Ameobi craves Toon top job

[RafaTheGaffa]

Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi admits he already harbours dreams of managing his home town club.

 

The popular Geordie has been a Magpie all of his career so far and, entering the prime years of his playing days, is beginning to make plans for the future.

 

Ameobi has already secured his Uefa B licence and is currently in the process of gaining his A licence by working with Newcastle's youth teams, alongside Alan Shearer.

 

Current Newcastle incumbent Graeme Souness has been full of praise for Ameobi's impact in the dressing room, with the player conceding that he craves the top job at St James' Park.

 

''I've said all along, no matter what, next ten seasons will be my last as a player,'' said Ameobi.

 

''I have other goals in my career now. Who knows - fifteen or twenty years down the line, I could be coming back here.

 

''You have to set targets and that would be the one if I went into that side of the game.

 

''However long it takes, that would be the eventual goal. People know how much this club means to me and if I was lucky enough to come back as a manager, they would get 100 percent out of me.

 

''It is not a job for the faint-hearted but it is a great job. For a Geordie like me, the best bar none.''

[Benitez]

he's better qualified than Souness then!

 

I'm sure Souness doesn't have UEFA coaching badges

[ManxRed]

The position's going to be vacant fairly soon as well! Go Shola, go Shola, go Shola...

[RafaTheGaffa]

Yep. Souness doesn't have any coaching badges. He's a premership manager based purely on his abaility as a player.

 

Crazy....

[Mono]

Ameobi has already secured his Uefa B licence and is currently in the process of gaining his A licence by working with Newcastle's youth teams, alongside Alan Shearer.

 

Well he might as well do something with all the spare time he has on Saturday afternoons

[Vlad JNR]

Are you sure about Souness? I thought it was a requirement that all managers have got coaching licenses. When Eddie Gray was installed as the Leeds manager wasn't there a bit of a kerfuffle because he didn't have any coaching qualifications.

[McBain]

Things must be bad for a manager when the 3rd worst player at the club wants his job

Edited January 17, 2006 by Mcbain

[Spike]

with a coaching team of Bramble, Boumsong, and with Woodgate returning as club doctor

[_00_deathscar]

Wow.

 

And Geordies thought things couldn't get any worse.