OPINION
Feyenoord manager Jaap Stam has confirmed in an interview with VI that he was approached by Newcastle United in the summer as the Magpies hunted down Rafa Benitez’s successor and based on the reaction of these fans, it might have been a good thing that the ex-Reading boss rejected a move to St James’ Park. One has even gone so far to say that Stam would have been worse than Steve Bruce, who has proven to be a hugely unpopular choice of replacement for Benitez among the fanbase. Feyenoord are not doing too great this season and Stam was sacked by Championship side Reading last year. He also has no managerial experience in the Premier League so surely Newcastle’s interest in him was merely tentative rather than anything serious. There’s no way Mike Ashley and Lee Charnley would have wanted him, would they? Unfortunately, knowing those two, the sad reality is that they probably did.
NothingButNewcastle has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/robinnufc/status/1186544153431302144
Hes the only one mentioned who would have been worse than Bruce and that's hard to beat. #nufc
— Peachy…🏁🖤🤍🏁 (@colinrpeat) October 22, 2019
Better than Bruce but his Reading team were one of the most boring teams I'd ever seen in our champ season. Just passed th2 ball sideways for the sake of passing
— Mobin Hussain (@Mobs_) October 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/LeroyNUFC/status/1186554980033060864
He was all talk at Reading when we were last in the Championship.… IIRC didn’t he say that Brentford and Fulham were better than #NUFC
— chrscnvry (@chrscnvry) October 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/TilehurstsOwn/status/1186544177951264768
https://twitter.com/robinnufc/status/1186541948007567360
