Souness fears the chop

[Mat]

Newcastle boss Graeme Souness has admitted he is feeling the pressure after a disastrous run of form.

Souness has come under fire in recent weeks as The Magpies have slipped to 13th spot in The Premiership.

The former Liverpool and Blackburn manager knows his job is on the line if results do improve quickly.

"In an ideal world my performance at Newcastle would not be held up to serious judgement until the end of next season," Souness told the Daily Mail.

"But I realise this is probably not a club where you get that luxury.

"It's my neck that goes into the noose first when there's a bad spell, I know that."

Souness is working hard in the transfer market to bolster his squad and believes with the right additions he can turn things around.

"We've been discussing players who are at the level we need," added Souness.

"Nothing has been agreed, but we're certainly looking at the right names and when you do that you are talking about a lot of money.

"It's encouraging we are aiming high.

"We have a front six at Newcastle that would challenge anyone, but it's not enough when you're struggling at the back, and it's important to have the firepower in the transfer market to do something about that."


Hopefully he'll be sacked sooner rather than later.

[Pennywise]

Souness can't work with horrible defenders. Lets buy in two quality defenders in January, and give Souness a new chance rest of the season.

[Mat]

Yes, but 13th place is simply not good enough for a team of our quality even with the defence. Also they seem to be even worse under souness. The whole team has no flair or creativity and no desire to win, which two seasons ago we had more desire than anyone.

[Pennywise]

However, I hope we sign some new defenders in January. With or without Souness.

[Mat]

Yep, the defence is beyond a joke and no-one is up to scratch, hopefully new defenders will make a big difference.

[adz-a-fella]

Were they right to sack Bobby in your opinion, 'cos on your position, you have hardly progressed have you?

[Mat]

to be honest they should have had the balls to sack him in the summer and give the new manager a chance. It was a pre meditated decision to sack him and the poor results were just a cover reason. They should have waited till the end of the season to let him go honourably. But the main mistake was appointing souness, one of the few managers who were doing worse than bobby and had no security at his own job at blackburn, a senseless appointment.