Shearer Builds His Rock!

Shearer was at Newcastle’s Darsley Park training ground yesterday and it is understood Ashley is preparing a four-year contract offer for Shearer, as well as offering him assurances of a sizeable transfer fund if he can move the club’s big earners off the books.

Shearer has supposedly got a blueprint for next season already, with the established trio of Harper, Taylor and Butt all central to his plans.

Arsenal have kept an eye on Taylor for several years and good performances in the Under-21 European Championships in Sweden this summer will only increase the amount of interest.

Shearer: “This has devastated everybody. There have to be big changes after this and people need to realise it is an honour to play for Newcastle United Football Club – it doesn’t matter what club you are at.

“You have to give it 100% and the past 10 months hasn’t been good enough. It is starting to sink in now we are a Championship team and we have to deal with it.

“We have to put ourselves back up there. St James’s Park is going to have to be a fortress.”