Newcastle United’s manager Kevin Keegan quit St James' Park for the second time in his career due to inappropriate interference from within the club, in particular the transfer of club favorite James Milner to Aston Villa recently according to today’s British tabloid. He had been a subject throughout the whole week and being made by bookies the second EPL manager that was on his way out. The prediction was proven to be true as he finally walked away due to major dissatisfaction with board of directors. Keegan was furious to discover members of his already slim squad had been offered for sale during the final hours of the transfer window after he had reluctantly accepted James Milner's £12million departure to Aston Villa. When Keegan was questioned by media a couple days ago referring to his possible resignation, he had denied the speculation immensely. But, Newcastle's fans who had been giving a lot of support to Keegan during his reign at the Tyneside had been left furious and dissapointed with Keegan's decision. There were demonstration being held outside the stadium but surprisingly, it was held in order to express their dissatisfaction towards the board of directors in letting Keegan go. Newcastle's fans believe that a strong Newcastle team as in the good old days can be produced once more via Keegan’s presence. They were trying to force their chairman, Mike Ashley to quit the club too. After his resignation, Keegan said that he was sorry to hurt all the fans, players and staffs’ feelings but he was left without an option as he felt that he was not given the right to do his job according to his way. By having assured the club's fans that he expected to recruit three or four top-quality signings by the time the deadline passed, he was left with only Spanish striker Xisco and loan signing Ignacio Gonzalez to add to earlier arrivals Jonas Gutierrez, Fabricio Coloccini, and Danny Guthrie, and that went nowhere near to meeting his expectations.
*BCT term(s): Causal Relationship and Ad Hominem Circumstantial Fallacy
From this scenario, we can assess that it do contains causal relationship between sentences. Kevin Keegan was disappointed that things were not going as he preferred in the transfer window and he then decided to hand in resignation letter immediately after the transfer deadline had passed. Furthermore, this incident did consist of ad hominem circumstantial fallacy as the club chairman, Mike Ashley who is a billionaire are not able to provide adequate transfer funds as he promised before to the club in order to strengthen the squad. It is illogical to just think that a billionaire can’t afford funds that are required by the club’s manager to spend on new players. Kevin Keegan was targeting at least three more new signings that will cost Ashley not more that £30 million approximately. He obviously had the capital to do so but he refused to spend some of his wealth on new players due to lack of trust to Keegan’s choice of player.
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