Shearer udtaler sig om Rafa.
Asked if RafaBenitez will still be boss at Christmas, Alan Shearer told TalkSPORT host Jim White:
“I hope so, but I don’t think we can guarantee that.
“I think there’s definitely a frustration there from him, having spoken to him.
“They’ve been in for a lot of players and they’ve missed out on a lot of players.
“They have tried, but for different reasons they haven’t got some of the players in that they’ve wanted. They’ve been too late, other clubs have gone ahead and beaten them to it.
“Rafa will have them hard to beat, he’ll have them organised and well-drilled, but Rafa wants to be bigger and better than that.
“He went to the Championship knowing that his job was the get the club back into the Premier League, then thinking he could go one-step further and build and get bigger and better – that’s what he wants and if he’s not able to do that he won’t be there for much longer.
“He will have to have signs of bringing more players in, and I think it’s a big two or three weeks regarding bringing a few more in. He needs that, there’s no doubt about it.
“He says he needs a new striker – he might need two – he needs a full-back, and he also wants an experienced goalkeeper. He says they’re working hard to bring those players in and hopefully they can.
“I think we’ll know a lot in a month’s time and if he doesn’t get what he wants than you might see it starting to unravel.”
It's a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his fathers hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love. - Sir Bobby Robson