Just a week after signing Newcastle, the Premier League club's new owners have sacked coach Steve Bruce.
Thanks to the mediocre start of the season - the Magpies are penultimate in the standings, still winless, with three points after eight days - the position of the English coach had been uncertain for some time now.
And this morning, after the home defeat in the last weekend, the formalization of the exemption arrived.
The shortlist of potential candidates for the succession is numerous, from Frank Lampard to Roberto Martinez, while Antonio Conte, whose name had recently been linked to Newcastle, seems to have already slipped away.