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Newcastle United throwing themselves over the edge and hoping for the best

5 years ago
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This Summer is feeling very much like one of those over the top action movies, where the hero is pushed over the ledge.

As he/she falls your heart is in your mouth, hitting each level on the way to the bottom, debris cascading down on them, each time it appears to be crisis over and you can inspect the damage, there is another unexpected hazard as that level also crumbles, or something else carries you over yet another ledge towards the extreme hazards below….

That is Newcastle United at the minute.

Each time you think surely this can’t get any worse, it does.

Rafa Benitez leaves and then Newcastle fans see a series of names reject the job, only for Mike Ashley not even able to get his sixth choice over the line.

If Steve Bruce is/was Ashley’s sixth choice, the mind boggles as to who is lower than him.

Bruce ticks a lot of boxes apart from being a good manager…a Geordie (yawn), a Newcastle fan (really?), desperate to take the job regardless of conditions attached (predictable).

What exactly is this cunning plan when with three and a half weeks of the transfer window remaining, Newcastle still haven’t signed a single player?

At the moment it appears to be close your eyes and hope for the best, that when Newcastle United hits the very bottom everything will turn out ok, just like in the action adventure film.

However, that’s fiction, you can just twist the plot to ensure there is a miraculous ending, Newcastle United though is real life and there is no magical safety net.

Mike Ashley is pushing the boundaries once again but this time it is way beyond anything previous, arrogantly thinking that these past couple of seasons of relative success have been down to him (Ashley), rather than Rafa Benitez working with no budget/backing.

The thing is, the NUFC owner will simply think there are automatically bound to be three other teams worse than Newcastle United.

Reality tells us though that whilst Newcastle United stand still or go backwards, everybody else is pushing on.

At the same time as Newcastle struggle to negotiate the release of a poor Championship manager, rival clubs are buying £20m/£30m/£40m players.

Rafa Benitez had us punching above our (non-existent) fighting weight (under this current owner).

Mike Ashley never appreciated that, or indeed why somebody who turns 30 in September was a no-brainer signing.

Newcastle United will shortly appoint a Championship manager who will take over a squad that is overwhelmingly the one that was around during the NUFC second tier campaign of 2016/17, what could possibly go wrong?

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