobs to managers like Bruce when it’s been proven time and time again there is no place for them in top flight football anymore.
Newcastle are in a relegation dogfight after less than 10 games you’d imagine it’s better to give the job to someone with about 30 games to go in the season and hope he can be a bit more flexible and get them playing something close to reasonable football for the rest of the year and keep them in or around mid table.
Does it really matter if Newcastle get relegated this season? I mean I’m sure they would think so but it’s not really going to change the ultimate end result of this takeover and I don’t even think it would prevent them starting to sign the players they might want to start this project with.
Well it would surely make it harder for one season at least buying the quality of player being in the lower League.
People really presuming a hell of a lot on Newcastle.
We don’t know how much there likely to invest. There’s no easy opening amongst the current top 4 as of now and the talent pool in the game is quite low as of now, especially for a team trying to force itself onto the top table.
Obviously they will improve with major money. Premature though the levels of success some are predicting for me.
As others have mentioned, the only positive to come from this takeover is that Newcastle might spend a few quid buying some of our shite.
Holding, Mari, Elneny, Chambers, Cedric, AMN, Nelson, Nketiah…take your pick lads.
If the Tarkowski rumours are true, Burnley will take Newcastle to the absolute cleaners.