Jump to content
Newcastle-Online

Alan Pardew

Dave

by Dave
in Football

 Share

Recommended Posts

AyeDubbleYoo

AyeDubbleYoo

Posted
Posted

 

I'm not sure why you're trying to point score on this, but there is a considerable gap between taking positives from keeping the core together while having sympathy with the notion of sticking to our guns on valuations, and being actually happy at where our ambition left us at the end of the window.

 

I could see us being ok, even justifiably better than the previous season (barring a run of injuries or loss of form obviously :lol:), but we had all hoped for more.

 

I have a good deal more sympathy for Pardew than Ashley currently for that very reason, even more so when I see knackers on here rounding on him for appearing positive about the transfers at the time.

 

Exactly, I've been arguing especially the first bit for months.

Link to post
Share on other sites
TheGuv

TheGuv

Posted
Posted

Kinnear :lol: nothing will ever be as bad as having that utter cretin as our manager.

 

He manged our club :facepalm:

 

 

 

JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?

 

SB Me.

 

JK You're a cunt.

 

SB Thank you.

 

JK Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order. Absolutely fucking out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can fuck off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that fucking crap. No fucking way, lies. Fuck, you're saying I turned up and they [Newcastle's players] fucked off.

 

SB No Joe, have you read it, it doesn't actually say that. Have you read it?

 

JK I've fucking read it, I've read it.

 

SB It doesn't say that. Have you read it?

 

JK You are trying to fucking undermine my position already, you cunts.

 

SB Have you read it, it doesn't say that. I knew you knew they were having a day off.

 

JK Fuck off. Fuck off. It's your last fucking chance.

 

SB You read the copy? It doesn't say that you didn't know.

 

JK What about the headline, you think that's a good headline?

 

SB I didn't write the headline, you read the copy.

 

JK fuck off ya bastards! fucking negative the pair of ya! fucking cunts!

 

SB So if I get a new job next week would I take the first day off? No I wouldn't. If I get a new job should I call my boss and tell him I am taking the first day off?

 

JK It is none of your fucking business. What the fuck are you going to do? You ain't got the balls to be a fucking manager. Fucking day off. Do I want your opinion. Do I have to listen to you?

 

SB No, you can listen to who you want.

 

JK I had a 24-hour meeting with the entire staff.

 

SB Joe, you are only here six weeks, you could have done that on Sunday, or Saturday night.

 

JK No, no, no. I didn't want to do it. I had some other things to do.

 

SB What? More important things?

 

JK What are you? My personal secretary? Fuck off.

 

SB You could have done the meeting Saturday night or Sunday. You could have had them watching videos, you could have organised them.

 

JK I was meeting the fucking chairman the owner, everyone else. Talking about things.

 

SB It is a valid point that was made in there. A valid point.

 

JK I can't trust any of you.

 

Niall Hickman Joe, no one could believe that on your first day at your new club, the first-team players were not in. No one could believe it in town. Your first day in the office.

 

JK My first day was with the coaches. I made the decision that I wanted to get as much information out of them.

 

NH But why Monday, no one could believe it?

 

JK I'm not going to tell you anything. I don't understand where you are coming from. You are delighted that Newcastle are getting beat and are in the state they are? Delighted, are you?

 

NH Certainly not. No one wants to see them get beaten, why would we?

 

JK I have done it before. It is going to my fucking lawyers. So are about three others. If they can find something in it that is a court case it is going to court. I am not fucking about. I don't talk to fucking anybody. It is raking up stories. You are fucking so fucking slimy you are raking up players that I got rid of. Players that I had fallen out with. You are not asking Robbie Earle, because he is sensible. You are not asking Warren Barton? No. Because he is fucking sensible. Anyone who had played for me for 10 years at any level ... [but] you will find some cunt that ...

 

Other journalist How long is your contract for Joe?

 

JK None of your business.

 

SB Well it is actually, because we cover the club. The club say you are here to the end of October, then you say six to eight games which would take it to the end of November. We are trying to clarify these issues. We are getting no straight answers from anyone. How long are you here for. It is a dead simple question. And you don't know ...

 

JK I was told the length of contract. Then I was told that possibly the club could be sold in that time. That is as far as I know. That's it finished. I don't know anything else. But I have been ridiculed. He's trying to fucking hide, he's trying to do this or that.

 

There follows an exchange regarding the circumstances under which Kinnear had met the owner Mike Ashley and executive director (football) Dennis Wise.

 

Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun) We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people cunts?

 

JK Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.

 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Guest firetotheworks

Guest firetotheworks

Posted
Posted

After calming down I'm a little bit more optimistic today. We weren't at our best by any stretch, but the formation, movement and effort was there. Hopefully that's seen by Pardew as a start and not a failed 433 experiment.

Link to post
Share on other sites
GuyP

GuyP

Posted
Posted

I thought we were much better against Stoke compared to West Brom and West Ham at home. Anita's role in particular interested me. There goal was a sickener and the 2nd was an aftershock from the first one...

 

In isolation it wouldnt be that bad but atleast this time we got a performance if not points...recently, we have had neither (though points would be nice :) )

Link to post
Share on other sites
Interpolic

Interpolic

Posted
Posted

Our principles always end up with us spending next to nothing every transfer window, except when we had £35 million to spend and we spent moderately. It's just such a bloody coincidence!

 

Nobody's ever said we aren't trying to get bargains.

 

Think you've missed my point, I'm yet to see the evidence that we'd buy lots of little bargains if they were available, the main focus seems to be investing the square root of fuck-all in terms of net spend. The purple players bollocks backed that up.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Guest firetotheworks

Guest firetotheworks

Posted
Posted

Kinnear :lol: nothing will ever be as bad as having that utter cretin as our manager.

 

Kinnear as boss was like a movie that's so bad it's rather entertaining.

 

Ironically funny. Definitely.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Ikon

Ikon

Posted
Posted
Pardew believes he has Toon board backing despite being close to unwanted record.

 

 

Alan Pardew has got the backing from the Newcastle United boardroom to turn things around as he bids to avoid setting an unwanted record on Monday night.

If Wigan leave St James’ Park with all three points then Pardew will have become the first Newcastle boss to suffer five Premier League defeats in a row.

But a frustrated Pardew is confident the encouragement he has from owner Mike Ashley and managing director Derek Llambias can help bring the winning feeling back to Tyneside.

Backing: Alan Pardew said he thinks the board have supported him

  The Newcastle boss, whose side sit just two points above the bottom three, said: ‘The word from the boardroom is concern. We want to get going again and obviously to do well. They’ve given me massive support this week in trying to help me get the result I want, almost asking me what can they do for me?

‘At the minute there’s not much they can do for me if truth be known. Little things here and there we talked about could help but they’ve been very forthcoming in that.’

Pardew is expecting to dip in to the transfer market when the window opens next month but a string of injuries to key players means he is not yet sure what areas of his squad needs strengthening the most.

He will welcome striker Shola Ameobi back to his bench tonight after groin trouble. The likes of Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye and Steven Taylor headline a long list of absentees.

Pardew, who only signed an eight-year contract in September, said: ‘Unfortunately for us we’ve had a real turn of events in terms of injuries.

Assistance: Papiss Cisse could help Pardew avoid the record

'I can’t think of a Premier League team in the last couple of years that has suffered as badly as we have in terms of key players. You can almost look in every position.

‘People are asking me about the window and what am I going to do but you could argue we’re weak in every position through injury. In my view the January window isn’t something we can focus on at the minute in terms of a target.

‘We have to keep our eye on every position and make sure that in January we react to who we get back because one or two will come back, for sure.’

Link to post
Share on other sites
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...