Former Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce claims he recommended Eddie Howe as his replacement.
Bruce was sacked with the club in serious danger of relegation back in 2021, when the club had recently been bought by Saudi Arabia.
After his sacking, the consortium chose Eddie Howe and have gone from strength to strength.
During a recent appearance on the Business of Sport Podcast, Bruce stated: "The people that took over Newcastle, Amanda Staveley and her husband (Mehrdad Ghodoussi) they came to see me and if you remember back it was the Wednesday they took over and we were playing Spurs on Saturday and that was to be my 1000th game as a manager.
"And they both came in and said 'listen Steve, how can we help you?' and I said 'look, I'm the only negative left.' The euphoria of Newcastle, the support, the crowd, everything about it. It was as if the doom and gloom had shifted and everything was Euphoric.
"And they've had an unbelievable rise in the last eighteen months or so. But I had to say to them 'look, you might have to take me out of the equation'. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to say but I realise it was the best for the club because everything was euphoric around the club, the only negative was me.
"They even asked me who I would recommend and I did recommend Eddie [Howe] and I hope Steven doesn't mind but I recommended Steven Gerrard too but I recommended that someone like Eddie or Steven that is young should take it on. It was difficult and I've never done it before, sort of given up, but I felt it was best for the club."