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Remi Garde is perfect for Newcastle United.

The man is a brilliant coach who made his name at Lyon by preparing the youth players for the first-team – and with huge success.

Garde is an excellent man-manager who will be snapped up sooner or later by a big club. I just hope that Newcastle get in their first.

I am genuinely excited by this possibility. I know him by reputation – we’ve met in person just a couple of times – and I have yet to speak to someone who doesn’t think extremely highly of the guy.

And I am told he is interested.

Garde likes his teams to play football in the proper way. Newcastle fans will love that. His philosophy is to entertain – and isn’t that what football is all about?

Isn’t that what Newcastle United is all about?

Play starts with the centre-backs. He likes them to come out with the ball at their feet and begin moves. His teams play open and attractive football. This is not a negative coach.

My fellow Frenchman is a better manager and coach than Alan Pardew. He will do better than the previous guy.

And I believe he wants the challenge of joining a massive football club with the potential we all know Newcastle possess.

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But there are conditions.

Don’t think for a second that he will crawl to St James’ Park. That he is ready to swim the Tyne just to get a chance to be part of Newcastle United.

Garde isn’t going to accept coming into a club that is ready to sell one of their better players during this transfer window. Take it from me. He will want assurances that if he says yes to becoming head coach, then this squad is not broken up.

Garde won’t keep his mouth shut. He won’t simply accept someone such as Moussa Sissoko being sold to PSG. In fact, he would stay away from this project, as he would see it, unless certain guarantees were made.

Garde spent a lot of time around Arsene Wenger and he knows what the game is and how to play it. He is a strong man. He will want to work with the squad, cultivate it and strengthen, not weaker.

Remy Garde is not going to go to Newcastle because he is desperate for a job. He will go because he believes he can do an excellent job.

This is where the politics of the club may come into play.

We know that the owner, Mike Ashley, will sell anyone for the right price and this will come into Garde’s thinking.

He will be able to work in the knowledge that one player could leave – but not two, three, four or five at the same time.

Garde needs to have a spine to work with. If he gets that, then we may have something special on our hands. If not, I don’t think he would be interested.

One of the big doubts is over whether Sissoko is going to leave over the next three weeks.

If PSG can ship out some players, which I believe they will this month, then they could come in with a bid that would blow Arsenal out of the water.

It would be fair to suggest Ashley would say yes to £20m. However, let’s hope he stays and Garde arrives.

We do have good players, with more to come back in the near future. And with the right man in charge of them, the supporters, of which I am one, should have nothing to worry about.