Alan Shearer to become Newcastle Manager !!!

Shearer to become Newcastle boss

Shearer spent a decade at Newcastle before retiring in 2006
BBC Sport understands that Alan Shearer is set to be appointed as Newcastle manager until the end of the season.
Magpies legend Shearer, 38, has been continually linked with a return to the club but has been critical of the management structure in the past.
Chris Hughton is in temporary charge at St James' Park while interim manager Joe Kinnear recovers from a triple heart bypass.
The Magpies are third from bottom of the Premier League.
Shearer scored 206 goals in 404 appearances during a 10-year playing stint at Newcastle to earn legendary status on Tyneside after joining for a record £15m fee from Blackburn.
The former England striker, who retired from playing in 2006, has made no secret of his desire to become a manager one day.
However, it had been thought that Shearer, who is a pundit on BBC TV's Match of the Day, had been put off returning to St James' Park by the regime of owner Mike Ashley - which he described as "strange" in September.
   
The same month, Shearer rejected an offer to join the club's coaching staff.
Both on and off the pitch, Newcastle have lurched from one crisis to the next this season following the departure of Kevin Keegan early in the campaign.
Following a fans' backlash over Keegan's exit, Ashley raised the possibility of selling the club, before deciding to stay on.
Key striker Michael Owen has been involved in just four games this year because of an ankle injury, while Charles N'Zogbia moved to Wigan in the January transfer window after a high-profile bust-up with Kinnear.

Hughton also denied Ashley had come to dressing room after the game to speak to the players.
Newcastle, who have 29 points from 30 matches, host third-placed Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday with eight games of the season left.

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Huge news for the footballing world.

I never thought he'd take charge of the magpies. I think this could give them enough of a boost to stay in the league this season.

I'm happy for him and newcastle

Down you go Newcastle. 

Was gonna happen sooner or later wasn't it. Can't see him staying on after the season finishes though.

I can see him keeping them up this season.
I don't know if he'll become a legend as a manager, it's alot more likely that he'll retire before a year there because it seems like an amazingly tough job.

I wish him the best of luck, i always liked shearer

How can he become a prem manager without the qualifications, doesn't seem right to me, bang goes the big pay cheque from the BBC then 

Interesting pick and I guess they are hoping that "new manager" magic works in the final run of games to keep them up but they have a hard run of games.

Good luck Alan. Do us a favour and take a few points off of Chelsea at the weekend.

I have a lot of time for Shearer he was a fantastic player and a top man also.

I wish him all the best and hope he can knock something off Chelsea this weekend.

Shame, quite like him as a pundit on MOTD


Don't think it will be long before their fans start booing another one of their managers, just this time it is one of their heroes.

But what better way to start than stopping Chelsea getting 3 points, do us proud Shearer

Shame, quite like him as a pundit on MOTD

yeah gotta agree, although this may sound ridiculous coming from a liverpool suporter but hansens always biased towards us, where  as i think shearers a real realist in the soap opera that is newcastle united

might just keep them up, the new manager effect and all, just look at hiddink and rednaps influence

Down you go Newcastle. 

Was gonna happen sooner or later wasn't it. Can't see him staying on after the season finishes though.

Agree RK, it was really a matter of time.

Fairytale or false dawn?

Find this difficult that this is not and April Fool.

Jobs for the boys.

You watch, Newcastle fans wanted him in around October when Keegan left and now they'll moan because he's not experienced enough managerial wise.

8 games to go, can Shearer really save them from the Premiership chop?

Bunch of muppets hope She-ra takes them down.

They get 50,000 because they are a single club town. Manchetster City get 40,000 plus every other week and they have got to contend with The Biggest Club in the World (tm) down the road. They haven't won anything since Moses was a lad, yet think they have a divine right to be in the Champions League. "wor so passionate man."

F**k off, you boo yer team at every opportunity. They treat signings like trophies and this is somehow construde as "great support" and the horrible brain dead whoppers have the cheek to sing Sign on at us!

I wish them nothing but 2nd tier football, it's where the scruffy tw*ts belong.

Like many people I was a bit bemused to wake up this morning to the news that Alan Shearer has become the manager of Newcastle United until the end of the season!! Here is a club thretened with relegation, 2 points from safety with just 8 games left, the first of which will be at home to Chelsea, so why would he choose to take on such an enormous job at this time?

Why would he leave the cosy MOTD couch to manage a club in such danger?, on top of which he has no managerial experience whatsoever and because he is thought of so highly in Newcastle he will have huge pressure to do something miraculous!!

Do you think he loves the club so much that he thinks he must roll up his sleeves, get stuck in and try to do something to help or has he secretly seen an opportunity to become a North East God by saving the club from relegation?

Thought this was blag so didn't comment.

But now let me give out a hearty

HO HO F***ing HO!

They're going down.

Shearer's lack of experience will probably take them down. I feel sorry for Alan, I always thought he was a decent bloke.

But when they get relegated I'll be the first to laugh and the last to stop.

Too much messing about with managers a recruitment too many, I say.  Being in such a situation they should have signed an experienced campaigner with experience of a relegation battle to his name.  I think Mary Popins seat with MOTD will stay warm as he will be back there in a flash, a stupid move ask me.

Don't like Newcastle. Bunch of overrated sh*te - Viduka and Smith, and pricks - Barton etc etc

I would like them go down actually.

First game is against Chelsea. We cant lose.

If Newcastle raise their game and beat Chelsea, woohoo!
If not we can laugh at Newcastle.

Do not mind Shearer, but Newcastle!

The best option for them.

Think I'm right in saying....4th Manager this season 

That says it all if you ask me.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to appoint Dowie as manager and Shearer as the assistant?

Not that it makes a difference, they are still sh*te and they are still going down

For the two reasons of Mike Ashley and them supporting Joey Barton I hope they go down.

Whoever appointed Dennis Wise started this whole mess.

Ashley has brought Shearer back for two reasons

1. Get more fans and cash back in.
2. Try and stop his house getting torched if they go down because he 'brought' Shearer back.