I don't think that's a club thing, that's a manager thing. Pardew in this case just completely ignores Colo's flaws, yet highlights those of others which are not as bad. Managers have favourites, managers like Mourinho/Ferguson/Pep do, thing with them though is they win things giving them the right to do it, and the ammo to back it up.
Pardew on the other hand has a string of defeats as his ammo, the idiot.
It goes way further than Pardew, this insistence on maximising assets and financial resources to the team's detriment.
We are only going to make a loss on Mapou which makes this all the more idiotic