Quote Originally Posted by Yarmbaggie View Post
Benetez was already Manager when they went down, not totally his fault but he took them down, he didn’t join them as a Championship side.

Also big big difference between the potential of Newcastle and ourselves, and not just the money.
Benetez didn't really 'take them down' he just didn't have time to save them everything was against him...however he ignored the clause to leave if they didn't stay up and chose instead to rise to the challenge of promotion back to the Premiership...as Mick pointed out 'the money was right'.

When you say the big difference between the potential of Newcastle versus West Brom brings to mind the observation of Whicka...Mon regarding the mindset of a lot of people regarding us as a small club feeding on scraps...not I might add is that my outlook on Albion.

I do believe the fat boys asking price for Newcastle was somewhat lower than what West Brom was sold for.