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I see that from the tweets last night and this morning that Mark Douglas thinks Pardew has run his course.

Pardew said before the game that he was fairly confident that he would be back - that Tiote was doing the right things for a change (??) and hence his recovery was going exceptionally well. That probably means we won't see him till April.

Heard or read somewhere today that the last time we won a game without Cabaye was in 2012.

When is the Champions League place for the winner for the Europa League introduced? I would have thought that would make it more attractive despite the relatively poor income although I guess the Champion's League dropouts would take it more seriously as well if they are struggling in their own leagues.

Heard on the radio yesterday that Man Utd receive £20m per year in loan fees! If that is true, I would expect Chelsea get even more and Spurs have tons of players on loan as well so that is quite a lucrative source of revenue.

I could see Cabaye coming back to English football in a year's time if he ends up not playing very much.

John Anderson just said Remy is back for Wednesday but I thought he was still banned for one more game? Still in 8th place

They were saying on the True Faith podcast that the reason we don't have category 1 status is only because of the lack of coaches. A pretty pathetic reason. Obviously this is reserves but it just shows what a mess we are. Going the extra bit for something that could payoff big in the future just isn't worth it to Ashley. I really hope it means that he's looking to sell. The lack of success at the Academy is meant to be an a real issue for Ashley but if he really cares surely the extra investment would pay off in the longterm. There are too many people at SJP doing 2 or 3 jobs and certainly I heard that one of the reasons why we keep failing Category 1 status is because we don't have staff fulfilling a single role but multiple roles instead. If that is the case then Ashley can only blame himself for the Academy's failings. However, every thing the club does at the moment screams short-term so you have to think he is looking to sell up soon.

Just shows that despite having spent 4 years here, he learnt very little about the club and the city.

I hope that he is not seriously considering reverting to long ball after last week's disaster and that it is just the journalist's interpretation of his comments based on the last game. It is patently obvious that having signed all these "technical" players that few of them are suitable to that style.

I look forward to FIFA banning West Ham from all football. Don't they have a thing about not involving the courts in footy stuff? dunno about FIFA but every single club signs up to not before each season to the system and not to bring courts into it, frankly I'd hope the rest of the clubs would work together and throw west ham out for trying it. What do they think makes them so special that they can get away with it, every single club had had bad reffing decisions every single club has had appeals go against them when they thought it shouldn't have. None of those have decided to throw their toys out of the pram and go crying over it. Christ its not as even if it was clearly wrong, theres enough in the rules for the incident to be a red despite Flores's crying like a 4 year old girl. Apparently the FA are allowing a personal hearing tomorrow morning. Hope they don't let them off as it will send out the wrong message.

Well exactly. I can't believe that Kinnear could make a £20m decision without consulting the boss. This was raised on Twitter with Mark Douglas earlier. Mark Douglas ‏@MsiDouglas 3 hrs Resigned? #nufc sacked Kinnear over Cabaye deal. Details here: http://www.thejournal.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mike-ashley-asked-joe-kinnear-6672931 … Steph. ‏@StephNUFC 3 hrs @MsiDouglas Mark, if Ashley wasn't happy with the fee why did he give it the go ahead or was he mislead by Kinnear? Mark Douglas ‏@MsiDouglas 3 hrs @StephNUFC He has been v. hands off of late. My understanding is Joe jumped the gun on the deal - undue haste in selling him, Wesley Fucking Brown ‏@lewisinho 3 hrs @MsiDouglas @StephNUFC Cabaye said it was already in his contract that he would leave in January? Mark Douglas ‏@MsiDouglas 3 hrs @lewisinho @StephNUFC It wasn't in his contract. Think there was verbal agreement - but price had to be right Wesley Fucking Brown ‏@lewisinho 3 hrs @MsiDouglas @StephNUFC But if everything goes through the owner, then surely Ashley agreed for this fee with PSG?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2551807/Joe-Kinnear-resignation-came-worrying-fall-season-ticket-renewals-Newcastle.html This one says it down to the fall in season ticket renewals.

Someone on Twitter is saying there have been 4000 season ticket cancellations since the game.

http://blogs.thetimes.co.uk/section/the-game/107597/newcastle-are-profoundly-unsatisfactory/?shareToken=e76a4c07c746972504cb04e7980b380c Free till 6.30pm

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/newcastle-united-alan-pardew-must-3108255#.Uu_PU_l_vA1 Alan Pardew must stand up for himself at Newcastle - or risk throwing away all the good work he's done Feb 03, 2014 14:120 Comments OPINION BY SIMON BIRD The Magpies boss isn't helping himself by towing the party line at St James' Park, believes our man in the north east Alan Pardew played the corporate man and tried to put a new spin on Newcastle's failure to replace Yohan Cabaye. After the dispiriting loss to Sunderland Pardew was given the chance to vent his disappointment that a disfunctional "transfer team" were unable or unwilling to make a serious bid to land top target Clement Grenier. He answered: “I didn’t particularly say in this window, though. I said, you know, we’ve got to get players of that class, there’s no doubt about that. So don’t try and angle that for this window because I think that’s unfair on me.” That is nonsense of course. Pardew was wriggling, trying to keep owner Mike Ashley sweet. Trying not to rock the boat publicly with director of football, Joe Kinnear, whatever he does. Two days earlier he had warned: "We need to bring someone in, for sure. We can’t lose someone of his quality and not replace him. That would leave us vulnerable." Pardew must wise up to the fact that his stock will plunge with Newcastle fans, until he stops being the public apologist for the failings of the folk who employ him. He will soon lose the credit he has built up guiding Newcastle to a decent first half of the season, unless he stops being the spokesman for the incompetence of employees like Kinnear, who should be nowhere near a senior role negotiating deals. In short, Pardew should strap a pair on, forget the tap dance he does to keep Ashley and Kinnear happy with kind words and say, diplomatically, what he actually thinks. And that should be that not replacing Cabaye - just before or after he was sold - has killed Newcastle's season. Any outside chance of chasing top six, and Europa League, has been extinguished. It has left a squad shorn of its best player, with other suspensions and injuries rendering the first XI looking, at best, average. That has left the fans to stew for months on what might have been. Who on the terraces is inspired the one challenge left: can Newcastle hold on to eighth place!? Pardew must have been as desperate as any fan to see Grenier, or Remy Cabella, or both, added to his squad before the deadline. And he should say so. I've not met a manager who would argue otherwise. Football bosses know it only takes four or five bad results to tip them from security to dodgy ground. Pardew has been shafted by Kinnear and Ashley, and it is HIS managerial reputation that will suffer if Newcastle peter out and slip down the table. So why play along? Pardew is in a strong position. He is a rare example of an English manager who has proved he can guide a club into the top five on limited resources. The mistakes of last season were corrected and he could have gone close again this year if he worked for an owner who wanted to have a go within his own tight financial boundaries. Now it seem Ashley isn't content with breaking even and United "wiping its own nose" - which is a favoured phrase. It seems he wants to asset strip, make a big profit each season, and claw back his £129 million loan. Pardew would walk into the next top flight job if he was sacked. A sacking would leave Ashley searching for a new boss who may be far less compliant than Pardew has been in the last three-and-a-bit years. Pardew, as I've written before here, has an almost impossible job keeping the peace between owner, fans, Kinnear and other internal power struggles at St James' Park. But there comes a time when he has to be true to himself and take a risk treading on Ashley's ego, which is said to be fragile and sensitive for a man whose been so ruthless in retail. I have been a fan of Pardew over these last few years. He has misfortune of being the only tier of management on Tyneside who regularly speaks in public. But there really is no need for him to laud Ashley like he did for instance after Newcastle beat Chelsea. He said at the time: "That one is for Mike." He explained Mike really is a fan. And he insisted that despite suggestions to the contrary in the nasty media, that the club did have a well functioning management structure. Pass the sick bag. Having missed out on Grenier, and been left with a weakened squad for the rest of the season, surely Pardew regrets those fawning comments about the men who have left him "vulnerable"?

I wonder if Ashley would go for a foreign manager who cannot speak English and then he can stop all communication from the club!!

Perfect. That should go on a banner.

His press conferences would be interesting seeing as the club have banned him from speaking publicly because he is regarded as a PR disaster.

The same exchange is also in the Telegraph and The Guardian has used a few quotes in their match report.

OMG. I kind of know him and his family because he is a close friend of a relative. RIP

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/neil-camerons-derby-verdict-everyone-6659184 Neil Cameron's Derby Verdict: Everyone to blame for Newcastle's defeat to Sunderland 2 Feb 2014 11:07 The men in charge of Newcastle United looked bemused yesterday. It's hard to see why as Neil Cameron explains Lee Charnley, the man partly responsible for Newcastle United’s signings, wore a bemused look at the end of yesterday’s game. It was if the club secretary, the man who runs things on a daily basis, had no clue as to why his team were lucky to get zero in a 3-0 defeat by their most bitter rivals . But surely this is an easy one to figure out. Any Premier League side who has few young players coming through and goes two transfers windows without signing a permanent player, and therefore not spending any money, is asking for trouble. And trouble called in at St James’ Park yesterday with a Big T dressed in red and white, or actually yellow in his case. Running on to the park is idiotic, but you can understand the fans’ frustration. It is hard to believe that in many ways this is actually, sort of, a good season. But this is Newcastle United. Whenever things start to go well, it’s as if they automatically regress into chaos. Selling Yohan Cabaye to PSG is understandable. Not even really trying to get in a replacement, or at least having one lined up, is unforgivable. Last summer, one other striker and a midfielder should have been bought in. But the trio of Mike Ashley, Joe Kinnear and Charnley thought the squad didn’t need that, and a mostly good season seemed to back up that decision – certainly in their eyes. Then Loic Remy gets himself suspended, leaving Alan Pardew with Shola Ameobi , who hasn’t scored a league goal in over a year, Papiss Cisse , who the club want rid of, and new guy Luuk De Jong , who has had the grand total of one day’s training with his new team-mates. This is the reason why Newcastle lost yesterday. They were always only a couple of absentees away from struggling. Newcastle’s season is now officially over. It is February 2. I will defend Alan Pardew to a point. He doesn’t have much of a say in who stays or goes. So you can’t blame him for everything. His toeing of the party line is also understandable, although his first interview after he gets sacked is going to be interesting. And there are more than a few Newcastle supporters who would welcome a change of manager now. Not in the summer, but now. That’s three years Pardew has had. There has been more good than bad. But one derby win out of seven is awful. His record in the cup is deplorable. Comments such as “that win was for Mike” after the win against Chelsea don’t do him any favours in the eyes of the Toon Army. While feelings are always raw after a derby defeat, it’s hard to escape the feeling that Pardew is under real pressure. In his defence, the biggest problem is the men at the top and what they think is good enough for the football club. But the manager himself needs to take stock. I mean – what exactly was yesterday’s grand plan? Punt the ball to Shola and hope something happens. Or give it to Hatem Ben Arfa and hope he does something. And before we go on, Ben Arfa is in danger of throwing away what should be a wonderful career. He tried a run early on, it came to nothing, and it was almost as if he decided there and then not to bother any more. Steven Taylor is another who is surely fighting to save his Newcastle career. Running up to the fans and pumping your fist before a game might get something of a cheer, but they would much prefer him to win headers and not allow Jack Colback a clear shot on his left foot. Not good enough. Again.

No need to worry. Wonga are supplying clapper things and flags to help us win tomorrow.

Everyone else is buying players to try and improve. There is only so long we can get away with standing still or weakening the squad in the hope of getting away with it. The last couple of windows they have insisted they had money to spend and even put in bids (who knows if they seriously thought they would be accepted) but the fact that money has not been spent and they have then said we are saving the money for the next window only for the same situation to recur. On that basis alone, there should have been a decent amount to spend before the Cabaye sale. Then there is the saving on some serious wages with the likes of Harper from last Summer and Jonas and Cabaye with this one. Of course next Summer everyone will know we have the Cabaye money plus the TV money so the prices will increase. There is also the JFK factor and as Mark Douglas has pointed out, is he able to close a transfer deal? Douglas regularly reports that he is a serious hindrance in the club's ability to close deals and people that he has been involved with have said that he is seriously out of his depth. What will happen in the Summer when they have to buy at least 6-7 players to replace the outgoings - how will they cope with that? Pardew has said the squad will have to be rebuilt in the Summer - do the people now running the club have the ability to be able to do that. How do they think they will be able to integrate so many new players at once when so many other clubs have failed when there has been a huge turnover in players. I don't get the reluctance to spend the odd million more if you are confident that the player will make a profit for you in the long term. No-one is asking them to go crazy but their tendency to bid low fees and then to get all huffy when the selling club refuses to cave in but then expect buying clubs to pay over the odds for our players is embarrassing. I have always maintained that the longer Ashley is here, the more damaged the club will become and I think that is really starting to take hold now. The apathy from the fans should be a concern to them because that is their major asset. I have little enthusiasm for the rest of the season and I am pretty pessimistic about how it will go as well. I think it is feasible that we won't win any games in February especially with so few goals in the team at the moment and then morale can be affected which means games you would expect to win would become much harder plus what is the motivation for the players. I am not convinced we will stay in the top half of the table although relegation is not on the cards. A drop down the table could translate to several million in prize money which could have been used towards transfer fees. Other than season ticket holders who have already made the commitment, I don't see why others would pay to watch meaningless games for the rest of the season.

I think Cabaye would rather not have a decision to make this month so will be happy if no bids come in. Signings in January are often a short-term fix until they can get the big names in the Summer e.g. Chelsea with Ba last year when they were desperate for a striker. PSG want someone because one of their back-up midfielders is injured. They seem to see Cabaye as a squad player. Man Utd can't get the players they want in this window so if they do go for Cabaye now after knowing that he was looking for a move last Summer, it will look like a panic signing to see them through the rest of the season. Cabaye would get more games there but there is a strong possibility, they won't qualify for the Champions League next season and that would further affect their Summer transfer plans. If a big offer comes in then I am sure Ashley will accept it but I think Cabaye is probably hoping that one doesn't and is happy to wait until the Summer when it will be clearer what situation clubs are in.