SHEARER???

Found this today on the Express website....

EXCLUSIVE: SHEARER TOP OF WANTED LIST AT SAINTS
Sunday April 26,2009
By John Richardson
A CONSORTIUM with substantial financial backing on the verge of taking over stricken Southampton want Alan Shearer as manager.

Saints will start next season in League One after the Football League deducted 10 points following the club’s parent company going into administration.

Now a consortium involving wealthy local businessmen is putting together a package to ­resurrect the south coast club, which has slipped into football’s third tier for the first time since 1960.

And the man they want to restore pride on the pitch is current Newcastle United boss Shearer, who started his playing career with Saints.

This will present a summer dilemma both for Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and Shearer himself, who is already aware of the interest in him from the consortium.

Shearer insists that he only took the Newcastle job for the last eight games of the season, hoping he could inspire his home-town club to stave off relegation to the Championship.

But there has been talk that the former England striker could be persuaded to stay on, irrespective of Newcastle’s fate, for at least another season, providing enough cash to buy players is made available to him by Ashley.

Now Shearer has been presented with another management option, and at another club which pulls at his heart-strings.

The consortium are confident of being given the go-ahead to take over Saints and will be pushing for an answer from Shearer the moment Newcastle’s season has ended.

They are promising the former England striker a substantial transfer kitty and the promise of no boardroom interference.

Must say I'll be amazed if this one happens!

Substantial financial backing? Substantial transfer kitty??

We are back in the realms of fantasy I'm thinking.....

I wonder if this is one of the four possibles.....

I for one would not want Shearer unless it was as an assistant to start with.

Shearer was one of my favourite footballers, but like SFC Forever I would not want him at St. Mary's. He may well have a lingering affection for Saints but Newcastle would always come first. He would only cut his managerial teeth with us, and once he had achieved some success Newcastle would come calling and then it would be thank you and goodbye!

I agree. If he made it he would leave as Hoddle did for his hometown club like a rocket

It amazes me sometimes how these girls do occasionally listen. Who is he she asked so I had to explain slowly how he could have been a Saints great if he had stayed with us.

What makes anyone think that Shearer would be a successful manager though? He hasn't started well at Newcastle.

Newcastle will struggle in the CCC unless they sell a few of their costly stars and replace them with cheaper younger prospects. The new manager impact didn't helpShearer any I see.