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Rafael Benítez no longer regards his job at Newcastle as a long-term project. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

Rafael Benítez Open to Job Offers Amid Anger Over Newcastle Transfers

by Louise Taylor | Sep 9, 2017 | Sports

Rafael Benítez has lost virtually all trust in Mike Ashley’s regime at Newcastle United and, no longer regarding his job as a long-term project, would be receptive to alternative offers of employment at similarly sized Premier League clubs. Although Newcastle’s...

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Rafael Benítez desperately wants high-quality reinforcements at Newcastle after winning promotion to the Premier League. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Newcastle Are Testing Rafael Benítez’s Patience with Tardy Transfer Work

by Louise Taylor | Jul 6, 2017 | Sports

Shortly after 8am on Monday the security barrier at a deceptively nondescript‑looking suburban football training facility was raised and Rafael Benítez’s car entered the sometimes parallel universe known as Newcastle United. A couple of minutes later the club’s...

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Sunderland’s Stadium of Light home will be hosting Championship football next season, although the club’s ownership and manager have yet to be determined. Photograph: Richard Sellers/PA

Sunderland Continue to Pay the Price for More than 10 Years of Mismanagement

by Louise Taylor | Jun 23, 2017 | Sports

Sunderland- During an often proud history, featuring the collection of six English league titles, Sunderland have variously been dubbed “the team of all the talents” and the “Bank of England club”. These days the latter – attached in the 1950s – seems something of a...

Steve Gibson’s Bad Call Cost Boro – He Must Get the Next One Right

by Louise Taylor | May 22, 2017 | Sports

London – Steve Gibson is frequently, and usually quite rightly, presented as exhibit A when it comes to listing the properties required to run a football club properly. There are valid, enduring reasons why Middlesbrough’s owner and chairman is regarded as a...

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Sunderland manager David Moyes. (AFP)

David Moyes’ Old-School Ways Helped Drag Ailing Sunderland over the Edge

by Louise Taylor | May 2, 2017 | Sports

London – Within hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the...