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NEWCASTLE have announced that Rafa Benitez will leave on June 30 when his contract expires - but who is the favourite to succeed him"

Atsu?s time at Newcastle Christian Atsu made the permanent switch to Newcastle in July of 2017, for a fee believed to be around £6.75 million. Atsu had spent the previous season on loan at the Magpies from Chelsea, before signing permanently. In...

Mikel Arteta won the Premier League as Manchester City coach last season (Picture: Getty Images) 37-year-old Arteta has been assistant coach at Manchester City under Pep Guardiola since July 2016 and has been linked with a number of roles while he...

Alan Shearer is in top form on Monday morning. Whilst the likes of Dennis Wise and Steve Harmison spoke out last week in defence of Mike Ashley and against Rafa Benitez. The Newcastle United legend, as usual, knows the score. ...

UKMom who 'killed son, 3, during game of chicken' screeches and wails as she's jailed@rafabenitezweb you were brilliant for the Toon. June 24, 2019 Newcastle’s statement in full It is with disappointment that we announce manager...

Friday night we saw a significant update on the situation regarding the potential Newcastle United Takeover and Rafa Benitez’ position, by George Caulkin from The Times. If you were wanting sugar coated blind optimism then it wasn’t what you...

Gary Lineker calls it ‘awful news for the club and their fans’ as Mike Ashley has today forced Rafa Benitez out of Newcastle United. Top football writer and another non-Newcastle fan Henry Winter of The Times declaring: ‘Mike Ashley lets...

Today came the news I have dreaded for the past few months. Reading about Rafa Benitez in black and white, it reminded me of those awful pieces of news that just stop you in your tracks. Gutting. Rafa Benitez should never have been here in the...

NEWCASTLE fans are in for a long, hard season following Rafa Benitez?s exit - and the bookies reckon it could end in relegation.

There are some ‘interesting’ quotes from Rafa Benitez, Mike Ashley, Joe Kinnear and Lee Charnley below. Sometimes it helps to go back in time to help you understand how we have got to where we are now. Just in case anybody asks, no, there are...

Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle departure confirmed Newcastle United fans would have been prepared for Monday’s news. And yet, confirmation that Rafael Benitez is leaving St. James’ Park will likely go down like a lead balloon on Tyneside. After...

Rafa Benitez guided Newcastle to the Championship title in 2016-17 (Picture: Getty) The 59-year-old has rejected numerous offers from the club over a contract extension during the past 18-months and is said to have been offered a £12m-a-year deal...

Monday morning has brought claims that Miguel Almiron could be leaving Newcastle United after only five months at the club. The report states that Newcastle would take £35m for the Paraguayan international, which would represent a £14m quick...

Ant and Dec have given their reaction to the shock news of Rafa Benitez leaving Newcastle United. The club having release a statement (see below) stating that after 30 June 2019, Rafa would be no longer manager. Like all other Newcastle fans, it...

NEWCASTLE?s problems could be set to worsen with Rafa Benitez?s backroom team set to follow him out of St.James? Park.

Shola Ameobi was announced by Newcastle United (see below) in a new role last week. People might say he is a lovely bloke and all that but I have to say it doesn’t look great when Mike Ashley gives him a job. Considering all the embarrassing...

The breaking news on Monday is that Rafa Benitez is leaving Newcastle United. The worst fears of Newcastle fans realised. After years of Mike Ashley messing the manager about, he is walking away. An official club statement on Monday...

Newcastle United let Rafa Benitez walk away. Mike Ashley dragged Newcastle further into disrepute by allowing Rafa Benitez to walk away from the club after failing to agree contract renewal terms. The decision was posted on the club’s website,...

As we get to the business end of things with Mike Ashley and Rafa Benitez, media intensity is sure to increase by the day. In only seven days time we arrive at the final day of the manager’s contract and whilst contracts only count for so much...

RAFA BENITEZ will leave Newcastle when his contract runs out next week with further talks between now and then looking increasingly unlikely, according to the latest reports.

Two months ago, Alan Pardew was interviewed by his media mate Jason Burt. The out of work manager saying that after a much needed ‘break’ he now felt ready to get another job in management. His journalist mate writing (see below) there was...

More and more I see this repeated and repeated, especially on social media, the line that ‘52,000 Newcastle United fans will turn up next season whatever happens’ at St James Park. It is increasingly used as a cheap insult by a small minority...

RAFA BENITEZ looks set to depart Newcastle next week with a mammoth offer on the table from China - but he will turn them DOWN.

I wrote to The Mag back on 3rd May about Mike Ashley and Rafa Benitez (see below), as well as the whole Newcastle United situation overall. Over seven weeks later and it remains a case not so much of ‘If Rafa goes we go’, more like ‘If Ashley...

Newcastle’s split from Rafa Benitez The way the Mail on Sunday tell the story, Newcastle United will be managerless in just over a week. On June 30, Rafa Benitez’s contract with Newcastle United expires. Benitez is widely considered to have...

Salomon Rondon and Venezuela went into last night’s match, knowing a win would guarantee a Copa America quarter-final place. After only two minutes Darwin Machis put them a goal up against Bolivia and on 55 minutes added a second. Justinaino...

CHINESE Super League side Dalian Yifang?s audacious offer to Rafa Benitez is worth more than FIVE TIMES his Newcastle salary.

For Newcastle fans, it isn?t a case of distance making the heart grow fonder with Mike Ashley 300 miles or so away from St James Park. As for Mike Ashley himself, a lot of the time it might feel like he is the equivalent of an absent landlord, just...

Fair to say that Mike Ashley hasn’t brought many smiles to the faces of Newcastle fans in recent weeks, nor indeed these past 12 years (and counting). However, there has been the odd headline that has cheered NUFC supporters up, when it comes to...

Looks like things are set to go up a few notches with Mike Ashley and a PR push in the coming days, weeks… It feels like the entire football club is in limbo. On Friday night, George Caulkin of The Times gave us an update, saying that from what...

Newcastle fans and MP for Newcastle Central, Chi Onwurah, has once again been left with no alternative but to write to Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, with regard to Mike Ashley and the situation at Newcastle United. Chi Onwurah’s constituency...

Steve Harmison was a great fast bowler for Durham and England. He may be a big Newcastle United fan. However, we have learnt to realise that when he starts talking about NUFC, it can get very embarrassing (see below). (adsbygoogle...

Dwight Gayle is at a crossroads. The striker has two years left on his Newcastle contract and set to turn 29 in October, has a big decision to make. On the face of it there appears to be two, probably three choices. (adsbygoogle =...

An update on the Newcastle United Takeover and Rafa Benitez’ position on Friday night. The update coming from George Caulkin at The Times. If you were wanting sugar coated blind optimism then maybe best to look away now. ...

Mike Ashley may be staying silent on the much reported potential takeover of NUFC. He might also be saying nothing about the position of Rafa Benitez who sees his contract run out in 10 days time. Nor is the owner giving any indication on this the...

It amazes me and I guess it does the same for most of you, that some Newcastle  supporters are still in denial about Miguel Almiron. Some people will always swim against the tide, especially in these days of rampant social media, wanting to be...

Newcastle United fans could once again find themselves in familiar territory. In the pre-Rafa Benitez days of puppet managers/head coaches, they were willing/eager to say anything to please Mike Ashley and keep their jobs, such was the...

IMAGINE visiting a fortune-teller and being told you?re going to win the lottery and live to a ripe old age.

Mike Ashley is now only seven weeks away from being in charge of his 13th season at Newcastle United. You could say unlucky for some and you would be correct. Once again, I allowed myself to feel some hope as we approached the end of last season...

Only nine days to go until Rafa Benitez sees his Newcastle United contract come to an end. Absolutely nothing from the club, at least nothing positive anyway. All we have had is season ticket price rises and the latest rubbish replica shirt from...

Newcastle United have been linked with a lot of players this summer. Not a day goes by when the Magpies are not linked with a new potential signing. The less (nobody!) players that Newcastle buy, the more that we are linked with. ...

NEWCASTLE fans are all too aware of Rafa Benitez?s contract situation with their manager yet to sign a new deal with time running out.

It is now exactly five weeks since Benitez met Ashley in London to discuss a new contract. Some Newcastle fans had hoped/assumed that surely this time it would be a quick shake of hands and a new contract agreed. That meeting surely having been...

Newcastle fans have a lot on their minds at the minute. Obviously the ownership issue, Rafa’s future and whether any new signings are going to be made, are the three most pressing. However, despite being some way down the list, the future of...