Former Premier League boss WOULD be keen on Newcastle United job

A former Premier League boss is said he WOULD be keen on the Newcastle United job, according to reports, should it ever go vacant.

The Magpies haven’t made an ideal start to the season, as they are winless in their first seven Premier League games, piling the pressure on Steve Bruce, or so you think.

Bruce has failed to win any kind of support from the Newcastle faithful since he took charge at St James’ Park and lacks a well of goodwill to draw from in difficult times.

With this in mind, ex-Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder is keen on the Newcastle United managerial position if the job becomes vacant, according to Chronicle Live.

The former Blades boss has experience in the Premier League, managing Sheffield United in the top flight in an impressive 2019/20 season before suffering a dismal 2020/21 season.

Even though last season ended with the club finishing rock-bottom, the campaign prior had seen Wilder guide them to a top-half position, and this boosted his reputation at the time.

It was also stated in another article how Eddie Howe is interesting in getting back into management and would be open to replacing Bruce.

Bruce has now gone into the international break under a very dark cloud and will be hoping to see all his players that have been called up return fit and well.

The managerial situation is getting a little more critical as Newcastle’s miserable run continues having now won seven of their last 37 matches in all competitions. Over their last 38 league games, a full season, they have taken 37 points. Any other club and they would have got rid by now surely?

After Saturday’s defeat to Wolves, Bruce claimed that Newcastle failed to get what they deserved. There’s something in that they had chances to score against Wolves and should have comfortably beaten Watford last weekend. But ever since Bruce was brought in, the accusation from his critics is that Magpies’s underlying numbers were worse than their results suggested.

The trust of the majority of supporters has now virtually gone. The trust of the players is repeatedly the subject of leaks to the written press. Newcastle are winless, sit second-bottom of the Premier League and are yet to play five of the Big Six and neither of Everton or Brighton, the two surprise successes of the campaign so far.

No top flight team has conceded more than Newcastle’s 16 goals in seven games, whilst Steve Bruce also has his team scoring less goals than last season, only eight scored (in eight games in all competitions) at this stage last season it was eleven goals in seven PL matches.

Luke Edwards of The Telegraph is Steve Bruce’s friend it would seem in the media, he has now been speaking about his pal’s situation.

Edwards admitted that things are really bad at Newcastle United, the start to the season woeful.

He publicly accepted: ‘Steve Bruce is really under pressure now, he really is’…but crucially, Luke Edwards says that there is no pressure from the NUFC owner and zero chance of Mike Ashley sacking him.

Luke Edwards of The Telegraph speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast:

“Newcastle only ever sack a manager if they really, really, really have to.

“Basically, what that is down to, as much as they try to deny it, is that Newcastle’s only ambition since Mike Ashley took over is to stay in the Premier League.

“So, as long as the manager is going to do that, or they think the manager can do that, they don’t panic, they don’t get rid of a manager.

“Steve Bruce is really under pressure now, he really is.

“They have not won for eight games in all competitions.

“They have played well in a few and not won, that is always a bad sign I think.

“The sort of things that were going for them, the rubs of the green, the smash and grabs, they’re not getting them at the minute.

“He’s under pressure from the media and supporters but not from the people that employ him.

“Because they will look at it and say well, we’re only one win from getting out of the bottom three.

“People said we should have sacked him in March last year, they have said to us for two years Steve Bruce is going to get Newcastle relegated, this is the fans talking by the way, and he hasn’t done that.

“So I think they will just keep him there until there’s a resolution with the takeover and whether that is going to go through or not, but that will be January. They just won’t panic.

“I saw something I have never seen in football before, when Alan Pardew was manager.

“Newcastle were winning 3-0 against Cardiff on the last day of the season and all four sides of the ground started booing and calling for him to go, wanted him to be sacked.

“It was so bad, he had to hide in his dugout. He basically said, I’m not coming out.

“He was still there the next season.

“Mike Ashley didn’t sack him, it the only time that I have been in a ground when the entire stadium has turned on a manager…and the owner has just gone: ‘yeah whatever, I like him I’m going to keep him there because he will keep us up.’