Newcastle United fans deserve a trophy – Danny Simpson | OneFootball

Danny Simpson has been talking about Newcastle United.

The defender a very good performer for NUFC in his four seasons at St James’ Park.

An excellent Chris Hughton signing, initially on loan and then made permanent for £750,000, Danny Simpson helped Newcastle United get instant promotion back to the Premier League. Despite Mike Ashley selling off any player he got a decent bid for and only allowing Hughton a pittance to spend, relying mainly on loan deals and free transfers to supplement the players who remained after relegation in 2009.

Danny Simpson made 30 Premier League starts in the 2010/11 season after promotion, helping United pull off some stunning results, including 5-1 v Sunderland, 3-1 home to Liverpool, 1-0 at Arsenal, as well as playing in that astonishing 4-4 with the Gunners at SJP.

With 35 PL starts in 2011/12, Danny Simpson was a key performer as United finished fifth.

However, a familiar story emerged, Simpson ending up leaving at the end of the following season as a free agent, with Mike Ashley getting friendly media to portray Danny Simpson as the greedy one. Rather than the NUFC owner as usual not willing to pay the going rate.

The rest is history, Simpson joining QPR and then Leicester City, where again he was a key performer, helping the Foxes pull off that stunning Premier League title success.

Now Danny Simpson believes Newcastle United fans deserver to also pick up belated silverware AND he thinks they have the manager and players to now deliver that.

“Newcastle United fans deserve a trophy.

“For me personally, having played for Newcastle, and being a Man U fan, well I would love to see Newcastle beat Liverpool.

“We don’t want Liverpool winning everything do we?

“I was really impressed with the team and how they played against Arsenal, I was impressed with their tactics and how they pressed them.

“It looks like the Newcastle players believe in it [the project], they believe in themselves and the manager [Eddie Howe].

“And they should believe, they should be getting to finals because Newcastle is a massive club, especially compared to a few years ago.

“The players that were involved in that defeat in the final a couple of years ago, well they’ll have learn from that and going to play at Wembley will have done them a lot of good.

“It’s about the whole week before the game, the build-up and all that comes with getting to a final.

“This time they’re going into the match knowing what to expect. They’re more experienced in terms of that.

“It looks like tactics are right. The manager is doing a great job and the personnel look good.

“And they you’ve got a striker like Alexander Isak up front. You’ve got a striker who can bang in goals and do what he’s doing, it just fills you with confidence.

“You know you’ve always got a chance of winning when you’ve got a striker like that, full of confidence and who can find the back of the net.”

“The other players are always going to put a shift it and keel clean sheets, they did that twice against Arsenal, which was a great effort.”

“I knew they were going to struggle last year playing in the Champions League and the Premier League.

“We did it at Leicester and it’s really hard. It’s such a massive difference on your workload.

“When you’ve got Saturday to Saturday just to prepare for a league game, well it’s just so much easier than preparing for European games in midweek.

“But to now have that experience under their belt of what’s required, I think Eddie Howe has said it himself, the European experience has helped him.

“They’re in that mindset now where they can get themselves ready for a big match every two and a half days.

“It’s all about getting your preparation right and they seem to have done great with that.

“They want to play in a certain way, high energy, pressing and everyone going at it, it’s obviously a lot better when you don’t have a midweek game in Europe, especially with all the travel that’s associated with it.”