When will Alan Shearer manage Newcastle United?
The question on most Newcastle fans’ minds is when and if the great Alan Shearer will ever manage the club.
Certainly the recently announced $300M St. James Park development means that we will have to have a successful team if we are to fill the envisaged 60,000 capacity at St. James Park.
Alan Shearer seems to have all of the attributes necessary to make a successful manager:
- Excellent Leadership abilities
- Mentally tough
- Handles people well
- Knows the game well and had served under some very good managers
Alan must also be viewing with interest the tremendous impact Roy Keane has had at Sunderland.
If you look at what Keane has done in such a short space of time it certainly looks like he is a great manager in the making.
Some of his supposed deficiencies as a player (lack of patience with players, a short temper) seem to have been handled well by Keane, the manager.
Certainly he seems to know what worked for him as a player does not necessarily work as a manager - and to his credit he has managed his playing staff superbly this season.
Keane and Shearer have similar personalities in that they are both mentally strong, strong leaders and hate to lose.
So given how well Keane has performed at Sunderland, Newcastle fans must be salivating at what Shearer could potentially do at Newcastle.
Certainly when Shearer worked with Glenn Roeder at the end of last season the Newcastle players performed heroically and with passion - and there were never any problems with motivation (or even winning for that matter).
Maybe the perfect scenario is to have Glenn Roeder continue as manager for next season , since he is correcting a lot of Newcastle’s perennial problems within the club.
He should continue to put a world-class scouting network in place in addition to the youth system he has recreated.
After next season we could at least investigate as to whether Shearer could take over for the following season.
I do not see Glenn Roeder leaving Newcastle at all – he should be appointed Newcastle’s Director of Football with responsibilities being at the very least the scouting network and the youth system.
Certainly Glenn has shown a full understanding of what Newcastle’s fans need and you can never fault the man for giving 100% commitment, effort and passion for the Newcastle cause.
Glenn Roeder also has many good visionary ideas about where Newcastle need to go in the future - and since Roeder and Shearer seem to have respect and admiration for each other Roeder could continue do a great job for Newcastle United.
The playing side of things would be the responsibility of Shearer – with Roeder in the background, ensuring we are looking out for star young players and bringing local talent through the youth system – so there will be a pipeline of players for the future.
My feeling is that Shearer and Roeder together could do a great job for Newcastle in the future – please let me know what you think?
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I disagree in the strongest possible terms with this piece.
You think that the 4 attributes you mention make a good manager?
Whatever happened to tactical nous, awareness,adaptability?
What Keane has done in his short period in charge of Sunderland is no better than what Roeder did between February and April last year - and where are we now?
Roeders previous management record would have immediately had him struck off the list of candidates for manager of the 19 other premiership teams - so why the hell did we even consoider him? Look at his CV!
Think Gary Glitter, application, Kindergarten Nurse. You make the decision.
No-one in their right mind!
So Roeder has shown a full understanding of what Newcastle fans need - apart from maybe a few minor things such as passion, commitment, attacking football, goals, a strong defence, results, adventure, the ability to make substitutions, the ability to identify talent and play it (Rossi?).
Send Roeder back to the academy.
This is the man who in January said “A lot of managers would not have stood by Bramble, but I will. A manager must always stand by his players and give them the opportunity to develop”.
The only thing Bramble is likely to develop into is a quality 3rd division defender.
Roeder will not be able to stand by him for much longer, because by virtue of the alphabet alone they will be in different dole queues on different days of the week.
And what on earth makes you think that we require a successful team to fill a 60,000 seater stadium, when we can already pack 52,000 in with the bunch of mediocre muppets that we have at the moment?
I think you are confusing the passion and commitment of the team with that of the fans.
Putting Roeder in charge of the Toon, like putting McClaren in charge of England, was one of those strange decisions that just didn’t make sense at the time and management tried to persuade us it was the right thing to do. Neither manager was qualified through achievement to take the post they got. McClaren was in charge of a struggling Boro for Christ’s sake, what the hell made him the right choice for the job apart from sniffing Svens underpants for 3 years?
What the hell are we doing?
If I did my job the way these suckers are doing theirs I’d be on the Social in a flash.
I suppose the rules are different when you have a couple more zeros on the end of your salary.
Archie Brand
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Keane has done a better job than Roeder did last season - Roeder was in charge for only about 14 games or so - where Keane has been in charge for over 40 games - and has brought in about 11 players - unlike Roeder’s situation.
Also it was hard for Shepherd not to appoint Roeder once it came to the end of the season - although I was praying we’d appoint Martin O’Neil - but he seemed to balk for too long.
Not sure it’s the right thing right now to change managers until we understand what Shearer’s plans are - but with the state of the club as it is - he’s got to make a decision sooner rather than later - but I’m still OK with Roeder for another season.
I’ve been extremely disappointed at the lack of passion shown by the returning first teamers - which is why we need to see the back of the likes of Carr, Babayaro, Bramble etc.- at least the youngsters showed complete commitment and passion for the club.
Believe me I’m as frustrated as anybody at the complete lack of success these last 40 years.