The final straw for him was probably having to sell Yohan Kebab. Terrible business.
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Ben Afra, Kebabs, Sissy, Shola Amamobi and his little son Sammy, Goltierrez. He worked well with all of them. I blame Lambayzee to be honest. It's an outrage.Comment
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Sad day for comedy football people to laugh at. He was too easy a scapegoat after they got stuffed by the mackems again.Comment
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he was never a true dof, more of a buffer, so the fans could slag him and stop the **** getting posted through ashleys letter box.
joke in here, its a cracker
removing all the weak links makes us stronger
too many gutless players, no beef or desire. pussies everywhere... sack them all.Comment
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I expect a big reveal soon from him trying to justify his spectacular failure.
He won't be able to help himself.
Hello mert.Comment
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it'll be live on talksportOriginally posted by Fivex View PostI expect a big reveal soon from him trying to justify his spectacular failure.
He won't be able to help himself.
removing all the weak links makes us stronger
too many gutless players, no beef or desire. pussies everywhere... sack them all.Comment
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Revealed: Why Joe Kinnear had to leave Newcastle, including his claims about a £25m move for Mohamad Salah, his wining and dining of the Supremes and his struggles with his mobile phone
Kinnear left his role this week having failed to make a single permanent signing
MARTIN HARDY Wednesday 05 February 2014
Joe Kinnear announced his arrival as Newcastle's director of football by blasting the club's fans and getting the names of his own players wrong.
He left late on Monday with his tail between his legs as the first director of football in the history of the Premier League to go through two transfer windows without making a permanent signing.
From the start, fantasy and reality merged for Kinnear. The 67-year-old's outlandish boasts during eight chaotic months in his position at St James' Park can be revealed here:
- How he privately claimed Newcastle were going to sign Mohamad Salah last month for £25 million AFTER a deal had been struck with Chelsea for less than half that figure.
- How he told punters in the Hilton Hotel the night before Newcastle were beaten by Manchester City in January that he had £20 million to spend on a striker, a boast that reached and infuriated owner Mike Ashley.
- How he struggled with technology and had endless problems with his mobile phone.
- How he got the name of his own defender Shane Ferguson muddled up with former midfielder Stephen Ireland and called him Shane Ireland.
- How he claimed on a train earlier this season as he headed to watch a Newcastle match that he had to call off a drinking night with Bobby Moore to wine and dine the Supremes.
- How he told fans not to worry about selling Tim Krul because he had three world class goalkeepers lined up.
- And more damagingly how he then agreed a fee for midfielder Yohan Cabaye that was less than the £25 million the club wanted.
- The pair clashed last week following the sale of Cabaye for less than what Ashley expected, believed to be around the £16 million mark.
That was the tipping point for owner Mike Ashley.
The 67-year-old had been the stunning appointment of Ashley in the summer.
The Sports Direct billionaire shocked football back in 2008 when he appointed Kinnear, who had been out of football for four years, as the manager of Newcastle United.
A triple heart bypass operation before a match at West Brom ended his time at the club, but Ashley retained a soft spot for Kinnear and kept promising him a job at Newcastle.
When Ashley's relationship with the then managing director Derek Llambias had problems, Kinnear was given a staggering, senior role back in the richest league in the world.
Chief scout Graham Carr offered to quit. Derek Llambias, who was called Lambeeze by Kinnear in that infamous radio interview, went a step further and left.
The remit then for Kinnear was simple: Keep an eye on and unsettle manager Alan Pardew, who Ashley was not prepared to give a big payout to by sacking after the club finished 16th, 12 months after the club had came fifth, and carry out Ashley's plan to the letter by ending spending.
Newcastle were never going to fork out a penny last summer on permanent deals after Ashley was forced to spend £33 million midway through the season in the 2013 January transfer window to keep the club in the Premier league when he signed five French players.
On that front at least, Kinnear delivered.
Newcastle went through a summer after they had fought relegation by spending just £2 million on the loan fee for Loic Remy from Queens Park Rangers.
That riled supporters but Kinnear's only failing was an inability to negotiate with Arsenal over the transfer of Yohan Cabaye after an initial bid from Arsene Wenger came in at £10.2 million.
That infuriated Cabaye, who criticised Kinnear when he was away on international duty with France in October.
Cabaye was finally sold to Paris Saint-Germain last week, but the fee, negotiated by Kinnear, was not the £25 million they were expecting.
Yohan Cabaye was sold to Paris Saint-Germain last week Yohan Cabaye was sold to Paris Saint-Germain last week Newcastle also failed to react to a £6 million offer for forward Papiss Cisse from Qatar outfit Al-Rayyan, who were ready to increase their bid. Negotiations didn't happen.
That saw Kinnear summoned to St James' Park on Monday.
Newcastle could still sell Cisse, with the Russian transfer window open until the end of this month, but Kinnear was not there to discuss transfers.
Instead, he was told his time at the club was over and agreement was reached that he would go.
He leaves a club in chaos.
Even Pardew was in the dark about Kinnear going. He only found about the latest stunning development late on Monday night.
The Newcastle manager had admitted after the demolition derby to Sunderland that he would have done things differently if he had sole control of transfers.
Pardew initially thought Kinnear was there for his job. He then thought he might help him land more physical players better designed for the Premier League, but in the end he had his best player sold on the eve of a Tyne-Wear clash that he could not afford to lose.
Ashley, who had originally planned to attend (his burly bouncer was there at St James' Park for the three-nil defeat) instead went to Ireland to do a business deal.
Now he must plot a new path for a football club that is once more in crisis.
There will be relief that one level of the club's ill-advised management structure has gone.
The appointment of Kinnear as a director of football will go down in Premier League history as one of the most strange.
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That's a surprise. I though he was nailed on to be a success.Trey Nyoni: countdown to stardom-2 years1year0.5 yearsComment
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One tit for another.
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The Club that keeps on giving........
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He has quit the club.Originally posted by Bender View Post
Joe Kinnear may have exited stage left but the impression of Newcastle United as a club in chaos was reinforced on Thursday. Willie Donachie, their reserve team manager, quit hours after he had been suspended for "disciplinary reasons" after he allegedly hit one of his players following the Under-21 side's 2-0 defeat at Sunderland on Monday night.
The 62-year-old former Manchester City and Scotland full-back had been told to stay away from the training ground while Newcastle conducted a thorough investigation into the events at the Stadium of Light.
Donachie was furious at a performance which came 48 hours after Newcastle's first team had lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland and at a time when Mike Ashley, the club's owner, has made it clear he expects youngsters to start graduating into Alan Pardew's senior side from the junior ranks.
Angry dressing-room exchanges are understood to have ensued, eventually leading to a fight during which Donachie is alleged to have struck Remie Streete, a 19-year-old defender, who had conceded a penalty.
When a complaint was made to Newcastle's hierarchy, Streete had a meeting with Pardew. Donachie was then suspended and an investigation opened, swiftly followed by his resignation.
Rated highly by many people inside St James' Park, he arrived at Newcastle in 2009 as assistant academy director before being placed in charge of the development squad – the modern name for the reserves – a year later.
Unlike Donachie, Kinnear lacked allies on Tyneside but Pardew has claimed he was "sad" to see the former Wimbledon and Newcastle manager leave St James' Park this week.
Although Newcastle's manager never wanted Kinnear appointed as the club's director of football last June, frequently found working with him frustrating and has not spoken to him since his departure, Pardew straight-batted questions about his ousting.
"I'm just said to see anybody lose their job, as Joe has," he said. "He did a lot of good work here. But that decision was the board's decision. I was surprised that the decision was made at that time but it was not my decision. I have not spoken to him since but I'm sure I will do."
Kinnear's failure to make a single permanent signing during two transfer windows, allied to his non-replacement of Yohan Cabaye – Newcastle's best midfielder who joined Paris St Germain for £20m deal last week – has hardly strengthened Pardew's position.
"It has always been tough and I have never hidden from that," conceded the manager, who watched four security stewards wrestle an angry fan away from him as his side were sunk by Sunderland.
"I will never hide from the fans, even that fan who ran on to the pitch and ran towards me, I was not going to hide from him or run away from him. I will face it as it comes because I think it is a job where you have to be purposeful and you have to stay strong.
"It's very difficult to win trophies at this football club and therefore a lot of the time you are dealing with bad news and losing players but you have to keep your focus on what is important and the most important part of my job is winning first team games. You have to forget everything else."
Newcatle's manager - whose eighth placed side travel to Chelsea on Saturday/tomorrow without the injured Cheik Tiote, Yoan Gouffran and Fabricio Coloccini - again stressed that reinforcing his squad in the summer is imperative before suggesting he would be happy to work with a dirctor of football again.
"That decision is the board's, but I have no problem with directors of football," he said. "In the modern game, a lot of clubs have them. There is so much involved in transfers in terms of the other club, agents, the preparation for the bid and the finances now that it goes way past what we used to do 10 years ago. I'm old enough now to have been in at a time when I was involved in the financial part of a transfer. But that part of it has gone from managers and has gone from me. That's probably that's how it should be."
Indeed the suspicion is that Pardew would welcome having an accomplished deal maker by his side. "We had a list of player targets for this window which we'll work to in the summer when recruitment will be very important," he said. "We need to make some changes, there's quite a bit of work to do. We know we've lost our best player but, hopefully, we can bring in three or four new players. Let's hope so because this club deserves it. There's money available and I'm sure we'll use it."
In the interim Pardew must experiment with Newcastle's playing system. "We've got no one like Cabaye now so we cannot be the team we were in the first half of the season," he cautioned. "We do have to change our style a little bit and find a way that can work for us."
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Disabled grandmother has Newcastle season ticket stripped away.
Newcastle United have not earned themselves the warmest and most respected reputation since owner Mike Ashley took hold of the club.
Countless debacles off the field have, at times, left the club in disarray with director of football Joe Kinnear's exit the most recent example of hapless decision-making.
But sometimes, most tragically, it is the loyal and dedicated fans who receive the worst treatment.
Disabled grandmother Lilian Held, who lives just a 10-minute walk from St James's Park, was left devastated after her season ticket was stripped from her.
The 65-year-old had her season ticket confiscated by club officials and sold on without her knowledge after she allowed her son Christopher to attend one match in her place against Southampton on December 14.
Just 20 minutes into the game, her son was approached by club security staff and ordered to leave the ground, leaving his teenage nieces behind without his support. He was strictly told that his mother would have to come to the stadium to retrieve her ticket, despite the fact that she is disabled.
The lifelong Newcastle fan, who has irreparable nerve damage in her back, was duly told her ticket had been suspended until further notice.
“I was told my ticket would be suspended while the club investigated whether my son had sat in the seat regularly,” she told the Newcastle Chronicle.
"I told them he never sits in the seat – I always sit in the seat and this was the first game I’d missed in 14 years. I only wanted the girls to be accompanied by an adult because I’m always there at home games to look after them."
Earlier this year, the club placed media bans on The Chronicle, The Journal and Sunday Sun for what it saw as “disproportionate” coverage of a protest march which "ultimately was attended by approximately 300 supporters."
The media bans meant that the publications were “not permitted access to any media facilities, press conferences and player interviews at Newcastle United indefinitely and with immediate effect.”
Despite the ban, the club have, it appears, been unable to stem the tide of negativity that currently surrounds the club.
The pensioner, who originally bought the seat for her late husband who died from lung cancer in 1999, has understandably felt let down and very aggrieved at the way she has been treated and spoke to the Chronicle about her dismay regarding the club she loves.
"I have sat in that seat for 13 years,” she said. “I’m a lifelong fan of Newcastle United and I worked for the club in the 1990s where I had my picture taken with Kevin Keegan.
"Going to the match is the only bit of social time I get. I live for those home games. Taking my ticket from me and selling my seat without giving me the right to even argue my case has completely ruined my year."
The family have continued to chase up the situation with the club, but have reportedly not received a response.
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