Newcastle United, may still be too late. Leaving 10 games in the season and removed the rest of the Premier League, Club Racer finally out of his stupor and finally did something. They sacked Steve McClaren as they had to know what makes them months and named Rafael Benitez instead.
essentially Benitez task is to maintain the shape of the Champions League with a team that has been trying for months, as it is in the championship. After his narrow defeat, opportunities and improved a lot in Leicester, Newcastle has to rescue nine games his skin. At a minimum, need to win four, maybe five of them to have any hope, instead of Norwich and Sunderland to send. Otherwise waving oblivion.
If the worst happens and Benitez is not to transform capable base metals into gold, it will not do well to focus on what made the Spaniards different. It will not help to point the finger at the players say about that he could and preserves have scored more goals, would have played better or worked harder. It could be offered an illusory catharsis McClaren to complain and blame, but even that would attack a symptom, not the cause.
No, it's too late for Newcastle, that is something else, something that presents itself as a good lesson for all other clubs in the Premier League. If it is too late for Newcastle, it is because, like Sunderland and Aston Villa's lack of ambition are is. They live, fall proof of what happens when a club stasis is infected.
and risk - - in St. James Park to take the job a week after Newcastle CEO, Lee Charnley was taken Benitez convince. In general, the talks were not focused on money: how it would be paid; as one might expect a bonus of survival; and how to spend, if the worst is avoided. Instead, the focus was on something less tangible. It focuses ambition.
Benitez - with or without cause, depending on how you want it - sees himself as a coach in the Champions League. He does not want to work for a club, which is exactly what they are. He wants to work on a team, trying to make things to win, try to compete, try to improve. Just try, in fact, does nothing.
For nearly a decade trying to Newcastle, to do something, but still standing. This is the regime of all Mike Ashley really wanted: a club in the Premier League to be safely ensconced in the middle of the table, do not run the risk of Europa League too serious a cup competition take in differs in this case from its main security objectives , security and access to millions of books, the TV rights are due. They bought the player, so that they can sell at a profit, and so they can buy more and to sell them.
All these furious activity devoted only to tread water. The problem with this is, of course, that the Premier League is a shark, always forward. It is full of teams that are trying to improve and enhance their station. Southampton has its young players; Stoke have a team to win the European Cup; Swansea has its philosophy; and West Ham and Everton and West Bromwich Albion and what witchcraft is at work in Leicester.
While Newcastle still devote all his energies to a halt, all these teams reached, surpassing it. It is only a few years that Newcastle himself had considered, perhaps, Southampton are now: the team outside the elite to take the best position advantage of errors. Not now. These are the drivers of England on Sunday trapped inside lane, well, just to be on the same path as all the cars around them their feet on the floor.
It's the same story at Aston Villa, where Randy Lerner has not to invest in the maintenance of rolling TV rights decided. It's the same story in Sunderland, who had not come to believe that there was a link. And it's a story that could still be obtained with three of them their comeuppance. They tried to sit still, and in the end fall behind on.
Newcastle now seems to have recognized the error of his ways. It is safe to assume Benitez, would do the job would not have done when he that the association was not convinced ambitions Charnley if they avoid relegation in the next two months. They promised that they spend as much as they were under McClaren - £ 80 million or less - so that you can make the team again and make sure that this is not, or at least should not be repeated.
However, its history contains a fact that no other team in the country should consider. Yet is the same as dragging and applies not only at the foot of the table, but also the other extreme attractive.
Arsenal spent a happy decade where and what they are. It may be that they do not like, at least not yet, but do not take advantage of other mishaps; than their traditional counterparts stumbled, others have stepped in front of them. Arsenal is a fixed point in a world of constant changes between the motion blur.
And then there is Manchester United, so committed to refer to endless growth of the field, but so happy just from her for excellence. You left off on the search for ways to improve, rather than assuming that his reputation and the history of its implementation. They were to believe the victim tendency, that what you are is what it will always be, as Liverpool 25 years ago. They began also to tread water as. For all the flurry of activity, because they still have to find the old rate.
None of these sites are to be expected on such a serious spell as to subject the certainly or Villa Newcastle can still occur. Pretender contender Champions League places Champions League - - But United and Liverpool already have a fall in their own suffering and if Tottenham and West Ham and Leicester continued to grow, there is no reason Arsenal the same can not follow fashion.
The symptoms vary, but the cause is the same. Whoever you are, where you are, stasis is a murderer.
Rory Smith is a columnist for ESPN FC and The Times. Follow - on @RorySmithTimes Twitter.
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