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As the National press do their best to mock us, create mischief and brand Keegan as a quitter they are actually creating the environment where Keegan has excelled in the past. “I’ll show them” is the Keegan mantra and he’ll be determined to prove them all wrong.
We give the calm, sensible view on recent events as Ashley at last starts installing stability at the club.
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The arrival of Dennis Wise has sent the national press into overdrive in troublemaking, trying to suggest that Wise will undermine Keegan and his appointment was in some way done without Keegan’s knowledge. However it is pretty clear Mike Ashley has an ambitious plan and is structuring the club to run efficiently and successfully.
His best mate Paul Kemsley was instrumental in setting Tottenham up with a strong management structure much on the same lines as Chelsea run as well. It would be naïve to think that this was not agreed with Keegan before he took the job. It would also be naïve to think the club could be ran in the traditional old fashioned way. So …. Keegan tours Europe watching top players, runs the academy, negotiates complex transfer deals with agents oh and while he is on trains the first team, video analyses the matches and works on individual players weaknesses. He also runs the finances of the club as well !!
It’s the National press who are out of order as the Premiership is a complex, global game and needs a strong management structure to run it. Their criticism though is great for us as Keegan is not in fact a quitter, he is a messiah. Keegan has walked away in the past in consistent circumstances i.e. “I can’t take this job any further”. Well he can’t say that about the current situation at Newcastle and he always relishes a challenge like he had at Newcastle, Fulham and the early days at Manchester City.
As for Dennis Wise I think that’s nicely summed up in quotes from his recent interview:
The size of the club and the ambition of the owner and what he wants to achieve attracted me.”
“He not only wants to bring the best players here, he wants the best young players as well.”
“We also need to look abroad for young players and that is my intention for the next few years.” “I enjoy working with youngsters, bringing them through. I did that at both Millwall and Leeds United.”
Dennis Wise is there to build up the academy, a much needed appointment very much on the lines of Arsenal, and who could criticise that?
Jeff Vetere as Technical Co-ordinator is well respected, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the European game, is a former Real Madrid scout and made his name in England working as European scout for Alan Curbishley at Charlton.
Tony Jimenez as Vice President (Player Recruitment) is a friend of Mike Ashley’s and they have done business deals in the past. Much in the mould of David Dein at Arsenal, he is renowned for his contacts, networking and his moving and shaking abilities.
Whilst the press mock these appointments and predict Keegan will walk away soon we do actually have a very strong situation developing at Newcastle, which will greatly disappoint the press, so reliant on the Newcastle circus constantly filling their pages.
Kevin will be delighted to show everyone he can still do it and Ashley at last is bringing professionalism, structure and a strategy into the club.
So the time hath cometh, the Messiah starts now ……
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