Words to wise

Wise words from The Mirror's Simon Bird


I'd love to see Dennis Wise return to management and get just what he deserves.
Dennis Wise fears his managerial career may have been wrecked by his experience at Newcastle.
Let’s hope not.
I’d love to see Dirty Den back in a job.
I hope he lands a chairman who then decides to appoint a Director of Football above his head, and deliberately misleads fans about the scope of his role as a “public relations exercise.”
I hope Wisey then draws up a list of transfer targets that are ignored.
I hope he argues his case, and is treated with disrespect and disdain, by a bunch of cronies who are supposed to be the club’s crack transfer delivery team.
I hope Wisey is then told to sign a little known South American player that he doesn’t want, and has never heard of.
In the ensuing row, I hope Wisey’s told to check the player out on YouTube.
I hope he is told that the decision is out of his hands because instead of signing players for playing reasons (an old fashioned concept I know) this deal is for “commercial reasons“ as a “favour“ to some agent pals.I hope Dennis then feels the need to quit, because his working conditions are impossible, being asked to manage players he didn’t want to sign.
And then I’d then love to see him keep quiet, with the sort of dignity Kevin Keegan did for 15 months, before the full grubby truth of the shambles emerged in a court room.

Earlier Dennis wise spoke about his time at Newcastle on sky sports news who seem to be holding his and rashleys hand on this matter.

Wise claimed that a settlement offer was made to KK before the tribunal:

"There was an offer put in by Mike I believe, and it was probably more than what Kevin got.....to settle it, yes....for more than the two million yes.
"So one of them must be lying, unless Keegan was offered somewhere between £2m and £4m and Wise is dealing in semantics. Given that the club openly admitted they twist the truth as an "exercise in public relations" then Wise's version of events seems to lose credibility.
He also reinforced the line about the inflated sums that KK's legal team had gone looking for:
"Mike was worried....when someone is suing you for £26m...
"And the A word almost inevitably made an appearance when Wise was asked what would have happened to his former employers had KK received a larger award:
"Maybe administration"
As for his own relations with KK, Wise ventured that:
"It was a difficult situation."
Wise also confirming that Ashley sacked him when Alan Shearer was brought in as Newcastle manager, but still referred to the club owner constantly as "Mike" and appeared ultra-sympathetic to him.
That's hardly the stance of a disgruntled former employee, but there again being paid to pick out signings by watching YouTube is hardly the most taxing of roles....
Wise attempted to downplay the impact of the Nacho Gonzalez deal, claiming that it was for the greater good:
"The long-term idea of the relationship (with two agents) was we were going to get first option on the best South American kids.
"That was important to Newcastle. Mike knew everything about it. He was fine with it. Every deal that went through the football club he knew. It's his money and no one else's. It was all done the right way.
"When Wise was asked for his opinion of what Mike Ashley's next move at SJP would be:
"I think he will hold onto the club until they are promoted. I think they'll go up this year, I genuinely hope they do, then Mike will take a decision next summer.
"So, still no mention of the other signings of interest that took place, such as Xisco and Fabio Zamblera - or indeed why the list of transfer targets KK prepared including the likes of Bastian Schweinsteiger wasn't acted upon.

We also wonder whether this was a grammatical or a Freudian slip from Wise:

"The club never paid any money to no agent."
After Sky's coverage of the tribunal verdict when they appeared to do little more than push the club line, their cozy chats with Wise look to be more of the same thing.

It's little wonder that the club feel no need to comment on the matter, when others are happy to do it for them.

From nufc.com