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aye, probably went there with instructions to get a clause to sign him at the end of the season. Thought he would be clever and didn't agree one with the thought of getting him on the cheap instead and impressing mike with his clever work.

really been practising with his left foot over the summer

tiote back to basics when he came on was good to see. no hollywood balls, and even a shot on target.

surprisingly good in the air - moreso than the cb's

I can remember, even under SBR, not being bothered when we went a goal down (especially at home) because I just knew we would score at least 2. And most of the time we would.

good morning from pards Alan Pardew: Big signing for Newcastle United would have needed overdraft usage 13 Sep 2013 07:07 For the Magpies to have secured a "marquee signing" it would have taken them into the red, according to NUFC boss Share on printShare on email Pardew says he's happy with strikers, but feels "vulnerable to injury" Alan Pardew admitted that had Newcastle pulled off a “marquee signing” during the window the transaction would have taken the Magpies into their overdraft facility. United fans are still far from happy they didn’t see a permanent signing made during the summer as bids for Bafetimbi Gomis and a loan move for Demba Ba fell through. United were also linked with Florian Thauvin, who eventually signed for Marseille after a mooted £10m bid from the Magpies. And reacting to criticism from fans – who have questioned why the £60m TV money hasn’t been dipped into – Pardew told the Chronicle: “They all expected a marquee signing, although I have to say a marquee signing would have taken us into our overdraft facility. “That was something we really didn’t want to do, although there were two or three bids that went in that would have definitely put us in that. “There was the will there, but I don’t wantto say any more thanthat. “I don’t want to affect our fans any more than they’ve been affected. “They’re disappointed, but we still carry a team that can have a successful season.” Gomis’ agent revealed yesterday that he could make a cut-price move for less than £2.5m in January from Lyon. And while Pardew also revealed a bid for an English player also fell through towards the end of the window, when asked about future transfer plans, he said: “I don’t want to give our fans any kind of discussion about January. “We’ll get plenty of time to talk about that leading up to it.” Director of football Joe Kinnear – who has yet to offer any explanation for a disastrous transfer window – has stayed tight-lipped about recruitment despite making boastful claims earlier this summer. Pardew says he was disappointed not to sign a new striker and said: “Our fans wanted a marquee signing. “I stated that I wanted another offensive player. “Another striker would have helped us. “I’m really happy with my strikers, but I’m a bit vulnerable to injury. “But everybody has trained, and we’ve got a great team to turn up at Villa. “We’ve got a really good side, and a good bench, a bench which can affect the game. “I don’t want to talk about that. But for the mood of everybody, it’s been tough.”

set your aims a little lower to start with.....simon bird?

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ten-questions-want-ask-newcastle-5835966 The Chronicle has inside put ten questions to the man who holds the hopes and dreams of ever Toon fan in the palm of his hand Share on printShare on email Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Mike Ashley wasn’t available for interview yesterday. Meanwhile, in other news, night followed day, followed night The man who owns Newcastle United doesn’t do interviews. He doesn’t even have a right-hand man at the club any more to act as his mouthpiece. Football journalists whose job it is to cover the club – and this newspaper in particular – are constantly criticised by supporters for not asking the hard questions. They, quite rightly, demand to know what is going on at St James’ Park during these troubled and peculiar times. But who do we ask these hard question to? Alan Pardew, with the best will in the world, is only the manager. He can’t say what his boss is thinking. As for Joe Kinnear, the director of football, he can’t sign anyone or pronounce the name of existing players, never mind anything else. No the buck – and he has almost three billion of them – stops with Ashley and we can’t get near him. But after the summer transfer window closed without the club spending a single penny on a permanent player – which might be a first for any Premier League outfit – we need to ask the owner these hard questions. Even if there is little chance of receiving any sort of reply. 1. Do you actual like owning Newcastle United? Let’s start with an obvious one. It seems to me that you bought the club on a whim because it looked like jolly larks having your own Premier League team. You drank pints with the fans, stood with the travelling support and enjoyed the adulation for a bit. But then it went sour. Bad decisions, bad results and an awful relegation. You wanted to sell and nobody wanted to take the club off your hands. We are now a few years down the line and there is not the smallest hint that you take any enjoyment of being the owner of Newcastle United. You seem unwilling or at least incapable of strengthening the playing squad, which leads everyone to think that the club is a tool to promote Sports Direct and nothing else. Do you feel as if it’s a burden. You are a fantastically rich man. It’s not like being left with a mortgage you can’t pay. You can walk away any time you like. Just a thought. 2. Are you actively trying to sell the club? If so, do you have an asking price or anyone lined up as a potential buyer? From the outside looking in, that would appear to be your plan. Can I even go one further and enquire whether Rangers is next on your list? That is certainly the strong rumour doing the rounds in Glasgow since you became the third biggest shareholder. It would make a lot of sense because Rangers might be in the grubber now, but they will recover soon enough and that club has the potential to be a real cash cow. Will you only walk away if the next man is willing to pay over the odds? 3. Please explain Joe Kinnear. Honestly, at least try. If I were being a cynic, I would suggest your friend is only there to put pressure on the manager. His job was to sign players. He didn’t sign anyone – Loic Remy can hardly be described as his bit of business. In any other walk of life, this would surely mean at worst a sacking, or at best a severe reprimanding. As a successful and hard-nosed businessman, it seems odd to keep on a man who has quite obviously failed. Or is Kinnear there for another reason? 4. Are you deliberately ostracising Alan Pardew? Because that’s what it looks like. In public he has spoken time and again about getting players over the line. He has been left high and dry. Is this a tactic or incompetence on the part of Kinnear? Is the manager being forced out the door? If the DoF has done nothing wrong, then you are obviously happy with going into the rest of the season with a weaker squad than ended last season. Managers gets sacked for bad results. If Pardew goes, is Kinnear his replacement? 5. Do you care whether Newcastle win or lose? Does a result, good or bad, affect your mood? This is important. The fans live and breath this great football club. They are suffering right now. Did you sleep after last season’s derby defeat? Did you go in a bad mood after the humiliation at Liverpool? Or does it not make a blind bit of difference? 6. Why do you believe Newcastle supporters don’t deserve to know what you are up to? Rich men are not known for their empathy, this is true. But there are 50,000 people who pay good money, many of them who can ill afford it, into your coffers every home match. If they all disappeared, Newcastle United would be nothing. Surely to goodness they should be kept informed. I don’t mean revealing every minute of every meeting, but a bit of transparency would not hurt. Unless you have something to hide, of course. 7. What’s that website all about? You know, the Sports Direct News one that had Manchester United buying Yohan Cabaye on Monday night, and Newcastle in for Wayne Rooney a while back. It does you no service at all. It’s an embarrassment, in case you didn’t know. Shut it down. 8. Is annoying the supporters something you enjoy? Wonga, changing the name of the stadium, the appointment of Kinnear. Surely you knew what the reaction would be when those decisions became public. Many fans believe these are deliberate ploys to anger them. If that’s the case, it’s working. If not, then who told you that any of these choices were good ones? 9. Have we got this all wrong and in fact there is a grand plan? The thing is, Mike, nobody knows what you are up to. We can guess, but that’s really all it is, a guess. And when there is a vacuum, it tends to be filled with nagativity. Maybe you can see the way English football is going. Perhaps you have worked out that the bubble is about to burst and the other rich owners are getting bored and will leave the clubs with huge debts. And then Newcastle rise to the top. Do you know something we don’t? Is the club strategy in place because all your competitors are teetering on the brink? If so, well played. If not, please see points one to eight. 10. And finally, how much do you pay the North East Press pack to write nice things about you? This is one straight from the websites and social media. The fans would like to know what it costs to ensure us lot don’t criticise you, although I personally can’t remember one piece appearing that has praised you. If you could come out and admit that, in fact, you have no influence on the written media at least, then that would be nice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10284585/Alan-Pardew-tries-to-quell-Newcastle-United-fans-anger-with-defence-of-lack-of-transfer-activity.html Alan Pardew has tried to protect the Mike Ashley regime from the fury of disgruntled fans after Newcastle United released a statement in his name in which he defended the club’s lack of transfer activity. Alan Pardew tries to quell Newcastle fans' anger with defence of lack of transfer activity Making a statement: Alan Pardew insisted fans should be approaching the season in a “positive, optimistic frame of mind” even though Newcastle were the only top-flight club not to make a permanent signing this summer Photo: ACTION IMAGES By Luke Edwards 10:00PM BST 03 Sep 2013 CommentsComment In what appears to be a move designed to nullify rising anger on Tyneside, Pardew insisted fans should be approaching the season in a “positive, optimistic frame of mind” even though Newcastle United were the only top-flight club not to make a permanent signing this summer. Pardew, who had repeatedly said he would be “disappointed” if no signings were made other than Loïc Rémy on loan from Queens Park Rangers, insisted on Tuesday he had a “strong squad” and that they had done their business in January when they signed five players from France. “We are delighted to have brought Loïc Rémy to the club in this window and we believe he will form an exciting and effective partnership with Papiss Cissé,” said Pardew, in a statement released on the club’s official website. “Joe has worked hard on numerous targets, particularly an additional offensive player. However, some of the options that were available within our financial means were not as good as the players we already had and there is no point bringing in new players unless they can improve us and take us forward. “We did the majority of our business in the January window, signing five excellent first-team players. With the strong squad we have we should all approach the season in a positive, optimistic frame of mind.” Related Articles Newcastle fans fume at Kinnear 02 Sep 2013 How did your team fare this summer? 03 Sep 2013 Transfer deadline day: as it happened 02 Sep 2013 Premier League: Transfer Talk 26 Aug 2013 Remy bailed over rape allegations 02 Sep 2013 Cabaye's return improves Newcastle's midfield 01 Sep 2013 Sponsored Club Wembley: a stadium experience that’s hard to match The statement contradicts what Pardew has consistently said over the summer. Newcastle were looking for a centre-back, a left winger and two strikers when Joe Kinnear was appointed director of football in June, but only Rémy arrived. Newcastle fans are furious about what they perceive as a lack of ambition, and a small squad that flirted dangerously with relegation last season remains vulnerable to injuries and a lack of competition for places. The attempts to plead poverty and bemoan a lack of “financial means” also do not sit well with supporters who heard repeatedly from former managing director Derek Llambias how well the business was doing. Since then, Newcastle have announced their biggest shirt sponsorship deal with Wonga and benefited from a new lucrative Premier League television deal, but none of that money appears to have gone back into improving the team. Although Ashley has been accused of not wanting to spend, Telegraph Sport understands there was money available, but there was often a lack of agreement between Kinnear, Pardew and chief scout Graham Carr about how best to use it. When the trio did agree on targets, Kinnear failed to make the deals happen. Lyon striker Bafétimbi Gomis, Lille’s Florian Thauvin, Chelsea’s Demba Ba, Norwich City’s Anthony Pilkington, Blackpool’s Thomas Ince and Wigan’s James McCarthy were all targeted, but none signed.

you would hope this would mean the end of any more pathetic "alan pardew's black and white army" or "pardew gizza wave" chants. he should get as much stick as JFK or Ashley. he could have just kept his mouth shut.

pardew may be clueless when it comes to reading whats happening on the pitch, but he does love his stats. so maybe anita is going to be first choice for a while.

have a spare ticket if anyone wants to go for nowt (or the price of a pint). let me know before 1.30.

much better at left back

For such a big lad, Vuckic really lacks any physicality - weak as piss.

would rather moses on loan

jenas headed wide at the gallowgate end when it would have been easier to score

people give him credit for his interest-free loans, when the fact is the money he would have to pay for his advertising would exceed any interest he would be owed.

http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/alan-pardew-fights-his-corner-with-the-press-not-to-be-missed Any Yohan Cabaye update, has he been fined or has he trained? No update I’ve got to give you, no. So no further offers? No. People will look at Wayne Rooney working his socks off for Manchester United and then do a comparison with Yohan and it looks a little stark? That’s your opinion, we have our own opinions but we’ll keep them to ourselves for the moment. What is your ideal end to this saga? He stays or he goes. Does it vindicate the club’s policy of long-term contracts for key players because you are in a strong position? We are…and the bottom line is if a world class player moves on, then it has to be world class money. Whose decision was it to keep him out of the West Ham game? You can ask but you ain’t getting an answer. How much more difficult does it make your job when one of your best players…? (Anticipates and answers before finishing question) The position we are in has been forced upon us in a way, but the timing of it hasn’t helped with the Manchester City game. It is an ongoing situation and like a lot of players this transfer window there are a lot of problems while it is open. Where we are right now, I don’t want to really say any more. He won’t play tomorrow night (Morecambe) for sure, then we will see what happens on Saturday. I can understand why you don’t want to talk about it but it is the one thing all of the fans are talking about? Absolutely and I have got no problem in addressing them but the answer isn’t as simple as a yes or no. The answer is he is either going to be sold and we are going to have to replace him in this window, or he is going to stay. Both situations, I as manager have to protect him and protect this football club, more importantly. The fans are saying that this is not a way for a professional to behave? Listen, the opinions that our fans have, I respect and that is their opinions – but I don’t want to comment any further. I think I have answered enough questions on him now and I think we should move on.

honestly what is the point of publishing that story. the local press is getting worse. I know they don't have much ITK to go on, so why not concentrate on pulling apart some off the ridiculous quotes from pardew and JFK, for example that £60m on players bollocks. They need to be expressing the importance of the game tonight and the need to play a strong team. they need to pick up on pardew's pre and post match bollocks/lies/excuses. A bit more pressure is needed on Ashley, pardew and JFK rather than leaving it to forums like this. They really need to emphasise that the fans aren't swallowing the club's lies. the regime gets far too easy a time from the local press.

no game for 2weeks after Fulham, he needs to go full strength against Morecambe - for confidence if nothing else

If Ashley and JFK were on board, with our luck, they'd still survive

whilst pards needs to be replaced, surely it shouldn't need a manager to teach a premiership player how to cross a ball or take a corner. Debuchy, for all his faults, is the only one who can put in a decent cross.

exactly. been said before, but its about time someone with a bit of bollocks interviews Pardew and actually calls him out on some of his statements.

come on then, who's gonna do the "look at me, look at me". holidaying in france and being able to read French ffs. pathetic.

its hard to fit in when you're spending the whole week practicing crossing the ball and focussing on set pieces and corners