Source close to Ashley claim that Mike wants Hughes at first place after taking the decision to sack Allardyce, but later he made Harry Redknapp his top target upon the advice of Paul Kemsley. Ashley thought with Paul Kemsley having far more experience in football, he must be right about Redknapp.

Ashley known to admire the Welsh manager when he was regularly visiting Ewood Park regarding to commercial tie-up between Blackburn’s former kit manufacturer Lonsdale which is one of Ashley company.

Now, after Harry Redknapp is announcing to stay at Pompey, Mike turn on his sight back to Hughes again. The senior Newcastle United sources, told the Guardian last night about the CVs of other candidates are also being scrutinized. The name of other strong candidates are including Gérard Houllier, Jose Mourinho and Steve McClaren.

Before coming back from his business trip, Mike have said that he needs time to make his final decision about the one who will be the next United manager. The club source also admits they (Ashley and Chris Mort) will take their time in making a careful appointment.

But, after watching the last Saturday’s trashing by Manchester United and how the United caretaker Nigel Pearson said it is the situation that would be best to served first, there’s no other way for both Mike Ashley and Chris Mort except to make the decision immediately.

The man himself, Mark Hughes, said he had not had any contact with Newcastle so far and he doesn’t answer to any hypothetical questions that come to his side about the possibility to manage Newcastle United.

“It’s not in my hands; it’s in the chairman’s hands. I’m proud to be Blackburn Rovers’ manager (but) in football you can never say never.” He told the Guardian.

Meanwhile, the Magpies Zone source said the thing about Hughes that bothers the Toon Army is that he is a classic ‘other club’ man. There isn’t anything about him for Newcastle to be proud of. He is just doesn’t feel right to some.

So, who will be the one?

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Chris Mort also aware of Mike Ashley would not be so pleased with 4-1 drubbing by Portsmouth at St James’ Park. Not to mention the way United capitulated without even putting up with a fight.

They don’t look interested to chasing the game and in fact was looking confused and helpless without any clue of what to do next, I believe this is was the job of team manager realy is.

More frustrating thing is that we haven’t meet the Big Boys of the Premierships yet, with the start of his future test will be the stadium of sh*te. The fact is that Geordie’s #1 enemy Roy Keane was there at the St. James’ Park, and he probably thinking of the win for his side next Saturday.

On that last Saturday, Steve Harper who make his return to the Toon goal, look very depressed and cannot believe he was the one who have to had that experience.

“We had a constructive meeting and looked at what went wrong (last Saturday). We felt we had to analyse what happened in those eleven minutes.” Said Harper on the official site.

More of that Allardyce speaks again about that disastrous moment as getting back to basics, back to square one. It’s back to rolling our sleeves up and digging in.

“You’ve got to stick to the basics – and if you don’t do that, you’ll never be resilient, never look organised and never be a good side in possession, or a difficult side to break down out of possession. You can’t play football on ability alone.”

The question is what does he means by stick to basics? If that was something related to what Benjani’s said about a schoolboy defending, then the basic would be far away to reach the level of Premierships game. Basic defending, allowing opponent attackers to come into our own territory and destroy everything in eleven minutes at home was no basics at all.

Well, let’s hope both the manager and the players now have the clue and stick together to bring back our faith to them, this Saturday will be the one and only medicine for it, let’s wait and see.

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