Alan Curbishley has dismissed reports linking him to the vacant managerial position at Newcastle.
The North East club yesterday sacked manager Sam Allardyce just six months after he succeeded former Hammers manager Glenn Roeder, who was also dispensed with despite winning 45% of his games.Curbishley was one of the names immediately mentioned as a possible replacement for the former Bolton man, but made it clear this morning that he has no intention of leaving East London.
"I'm at West Ham - and this is where I want to be," he told SkySports, before slamming Newcastle for parting with their manager so soon after luring him from Bolton.
"Newcastle are mid-table, they don't look as though they're going to be involved in anything relegation-wise and a couple of results could push them into the top six," he added.
"If you give a manager a job and he makes wholesale changes you're not going to see the results of that in six months. You look at the Premier League now with eight managers gone in six months and that's a tough situation we're in.
"The expectation levels of everybody is a big problem; people have got to be realistic. I went through a similar situation this time last year and it's not nice."
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