Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley will not get rid of Steve Bruce, says Peterborough United director of football Barry Fry.

At one point, it did look like Bruce's job was in real danger, with The Telegraph reporting at the start of April that relegation to the Championship would have possibly forced Ashley's hand.

In the end, though, Bruce was obviously able to keep Newcastle up after picking up some brilliant results in the final stretch of the campaign.

And now, unless the Tyneside club are taken over, Fry cannot see Bruce going anywhere. Speaking about what the future could hold for Newcastle, the former manager told FFC:

"I think if Mike Ashley's in charge, he'll leave Steve in charge, no doubt about that whatsoever.

"If somebody else comes in and buys the club off him, then they've got their own ideas, and normally if a consortium takes over a club, they've got their own manager, their own management team all set up before they take over."

Newcastle's future as a football club has been up in the air, or more so, since the attempted takeover by a Saudi Arabian-backed consortium, which includes Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF, PCP Capital Partners and Reuben Brothers. What happens next is now anyone's guess.