Sir John Hall recommends surprise name to Saudis as NUFC search for Steve Bruce replacement

Now here’s an interesting view from a man that made the vast majority of right decisions that the fans applauded during his tenure.

Enter Sir John Hall and his suggestion that we appoint Arsene Wenger as a ‘caretaker.’

On talkSport he said, “I had tremendous regard for Arsene Wenger. He was an intellectual in the game and I’d be looking for the calibre of Arsene Wenger. That’s the kind of manager we need, a thinker and someone who knows which way the game is going.”

Sir John is a man whose opinion I always respect and knows the Club as well as anyone, making this a surprising yet equally interesting suggestion to the Saudi consortium.

Would it be that mad an appointment? Not in my eyes but, it does seem as if the new owners don’t want, other than Jonesy, a caretaker and their appointment will be someone they see taking us beyond this season if we stay up.

As present, it appears that Bruce’s replacement will come from one of Favre, Fonseca, or Howe, but then again who knows. The pace that things move with and the unexpected things that happen often surprise us all. I mean who would have thought two weeks ago that we'd have new owners and no more Steve Bruce!

On the subject of Bruce these are my last thoughts. I think some people have been too personal in their comments towards him. But in reality to walk away from a job where he's 100% under performed with £8m in his pocket means I can't have a lot of sympathy for him.

As a bloke he seems a good guy and in general people like him as a person. He seems genuine in being a fan of the Club but as a manager he was never ever going to be good enough to get us to where a Club of our standing should be.

We didn’t want him to fail, but the feeling was he would and so it proved. He couldn't take criticism and responded to fans very negatively and brought a lot of the issues he faced on himself, in my opinion. But he's gone and personally we need to leave him behind and move on.

That’s it, let’s move on and I’m sure there’s another exciting day of intrigue, rumours and speculation ahead.