Alan Shearer

What happened and how come Newcastle are here now?

What did happen, Alan?

Well, I'm not on the inside, so I'm only looking at it from an outsider's point of view.

It looks as if to me is that

What's happened in the summer hasn't helped anyone because they didn't have no sporting director.

They didn't have any chief executive.

And that for me clearly wasn't right.

And it left the club in a bit of turmoil.

They then have gone from being a club that has recruited so well.

I mean, look at Hall, look at Liveramento, look at... Hall's great, by the way.

Ternali, Brood, all these guys that they brought in for big money.

Isak was another one.

So they brought all these guys in for decent money and all these guys have been brilliant.

Yet this summer...

Newcastle's recruitment hasn't worked.

They've spent an absolute fortune.

Well, of course, yeah.

They were left in a really difficult situation, but...

With no sporting director and no chief executive, who was managing that situation?

Who was actually saying, right, if this happens, we have to have cover.