True Geordie calls for Newcastle United to make Jose Mourinho \u201cfairy tale\u201d happen YouTube: The Kick Off\/Associated PressNewcastle United should not miss the opportunity to replace Eddie Howe with Jose Mourinho as their manager this summer. That is the bold verdict of YouTuber and Newcastle fan, True Geordie, who believes Mourinho represents the Magpies\u2019 best chance of ending their 55-year wait to win a major trophy. Howe has done an incredible job as Newcastle manager since taking over in November 2021. He steered the club to Premier League survival in his first season in charge, after inheriting a side who were in the relegation zone and hadn\u2019t won a game all season. In his second season in charge, he then steered Newcastle to Champions League qualification for the first time in 20 years. He also guided United to their first cup final for 24 years, losing to Manchester United in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley. However, this season, injuries have ravaged Newcastle. That being said, they still managed to be competitive in a Champions League group that included PSG, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund and reached the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup and FA Cup. They are currently eighth in the Premier League and while Champions League qualification is now an unrealistic ambition, qualifying for European competition next season is not out of their grasp. However, Mourinho is without a club since leaving Roma earlier this year and is keen to find a new job in the summer. \u201cThe Special One\u201d has won 26 major trophies across spells with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Roma, and has a well known affinity with Newcastle. Mourinho worked as ex-Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson\u2019s translator and assistant coach at Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Barcelona and called himself a \u201cLittle Magpie\u201d because of the stories Robson would tell him about Newcastle. With all of that in mind, True Geordie told the Kick Off podcast that, while Howe\u2019s departure would come with a heavy heart, he feels appointing Mourinho is an opportunity that is too good to miss. \u201cI was thinking about this in the car the other day,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m driving around, you know when you\u2019re debating s**t on your own and I really like Eddie Howe as a person and that\u2019s part of the problem. Topic starts at 12:49 \u201cBecause we had Steve Bruce who could not get through a single press conference without saying something that you\u2019re like: \u2018Oh my God\u2019. \u201cI was on the train and he\u2019s there and I\u2019m like I don\u2019t even want to go over to you and say hello. I don\u2019t admire you. I don\u2019t respect you. \u201cSo now we\u2019ve got Eddie Howe who carries himself with respect, he doesn\u2019t drop his foot in it and he does tend to say the right things a lot of the time and he\u2019s achieved huge things. \u201cHe\u2019s he\u2019s giving us memories. He got us to Wembley. All right, we lost, but f**k me that was a hell of an achievement for a team that have never been to Wembley for over 20 years. \u201cWe literally pushed the the very best of the Champions League to the bitter end to where the referee had to stitch us up to get PSG into the next round, so I\u2019ve got a lot of love and admiration for him. \u201cBut the problem is, logically, there\u2019s a bit of me that goes what has he won though? I believe he can go on to win things but when there\u2019s a manager on the market like Jose Mourinho, who is Sir Bobby Robson\u2019s son in management terms. \u201cHe literally built him. He literally taught him everything he knew as a young man and told him about Newcastle and where he\u2019s from and Mr Robson and all of this. \u201cCould this be the fairy tale? I am a romantic, I actually thought Francis Ngannou had a chance against Anthony Joshua for Christ\u2019s sake, so there\u2019s a bit of me thinking about Jose Mourinho. \u201cIf we are talking about the most winning managers in world football on the market right now, who\u2019s won more than Jose? Has anyone who\u2019s available right now? \u201cIf there\u2019s an opportunity for Newcastle United to get Jose Mourinho, in the way that our fans, even more than Chelsea fans, in my opinion, would fall in love with him, I just think is that an opportunity that we shouldn\u2019t miss? \u201cBecause with Jose, all we want as a club, all I want for the rest of my life is one trophy and if there\u2019s a manager out there who could give you that it\u2019s probably Jose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
True Geordie calls for Newcastle United to make Jose Mourinho \u201cfairy tale\u201d happen YouTube: The Kick Off\/Associated PressNewcastle United should not miss the opportunity to replace Eddie Howe with Jose Mourinho as their manager this summer. That is the bold verdict of YouTuber and Newcastle fan, True Geordie, who believes Mourinho represents the Magpies\u2019 best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}