A lot of Newcastle United fans have reacted to a piece from the Daily Mail reporting of an argument between Allan Saint-Maximin and Steve Bruce.
It includes details of some players reportedly annoyed at the tactics that Bruce has used.
Is Steve Bruce out of his depth?
Yes
No
The piece suggests that these players believe Newcastle can play better football and are more capable than Bruce is making out in public.
This piece has gone down well with these Toon fans who want to see Bruce sacked as manager.
Also included is concern among some players over tactics who believe team should be playing better football & are more capable than Bruce is making out in public.
— Craig Hope (@CraigHope_DM) March 2, 2020
They are more capable. This football is terrible. He’s turned half decent players into even worse players. #nufc
— Matt Guest (@Guesty22) March 2, 2020
I have been waiting for this to happen the past few weeks.
— John Gorman (@DrogsNavan) March 2, 2020
In other words he’s losing the team and is maybe blaming ASM for something that has gone on, also Bruce is clearly out his depth and the job is far to big for him if he has any integrity he should walk let’s face it its not gonna be the 1st time is it
— joe erskine (@wesleymartin09) March 3, 2020
This is worse than the McClaren era. Can we please just get over the line and then have a change in manager for the summer. Really isn’t any point in giving Bruce “80m” when he isn’t capable of setting them up to succeed. Pretty sure we could have Messi in this side & not score
— Mohsin Khan (@mkhan185) March 3, 2020
Surprised it took this long, dressing room gone
— Aaron (@uhugl3w) March 2, 2020
Finally players are sick of the negative football we playing ?
— Ste saint maximin (@stenicho86) March 3, 2020
Mutiny in the camp. Never a good sign. Get him out!!
— Mark Gillon (@mgillon81) March 3, 2020
What do we think?
This could be considered a bad thing, but the Toon are the lowest scorers in the league and have managed one Premier League goal between their forward line of Joelinton, Dwight Gayle, Yoshinori Muto and Andy Carroll).
So, in our opinion, the players probably have the right to be annoyed with Bruce for his tactics.
Newcastle face Southampton in their next league game, and maybe the players will be hoping for a more ambitious approach from Bruce for that match.