Newcastle continue to resist common sense

Newcastle United have continued their venture of making a laughing stock out of themselves by virtually ignoring Alan Shearer is putting everything to do with the club up for sale. It means that Newcastle United have a price tag of £100 million and any club who is interested in players can approach for talks.

This is all before Shearer has been confirmed as the boss for next season and means that he does not have a say in what is going on because he is not a contracted member of the staff. The senseless decision making could mean that Shearer misses out on the chance to keep key people at St James’ Park for next season and once again risks the future of the club.

At a time when Shearer needs to be meeting with everyone available at the club in order to stabilise the immediate future, the club are stalling about offering him a contract and once again creating a situation that allows everyone to sit back and have a good laugh at their expense.

Last week Shearer met with Managing Director, Derek Llambias, on one occasion and he even had to work hard to make this a reality. It really does make you scratch your head in amazement at what is actually going on at the club. Any normal thinking person would have thought that relegation may have sparked a few light bulbs in many heads at the club but it seems to amazingly be having an opposite effect.

A statement from the Newcastle Supporters Club reads: “It is vital that Mike Ashley acts quickly to quash the rumour and hearsay that surrounds the appointment of Alan Shearer as our manager.”

One irate fan even commented on a newspaper website: “Newcastle should knock the stadium down and start selling Manchester United shirts, it’s the only way they’ll make a success out of football.”

Further dissatisfaction was created by the fact that anyone interested in buying the club or the players was asked to e-mail the admin address of the club. Needless to say this prompted a mass surge of abuse from supporters of clubs in other parts of the country and would have done the morale of the 120 staff at Newcastle no good at all.

There really is something drastically wrong with the way this club is being run. The logical decisions that you would think did not require a second thought are now turning into decisions that could bring the club down and prevent it from returning to the Premier League for decades let alone in the next couple of seasons.

A whole host of Championship sides have already started building and working towards success next season yet Newcastle still have no permanent manager and an owner that does not want to be there. They have been in the laughing stocks for far too long and it is about time someone took some control, got rid of the people creating all of the problems and got the club some respect.