Micah Richards

We all knew that.

He was a good manager and he will continue to be a good manager somewhere else.

He probably learned a lot from that job.

Yeah, but when you're that stubborn, Gaz, you can't be stubborn in the Premier League at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

It just can't happen because you get scrutinized every single week.

If he was getting results while in his formation, then it'd have been fine.

There was times where United were...

That word in it, everyone says, there or thereabouts.

And then every time it looked like it was going to get into the top four, they'd lose or they'd draw.

Now it's different.

So, yeah, he'll be gutted when he reflects and thinks, if I would have just been less stubborn with the players that Man United have got now and coming up to the summer, he just could have built something special.

No, because financial fair play was just changing around that time.

So, yeah, I understand that.

But I think for Newcastle, it's more retaining the players, building that environment where players feel as though they can go to Newcastle and be there for five, six, seven years or whatever it may be.

If you look at the players like Aguero and Silva and Yaya Torre.

And Richards.

I mean...

It's just because if you look at the drama with ESAC and Newcastle is such a big club, but there are always other clubs who have that pulling power, just building something special there that you feel as though you don't need to go anywhere else.

It's a good club though, isn't it, Newcastle?

I love it.