Toon need new blood and vision for future
RAFA Benitez wants improved backing in the transfer market to ease his Newcastle “suffering”.
The Toon boss has refused talks about extending his contract while he prioritises keeping Toon in the top flight – and getting promises on a clear plan for the future.
But he admits that will be a step by step process and he has been frustrated by the way the club has worked in the last three transfer windows.
In a wide-ranging interview given at the team’s Spanish training camp, Benitez, who took over two years ago with the Magpies heading for the Championship, said: “I enjoy it when we’re winning but it’s difficult to enjoy it when you’re suffering all the time. You win and then you lose.
“The priority was to go up and the priority is to stay in the Premier League.
“Still there are a lot of things you can’t change.
“Someone has to take responsibility. The problem in football is sometimes you take the responsibility for the mistakes of others.”
The 57-year-old Spaniard added: “If something is wrong, then you have to change but still you don’t have all the tools that you want to have to make the right decisions.
“So it’s little by little.
“We have changed the scouting department. We have more information. Still someone has to make the decision.
“Even when you have the name of the player, to bring the player here, sometimes it means you have to pay a transfer fee or you have to pay wages or you have to attract him because you are in the Premier League, not on the brink.”