Ex-NUFC defender Sol Campbell missed out on the Oxford United job to another former Mag in Craig Bellamy.
However he’s not taken to it too well, saying they have missed out on the ‘one of the greatest minds in football’.
He arrived at Newcastle looking like a walrus, obviously looking for a last 'pay day' before he packed in his playing career.
But he certainly has respect for himself ... perhaps he should listen to what others have to say about him.
Here’s what the former Arsenal, England and NUFC defender has had to say after being rejected by Oxford:
‘I did go (for the Oxford job) and they didn’t accept me
‘Maybe it was a lack of experience, things like that, but it’s a full circle. Experience? How do I get experience? Well I need a job to get experience.
‘I don’t want to go too low that it’s a struggle, and I don’t want to go too low that I’m under someone and thinking ‘what am I doing here?’ I would rather be managing a club myself.
‘I’m confident and it’s not like it’s rocket science to run a football club, especially when you get to that level. If you’re intelligent enough and a quick learner you will learn pretty soon, within two or three games, what the team needs, training-wise, to survive in that league, get better in that league, to get in the play-offs or even win the league.
‘I’m intelligent enough, it’s not like I played on a fox and dog pitch all my life. I can’t believe some people, I’m one of the greatest minds in football and I’m being wasted because of a lack of experience or ‘maybe he talks his mind too much’.
‘Go to Germany, they love people who speak their minds. They got the jobs. I’m sorry that I’ve got a mind, but don’t be scared of that. That should be something you want at your club, but obviously not.”