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Harry Redknapp is in the frame for the Newcastle job after their Selhurst Park slaughter on Saturday.

Brendan Rodgers is the bookies’ favourite for Steve McClaren’s job after the Magpies were stunned 5-1 by Crystal Palace, managed by former Toon boss Alan Pardew.

But Redknapp is also tipped to be the man to sort out the shambles with Newcastle having won just twice this season and fears that McClaren has lost the dressing room.

McClaren, whose men actually took the lead at Palace, remains adamant that is not the case.

The former England boss, who tore into his underperforming players in training last week, said: “The reaction from the beginning showed that they were very focused before the game. We’ve had 20 minutes where we’ve looked a good team.

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“They’re not doing it for each other, and sometimes it’s not about me, it’s about each other.

“When you’re a player – and I’ve been a player and a coach and have been among dressing rooms that are not together – it’s about peer pressure.

“It’s about pride, it’s about working for each other, it’s about not letting him down next to me and him down next to me. At the present moment we’ve not got that.”

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Toon legend Alan Shearer told Match of the Day on Saturday night: “You cannot coach players who do not want to be coached, who are not good enough. They have got too many Monday-to-Friday players: good in training, don’t want to perform on a Saturday.”

Papiss Cisse headed a 10th-minute opener but Newcastle were then abject as James McArthur and Yannick Bolasie both hit two, Wilfried Zaha hit the other.