Supermac Warns Worse Is Still To Come!

"For example, he is just in the final stages of negotiating with Alan Shearer. As far as I was aware, the contract was sorted and Alan just needed to know the transfer budget.

"Then before anything is signed there is an announcement that the club is on the market, so the club is up in the air and the manager is up in the air. In the last two seasons Ashley has had five different managers for heaven's sake - Sam Allardyce, Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and Alan Shearer.

"What I really fear is that come the start of the season there will be a dressing room full of disenchanted, disinterested footballers. They will be playing at a level they don't understand."