Newcastle United’s dressing room mole has been branded ‘a treacherous wretch’ by talkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan.
Steve Bruce has announced the hunt has begun for a traitor in the Magpies camp, after the manager’s training ground bust-up with Matt Ritchie was leaked to the press last week.
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A club ‘source’ told a journalist about a heated confrontation between the boss and the winger on the training pitch, with Bruce reported to have ‘shoulder barged’ Ritchie after he had called his coach a ‘coward’.
Bruce confirmed ahead of Sunday’s Premier League clash against West Brom the reports were 100 per cent true, and the story was a heavy shadow over the team as they drew 0-0 with their relegation rivals.
Speaking ahead of the game, the Magpies manager vowed to ‘find the culprit’ and plug the leak in their ranks.
And outspoken talkSPORT pundit Jordan had his say on Monday, saying there is obvious ‘disloyalty’ within Bruce’s Newcastle camp.
“I had a chat with Steve Bruce, it was a private chat, but what I can tell you is that he’s very focused,” Jordan, who worked with Bruce at Crystal Palace, told talkSPORT host Jim White.
“No one likes to hear about the abuse he’s getting.
“I saw Newcastle play relatively well against Wolves and games leading up to it, but what I saw on Sunday was a very poor game.
“It doesn’t help that you’ve got players like Joelinton who simply don’t want to score goals and is seemingly incapable of understanding where the back of the net is.
“Without going into the territory of defending Steve, it was a game Newcastle mustn’t lose, rather than must-win… and there was a lot of background noise to this game, a lot of unhelpful and necessary press.
“Irrespective of whether a journalist has the right to write an article, you have to wonder why certain players would want that article to come out.
“The notion a player in that camp would want to put a story like that into the press in the run-up to a game, is not about the individual, it’s about the team.
“I wouldn’t have used the word, ‘treason’; I think ‘disloyalty’ would be a better word to use. I think when you go into the territory of ‘treason’ and ‘treachery’ and you can start being ridiculed by people.
“It’s not wrong, it is treacherous. You are a treacherous wretch if you have an altercation on the training ground and decide to go to a newspaper to air that grievance.
“You ARE a treacherous wrench, but to use that terminology… disloyalty is better terminology I think. You should be able to resolve issues without resorting to going to a newspaper, whose main focus is to sell newspapers and not to actually help anybody.”
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