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English Premiership Football News ( 06 September 2008 )
Shearer cool on Newcastle vacancy
Alan Shearer appears to have ruled himself on the vacant manager working in Newcastle, after describing the structure of the club as "strange".
"I would like to be a manager at a moment of my career," the former Newcastle player told BBC Sport Football Focus.
"But I want to manage - and who has control of entry and exit of the club."
Kevin Keegan quit work on his lack of control over transfers, while Everton boss David Moya and Didier Deschamps both names are currently under study.
Newcastle, in turmoil since news broke on Tuesday that Keegan left the club before it was officially confirmed on Thursday, are now seeking a sixth manager in four years.
Moya and former Juventus coach Deschamps are among a list of names under consideration by the club owner Mike Ashley, BBC 5 Live football correspondent Jonathan Legarda understands.
Moyes was previously mentioned as a possible successor to Sam Allardyce when he left Newcastle in January.
Deschamps, a former Chelsea team-mate of Magpie general manager Dennis Wise, is available at the moment.
But Legarda believes a link between Chelsea and Wise, another former teammate, Gus Poyet - currently deputy director at Tottenham and the bookmakers' early favourite for the job - is not on the cards.
Keegan has confirmed he was leaving St James' Park on Thursday evening after days of speculation about his future.
It leaves Ashley looking for his third manager since taking over in June 2007 - and the club's eighth in 11 years since the first Keegan reign ended in 1997.
Shearer, a legend among Newcastle fans after scoring 192 goals in 363 appearances for the club, has regularly been linked with the manager working whenever it became vacant since he retired as a player in 2006.
But he believes that the establishment - where general manager Dennis Wise is important in identifying and purchasing new players - forbids him to be interested right now.
"If you have three, four or five players who are waiting for you and you do not know who they are, then you have the right to ask you" do I manage this club football? "Said Shearer.
"You live and die by the decisions you make as a manager, and that includes the purchase of players.
"This is a dangerous term when you go to a football club and director of football is not appointed by yourself.
"There can be a person who is [eventually] responsible for the purchase of players."
Moya, who has yet to sign a new contract with Everton, was among those considered before Keegan back to St James' Park in January.
Legarda said: "Sources in the North-East demand Moyes name is again in the frame, especially his new Everton contract has still not been signed but I am told that is changing very soon.
"The question whether Moyes would like to work in tandem with the Newcastle director of football Dennis Wise is another question.
"And whatever his frustrations with Everton transfer budget, he saw that the recent Newcastle purchasing power was Flyweight by comparison."
Deschamps, who also led Monaco and has already declared its interest in a job in the Premier League club worthy of continental coaching structure.
"Significantly, it is readily available and willing to work in the Premier League," Legarda said.
Keegan said his lack of control over the transfer of Newcastle policy was a key factor in his departure and Richard Bevan, CEO of the League Managers' Association, said the club has to resolve the issue before appointing a new manager.
"Newcastle failed to create a structure where Kevin Keegan could flourish," Bevan told BBC Radio 4.
"You can not have an orchestra with three drivers. You will not be a great success and people leave," he said
"The director of football is a huge issue.
"If you are going to work with a director of football, what is really important is not whether or not you have one person in charge or not, but it is a common goal and a common vision and a structure where the manager can really flourish. "
The information available suggests Keegan could be liable to pay compensation of £ 2m Newcastle to resign eight months in a three-and-a-half-year.
"The dispute between Kevin and the club is in the hands of lawyers, but at no time in our discussions have Kevin talk about compensation," said Bevan.
Keegan departure has created unrest among supporters of the club, who idolise the man who helps them regain their top-flight as a player and took them to within a whisker of the Premier League title in his first spell as manager .
About 200 angry fans gathered outside St James' Park on Thursday to protest after hearing of his departure, and some were seen across the walls trying to penetrate into the soil.
Since the end of the first spell as boss Keegan in 1997, six other managers have tried a trophy for Newcastle.
Sir Bobby Robson, who has spent five years at the helm between September 1999 and August 2004, came close to success.
Robson's side finished fourth, third and fifth during the seasons and reached the second phase of the Champions League and the semi-finals of the UEFA and FA Cups.
Kenny Dalglish and Ruud Gullit guided both teams in their final of the FA Cup defeats, while Glenn Roeder, they won derided the Intertoto Cup.
But no Newcastle manager has landed significant silverware since Joe Harvey's men were victorious in the Fairs Cup in 1969.
MAGPIES' MANAGERIAL TURNOVER
* Kevin Keegan: 02/92-01/97
* Kenny Dalglish: 01/97-08/98
* Ruud Gullit: 08/98-08/99
* Sir Bobby Robson: 09/99-08/04
* Graeme Souness: 09/04-02/06
* Glenn Roeder: 02/06-05/07
* Sam Allardyce: 05/07-01/08
* Kevin Keegan: 01/08-09/08
by bbcnews.
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