Jamie Carragher

I mentioned this last week.

I think people in football would love Steve Bruce to get a chance.

But if you're looking at owners coming in and whether it was football or any business, I always feel if that person is not the guy you want to manage your club, why?

so to just stop doing what you want to do right from the beginning instead of maybe giving steve bruce 100 200 300 million and he's not your guy and you're doing it just to appease people in some way so people don't criticize you for changing a manager straight away i think the new regime comes in and they don't feel steve bruce is the the man they want to take them exactly where they want to go they've got every right to change that if they do

believe Steve Bruce is the right man happy days for everyone as I said people would love to see him get given a chance but I don't think new owners coming to Newcastle should be criticised if they change the manager they want to hit the ground running and Pochettino was the best possible manager I think Newcastle could get right at this moment he's available you're talking about Pochettino actually saying almost saying he would like the job

uh i mean at this moment pochettino is getting linked with bigger jobs than newcastle and the newcastle job even though there's great excitement up there and i'm pleased for them in some ways but it won't be straight away right to the top there'll be lots of players who come in who don't work who cost lots of money and you'll have to replace and that's just the building process i think the the perfect example of that is is what happened at man city and

A similar situation with Mark Hughes.

The club bringing certain players in.

Rubinho trying to sign Kaké.

And they were trying to go for players that they probably didn't need right at that moment.

And the building process then started a little later.

And you see the great success that they had.

So I think certainly if the funds we hear about are similar to Man City, they are the model for them.

But with Pochettino...

he is getting linked with things like Real Madrid and Manchester United.

They're far bigger clubs than Newcastle and right at the top end now rather than where Newcastle are.

So it would be a big decision if he did put his hand up to take the Newcastle job and then, for instance, maybe the Manchester United job was available in six to 12 months.

Even though I'm talking about something with my teammates here and friends, I'm sick of hearing footballers make excuses and always blaming the manager, always blaming the coach, where we lived, ketchup on the table.

I mean, whether there's ketchup on the table, it's got nothing to do with anything.

The base we were in, I thought I loved it.