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Most newcastle fans will blame him sadly and totally overlook the factors in him wanting to leave.

Pardew saying their is money to spend: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/pardew-i-will-splash-cash-even-if-cabaye-stays-1-5978685

You find it insane to suggest Pardew "would do better" (your words) if he could buy his own players, really? Last summer he asked for a full back and got a dimunitive defensive midfield player unsuited to his preferred style of play and who he clearly still doesn't rate or trust. This summer he has asked for Premiership experience and has mentioned specific names: Carroll, Bent and Downing. All players who were available and have transfered from one club to another. The Bent saga specifically suggest we were never seriously in for him. The club is deliberately ignoring his requests and going for what they perceive as bargains regardless of position and fit to the manager's style of play. Under these conditions, how can you be surprised the manager fails? If it was the other way around, i.e. we had Laudrup as manager but only bought Stoke type players, I'm pretty certain you would see the point I'm trying to make.. He's got his fullback in January and he's made him into one of the worst full backs in the premier league. The facts just don't bear it out sadly the man is full of shit.

Exactly with the squad we have I'd expect a top 10 finish personally

It's like last seasons dross, a season long dross is not his fault at all. He must Wine and dine Douglas, Edwards and Ryder every night. Well i don't really remember one journo or tv pundit saying it as it is. And surely the way we play football is what their supposed to be talking about. Yea, I'm quite shocked how little press attention our terrible football gets actually. I almost pissed myself when I heard Neville and Carragher say we were going to "go for it" on monday night.

It's like last seasons dross, a season long dross is not his fault at all. He must Wine and dine Douglas, Edwards and Ryder every night.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock.

Luke Edwards on Talksport http://talksport.com/football/edwards-newcastle%E2%80%99s-lack-transfer-activity-13082256836? According to him Pardew can't be judged unless he gets the players he asks for

Are these the quotes which are meant to get us all in a twist? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2400221/Yohan-Cabaye-stay-Newcastle-unless-receive-25m-says-Alan-Pardew.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Not Shields Gazette Thank you kindly sir

Are these the quotes which are meant to get us all in a twist?

Top notch thread is this OP

Know nowt about him but doesnt seem to get many assists? Just 5/6 in the league from his last 90+ games. We could do with some creativity, we already have a strong finisher we cant get near the ball. Something we are seriously lacking, is a goal threat down the left. Jonas is so poor attacking wise, i'm certain a lot of managers will have a decent RB who they will know will be able to deal with him easily. It wasn't that long ago Jonas and Enrique were our primary force going forward, making our left side very dangerous. That was more Enrique being able to get forward overlapping Jonas who would drop back in. With Santon tending to cut in, we have nothing out wide on the left at all. Call me old fashinoned by i want my LW/LM to be more dangerous and advanced than our full back. The FB supporting him and sometimes getting more forward, but mainly helping the LW/LM attack. Old Fashioned In my eyes you can approach the solution in two viable ways: The first is what Bimpy said. The second is to have an attacking wingback ala Roberto Carlos and someone cutting in from the left trying to score and create goals. We take the not viable third option which is playing with a fullback who cuts inside and a defensive winger who offers nothing going forward and not much from a defensive aspect ie he can't tackle, isn't good positionally, doesn't read the game well etc.

Proof is in the pudding we will see come Saturday

It all comes down to one unified group of the different factions to come together and organize a proper game plan and promote a way of starving Ashley of his investment but as the Labour club meet proved it changed nowt . Yes as a fan base we lack unity and can't agree on collective action. A lot of people believe Ashley did us a massive favour but even if you believe this how long can you continue to bow down to this school of thought and continue to show gratitude when he continually takes the piss?

If Cabaye is "ready" to play and Santon is fit I'd love to see that lineup but I doubt either will make the cut. That's a nice line up, far too attacking for Pardew i would think though. Your spot on mate its far too attacking because Pardew only knows how to contain the opposition by sitting back and not getting tight. I watched villa last night and they got it right pressed aggressively and got tight giving Chelsea a hard Time to break them down. Yeah, i was watching the Spurs game thinking, if we had took the lead we would have sat back and made them look good. Spurs just buried them. I wonder what Pardew thinks when he's watching other games, he's not daft and he must enjoy watching teams play well. Why he then gets us to play the way he does just baffles me. Also managers watch games back on video later. Does enjoy watching us play the way we do when he's not on the touchline when it can appear different. How can he just continue with the same stuff he himself must see as poor. Really enjoy your posts bimpy I've no idea what Pardew thinks to be honest. Given the things he says though maybe its a case of negative thoughts = negative actions?

Lol im sure he will have another excuse waiting in the wings. You know what folks? I think we've finally found something Alan is good at Tbf to him, whenever he's asked about transfers he tries to say something, as we've seen it's utter nonsense. I still dont know why he just doesn't say, ask Joe. Then leave it at that. Because Joe says the same things as Pardew 3 in by Friday and we are going go sign 3 strikers. Pardew just does a good PR job by talking about we are still in the market biding our time because he knows that if he speaks honestly and talks frankly about our business being done their will be a rebellion and a mini boycott

If Cabaye is "ready" to play and Santon is fit I'd love to see that lineup but I doubt either will make the cut. That's a nice line up, far too attacking for Pardew i would think though. Your spot on mate its far too attacking because Pardew only knows how to contain the opposition by sitting back and not getting tight. I watched villa last night and they got it right pressed aggressively and got tight giving Chelsea a hard Time to break them down.

If Cabaye is "ready" to play and Santon is fit I'd love to see that lineup but I doubt either will make the cut. Cabaye is fine it's Pardew doing the flapping of the gums. As for santon I don't know but I'd happily see Dummett pick up from where he left off.

I like Chelsea and mourinho personally. It's nice to see ambition and positivity

Does Dan gosling count as a new signing?

Lol im sure he will have another excuse waiting in the wings. You know what folks? I think we've finally found something Alan is good at

Not if you already have Oscar, Hazard, Willian, De Bryune and Schürrle. But Mata is arguably the best of them. I would argue the same. But who know If I were Arsenal I'd be throwing some Money Chelseas way for Mata. Possibly Real Madrid too if they sell Benzema and Di Maria.

I think he was sold a different vision that what he's seeing though. I bet he was promised signings and progression on the pitch, not the tight fisted nonsense we've had. Doesn't excuse not playing mind. This is exactly why Jose Enrique left. When we signed him we told him we'd be challenging to play Champions League football. Instead we got relegated

Under current management? We probably are. Its just limiting expectations isnt it. If he mentions the potential for Cabaye to be off 7 times during the window & someone finally bids as a fanbase we're more accepting of it due to the expectation in comparison to it being a shock. Ashley wants his money back but he also wants his asset to keep a good status so he can get a good price in future, so we buy decent players for cheap, increase their status over here, sell them for big amounts, then reinvest part of the cash in similar replacements who he thinks can follow the same pattern. Hopeful outcome being we always do decently & he always makes a profit on who we bring in. All he needs then is a manager who will buy into letting his better players go, whilst also trying to get supporters to do the same. By having such a poor manager we don't really show this though. Clubs such as Porto and Lyon have the exact same strategy but they manage to entertain their fans and compete at the same time. Last year we didnt nope, id imagine Pardew has a limited period of time to prove he can keep doing this while also keeping Newcastle's performances close to the season before. Ashley needs our players to do well for him to see any profit on them, so it doesnt make any sense for him to try to purposely limit our ability. Obviously though he needs managers who are ok with the model, losing your best players can affect how you look as a manager & your own career. Keegan certainly wasnt willing to accept it when Milner was moved on etc. Plus im not sure he trusts his own judgement of what a good manager is anyway, he just gets close contacts in in recent times. Keegan was too emotional bless and out of touch the second time round sadly. I hope your right Jayson because in the current footballing climate the only way to be self sufficient is to adopt a model like Porto's. I think people tend to overplay the Kinnear/Ashley to be honest. If you look at continental managers they all have DOF's/Sporting directors who buy players on their behalf because these people are meant to be offer more longevity than your average player or manager. And in terms of Ashley he pays wages and he pays them on time. He's also pretty famous for rewarding good performance too so I'm sure his contracts will be incentive based but I'm sure if goals are hit they will be rewarded and rewarded generously dare i say. I guess we'll have to wait and see if we are struggling and it comes to christmas time and Pardew is still in charge then I think we've got to assume their is more to it.

Under current management? We probably are. Its just limiting expectations isnt it. If he mentions the potential for Cabaye to be off 7 times during the window & someone finally bids as a fanbase we're more accepting of it due to the expectation in comparison to it being a shock. Ashley wants his money back but he also wants his asset to keep a good status so he can get a good price in future, so we buy decent players for cheap, increase their status over here, sell them for big amounts, then reinvest part of the cash in similar replacements who he thinks can follow the same pattern. Hopeful outcome being we always do decently & he always makes a profit on who we bring in. All he needs then is a manager who will buy into letting his better players go, whilst also trying to get supporters to do the same. By having such a poor manager we don't really show this though. Clubs such as Porto and Lyon have the exact same strategy but they manage to entertain their fans and compete at the same time.