Newcastle fans worst nightmare became true M. Ashley appointed Steve Bruce for new manager of Newcastle FC. England and Newcastle legend Alan Sherear said for Sun that he advised Bruce not to accept job because of "toxic situation" around the club. However Bruce was desperate enough to accept that job which was not passed well in his club Sheffield Wednesday which threatened him with legal action.
Shearer said he admires him because of his courage to accept job and that if someone can make miracles like avoiding relegation with this club that is Bruce! Some other famous ex players like S. Pearce and P. Gascoigne also said that Bruce is competent and completely up to the task.
We should not judge Bruce after first friendly game, but it was "so good" performance that I can't avoid to mention it. They lost against Wolverhampton 0:4. After first half it was already 0:3. Now Twitter is full of jokes of Wolves fans which are laughing to Geordies. I am aware that he would need time and some new players to replace Rondon and Perez, but I really think he went in wrong way.
English newspapers and German club Hoffenheim announced that Premier League Club (Newcastle) is interested in signing Hoffenheim attacker Joelinton. They go so far that they want to spend more than 50 million pounds for Brazilian. Current transfermarkt value of player is 35 million. First look at stats discover sad truth that he was last season on loan at Rapid Wiena. His value when he transferred from Sporting Recife to Hoffenheim was around 2 million. His record in Austrian league which is not really top notch league is 15 goals from 60 appearances. His record in Germany is 7 goals from 27 appearances. That make me think he is not good enough to play in German Bundesliga which is one level bellow England Premier League. He is playing with right foot only. Looking at those stats make me think this is some average if not even bellow average player who can be bought for sums like 5-10 millions. Question is why Newcastle leadership act like drunken millionaires here ? Do they really think they should spend entire transfer budget on 1 attacker ? Noway! They need to strengthen hollow defense and to find good play maker too.
This way they could end up with one to expensive average striker who will be cut from rest of squad which can not make enough chances for him. With hallow defense they are rocketing to bottom. If they are into cheep players or free agents they should be into Manchester City defender Eliaquim Mangala who is free agent and have Champions and Premier League experience to stop that hurricane winds in defense. In my opinion they should try to sign MD Victor Wanyama from Spurs to make midfield better. Then they should look toward France to sign decent play-maker for next season. That is crucial point. Old fashioned player with number 10. Those three moves and serious signing in attack could give them chance to survive for next season, but mediocre manager and first bookies favorite to get sacked S.Bruce is into mediocre and to expensive attacker and ready to spend entire transfer budget for next season on him acting like drunken millionaire.
Things are to dark for Magpies these days.