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Former Newcastle boss Sam canada goose outlet toronto address Allardyce has revealed he thought he was entering into a canada goose parka outlet uk recruitment meeting when he was sacked as Magpies boss.

canada goose black friday sale ‘Big Sam’ took the reins at St James’ Park in May 2007 but was sacked in January 2008. canada goose black friday sale

Allardyce was appointed by former canada goose victoria parka outlet chairman Freddy Shepherd, only for the club to be taken over by Mike Ashley canada goose outlet montreal a matter of weeks canada goose uk later.

Originally, Ashley was willing to work with Allardyce but when results started canada goose uk site to swing after a positive start, he was replaced by Kevin Keegan.

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Canada Goose Online Allardyce was the special guest on BT ‘s Premier League Tonight show and when asked how he would sum up his time as Newcastle boss, Allardyce replied: „A brief encounter. Canada Goose Online

„My job was with Freddy Shepherd and Freddy said to me this is the last throw of the dice, we are going to try and get in to Europe, Sam, you have been looking for a big club for a long time where you can spend some money, you can do it canada goose outlet edmonton with us.

„I was really looking forward to canada goose outlet store calgary going cheap canada goose there, canada https://www.canadagoosepark.com goose outlet las vegas I had just walked out on Bolton and then all of a sudden, within about three months, there was this takeover that wasn’t seen by Freddy by any stretch of the imagination.

Canada Goose online „Mike Ashley come in and from then it wasn’t what I expected or what I needed. Come January the old sack arrived and off I went. Canada Goose online

He continued: „I knew when I was talking about the players I wanted to look for in January, it was being held up or stalled.

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Canada Goose Outlet „But by the time Christmas come around, we had a bad run. By the time we could buy new players in January they said they canada goose womens outlet didn’t want that to happen and they wanted a change.“ Canada Goose Outlet

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„Yeah, we had given him the targets,“ Allardyce recalled.

„We wanted three specific targets, our recruitment lads had done all the work on them and all the lads and their agents said they would like to come.

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