Souness wants a United front!

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Newcastle boss Graeme Souness has called on everyone involved with the club to set their personal agendas to one side and throw their support behind the team this weekend.

Souness arrived on Tyneside in September knowing that he had taken on a big job and not to universal acclaim, but unaware of the extent of the raging debate about the way forward.

Two months on, his honeymoon period has been brought to an abrupt end by three defeats in the last four games, and he heads into Sunday's Barclays Premiership clash with Manchester United with some fans already calling for his head.

"I knew how big this club was before I took the job here, but there are certain things which are different to what I've experienced before," he admitted.

"I have been here seven or eight weeks so I don't know everything about the place just yet. There are things I'm absolutely delighted about and things I'm not so happy about, but don't ask me to go into that.

"The thing I'd like to touch upon is that we should all be pulling in the same direction - that's everybody in the city - and I find that's not always the case.

"Don't ask me to enlarge on that. At another time I will, but I find that disappointing. Everybody in Newcastle should all be pulling in the same direction. That's not the case, and I've found that out very quickly."

Souness' predecessor Sir Bobby Robson made a similar complaint during the latter days of his reign, although Souness is not about to let it deflect him from the job at hand.

"At any football club, any big football club, a manager comes to work every morning and it's 'What problem will you be confronted with today?'," he said. "It's just that it's at this club more than most.

"But that's the price on the ticket. We'll deal with it, we'll get on with it and we'll concentrate on the most important thing, which is to prepare the players and make sure they are 100% ready for the game on Sunday."