Steve McClaren is yet to win a game since taking charge this summer, and the midweek cup exit has done nothing to improve the atmosphere around the club.
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A chorus of boos greeted the Magpies at the final whistle, and McClaren now has to galvanise his side ahead of tomorrow’s English Premier League clash against champions Chelsea.
“When players come from overseas you cannot really say whether they are going to be successful or not”.
Charnley continued: “After six league games the truth is we have not achieved the points that any of us had hoped and expected we would do”.
“None of us can, or will, shirk the responsibility for this situation“. They were ideal in the strategy that we brought top this match. We have got to start using our experience now, and we have got that.
“We are not in the business of apportioning blame”, he wrote in an email to fans.
“We’re only a couple of months together with this group and the new manager and coaching staff, and we need to figure out the way we need to play“.
Lewis McGugan’s 76th-minute strike secured a 1-0 victory for the visitors and left McClaren scratching his head as he desperately tries too mould a team from the players he inherited and those bought for him at great, but as yet unjustified, expense by managing director Lee Charnley on the recommendation of chief scout Graham Carr.
Rolando Aarons are struggling with calf problems. Chelsea found the ruthless attitude typical of a Mourinho team as they plotted their way to a 2-0 win against Arsenal.
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“I worked with the players in training today”, he said. It’s hard for me… you maybe don’t get as many touches as you want.
‘You know. The one who can speak about the referees before the game, after the game, can push people in the technical area, can moan, can cry in the morning in the afternoon, nothing happens. There is one that for some reason is outside that list.
“An imaginary list, but clearly”.
He appeared to take the opportunity to wade into Wenger but, when when asked if he meant the Arsenal manager, declined to name the Frenchman, a long-time adversary.
It was the latest in a series of limp performances from the Magpies and the former England Manager is already feeling the heat in the north-east. We can not be below par.
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“There is one that for some reason is outside that list”.
