Souness: Newcastle have big problems

Graeme Souness has launched a scathing

attack on Newcastle

United, warning

prospective owner Mike

Ashley he is inheriting a

"big club with big

problems".

Former Newcastle boss

Souness believes Ashley

must invest if the club

are to break into the

Premiership’s top four.

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And he added that new

manager Sam

Allardyce, who left

Bolton to succeed Glenn Roeder, will find

Newcastle a different

animal.

He said: "You

wake up in morning

when you manage a big

club and you look to get

through a day with the

fewest problems. I

didn’t enjoy my time up

there. It’s not the

pressure of expectation.

"I’ve worked at bigger

clubs than Newcastle

and expectation you

can live with. It’s

everything else you

have to put up with."