According to Winter, Steve McClaren is a number two, a coach to work under a manager, not somebody who can man-manage top players…or even the ones we have at Newcastle United!
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Steve McClaren is under pressure to turn his side’s fortunes around, and wasn’t helped by a dismal 3-0 home defeat by Leicester on Saturday which leaves them in 17th, one point above the relegation zone.
Newcastle were thrashed 5-1 away at Crystal Palace, the club now managed by ex-Magpies boss Alan Pardew, earlier today and sit second bottom of the Premier League table and in real trouble. No names are mentioned in that particular context, but the Telegraph claims that Moussa Sissoko, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Vurnon Anita and club captain Fabricio Coloccini have all been criticised by supporters.
‘Personally, I would like to say a big thank you to the Newcastle supporters for their absolute support this year – they deserve much more than we gave them. We have to get it all back. Feisty, competitive, energetic, all the things we lacked last Saturday.
“Sometimes you have to go through adversity, there is no one better than myself and the staff and we have to get the players to cope with that”. “I knew this was tough and for all the comments from other people, we all knew it was going to be tough”. Within the last few months it has already been rumoured that McClaren was asking for several players with existing Premier League experience to be brought in, all over the age of 27. The players have their own individual motivation and we have to draw that out.
“We lose when we stop doing our jobs when disappointment hits us”. Turning that around is massive.
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“We have to change them, but the only way to get belief and change is to get results, and we’ve been inconsistent”.
