• Manager still upset with players over 5-0 ‘surrender’ • Clear-the-air talks scheduled for later in the weekSteve Bruce cancelled a scheduled training session on Monday as emotions reached boiling point at Newcastle United. But it is understood Rafael Benítez’s successor will be given time to try to put things right at St James’ Park. Clear the air talks between team and management are now scheduled for later in the week with the captain, Jamaal Lascelles, expected to assume a prominent role. Moreover Ashley was turned down by several short-listed candidates before appointing Bruce in July and may not find it easy to identify a suitable, and willing, successor. Andy Carroll, who came on as a second-half substitute against Leicester, said: “We can’t play like that again.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 16:30 UTC