Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan has no doubts his Geordie manager Steve Bruce will NOT quit the club for Newcastle United.

"Steve knows he could go to Newcastle. But would he go? No chance," said Whelan. "I don't think you will ever get Steve going to a club that is run the way Mike Ashley runs it.

"(Mike) Ashley has no class whatsoever. The minute he arrived there and turned up in the boardroom in a replica shirt and jeans and a pair of trainers, the club was gone. All the dignity was gone."

Bruce turned down the chance to manage Newcastle when he was at Birmingham and Whelan believes he will only lose his manager to Manchester United.

He added: "When Sir Alex decides to hang up his boots, I don't think there is any doubt where they will come."