John Carver has admitted he has ambitions to manage in his own right once again after being handed the Newcastle reins as Alan Pardew prepares to leave for Crystal Palace. "I think you always have those ambitions don't you? But you've got to wait for the right opportunity. Now the manager looks like going, what's my situation? Only time will tell.
"My head's going 100 miles an hour here, as you can imagine. I think that every coach who goes into football wants to be a manager, and there will be a day when I want to be a manager again, there's no doubt about that."
Press Association Sport understands the vacancy is for a head coach rather than a traditional manager with Charnley and chief scout Graham Carr remaining in charge of recruitment.
He said: "I have not read a newspaper or seen anything on the TV, and I am being serious about that because you don't get a chance. When you are in this situation, you have got to do things quickly, you have got to put all your energy into getting a result against Burnley, and that's all I have done."
However, asked further if it was his dream job, Carver replied: "Of course it is. I'm a local lad and it's a dream job for anybody, but the manager's still the manager at the moment."
