Former Newcastle United boss John Carver hopes to eventually return to the club.

The Geordie left St James' Park this summer.

Carver told the Evening Chronicle: “If I didn't have any confidence in what I was trying to do, then I would probably settle for being a coach or in the background.

“But I do. I do have the confidence. I don't want to take the easy way out and be somebody's assistant unless I have to. I want to get into a football club and build a football club.

“I've got a point to prove, to myself and to the fans of Newcastle.

“Not all of them because the majority have been very, very good, but to the people who were critical. I'm a winner, I'm not a quitter.

“Why can't, in the future, I go away, be successful and return to Newcastle as manager under different circumstances? I've been back to the football club a few times and it would be a great story to do so again."