Amid all the rumors surrounding his possible exit, Steve Bruce finally reacted to his continuity as Newcastle United’s manager with the takeover.
Steve Bruce has been Newcastle United’s manager for two years and he’s not done particularly well during this time. However, this hasn’t been entirely his fault as Mike Ashley did a questionable job during his tenure as the owner. There’s an important part of the club’s supporters who want Steve Bruce to get his crack at building the squad. But the club’s owners are convinced that such a massive responsibility could prove too much for him.
Regardless of what happens to him, Bruce wanted to open up about his future at the club. First of all, he’s developed much love for the institution and he places that before his personal achievements. When asked about his possible sacking, Bruce was pretty clear about the importance of Newcastle succeeding in English football. As it tends to always happen inside this historic club, any manager who comes falls completely in love with the team’s entire personality that also includes the fans.
Bruce won’t get in the way of Newcastle.
As per The Telegraph, here’s what Steve Bruce said: “I want to continue, I’d like the chance to show the new owners what I can do, but you have to be realistic and they may well want a new manager to launch things for them. New owners normally want a new manager. I’ve been around long enough to understand that. That decision is not up to me. I accept that and I will accept what comes my way. I have to wait to have those conversations with people when the time is right. If I don’t make it to a 1,000 games against Spurs, you might say that could only happen to me, but I don’t think it would be cruel. It’s just football.
“This is not about me, I cannot stress that enough. I have said from the first-day news of this takeover came out in public, that if it is the best thing for the football club, if it takes this magnificent football club forward then I am all for it. I am not going to be bitter or angry about anything, whatever happens. Of course there will be sadness if I lose my job, it’s the job I’ve wanted my whole life, certainly since I became a manager and as hard as it’s been, I have been enormously proud to be manager of Newcastle United. That will never change. What happens to me, well, it’s not irrelevant, but this is about the football club and its future. I really hope this is the start of an exciting new era, it certainly sounds exciting when you read about how much money Saudi Arabians have.”
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