Newcastle United cult hero Tino Asprilla has taken aim at Sir Kenny Dalglish.

Asprilla branded former Magpies boss Dalglish as “the man who destroyed the Entertainers".

He told the Evening Chronicle, “When Kenny Dalglish arrived at Newcastle I had heard so many good things about him.

“And I could not wait to play for him.

“Anyone who achieves so much as a player like he did you would naturally expect him to do well as a manager.

“This was not the case. Within months he had the team playing a style that was alien to most of us and he started to sell some of our star players.

“The stars like Ginola, Ferdinand and Beardsley were moved on.

“It was a team that could have gone on to win the league, having come so close in 1996.

“But instead we were broken up and the dream faded. I was sad to see Dalglish destroy the team."