Shearer in Bellamy plea

12 April 2012

Alan Shearer has urged Newcastle not to bring their former striker Craig Bellamy back to St James' Park.

Wales international Bellamy has been tipped to leave Liverpool and has been linked with a return to Newcastle, where he played alongside Shearer. However, he left the club after a bust-up with then Magpies boss Graeme Souness in 2005.

Shearer, the former Newcastle and England striker, was stunned to discover new manager Sam Allardyce had been linked with Bellamy, saying: "Has no-one learnt their lesson about signing Craig Bellamy? If only (Liverpool boss) Rafa Benitez had rung me I would have told him exactly what he was like. I hope there isn't anything in (the Newcastle reports)."

He added: "I was having a few days away in France with (former Newcastle team-mates) Gary Speed and Steve Harper and the wives and I picked up the newspaper. I was having a fantastic day.

"But when I read Bellamy for Newcastle I thought I would definitely have to have another drink. I had several."

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