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Alan Pardew reckons Newcastle's failure to land Loic Remy in January is partly to blame for their precarious Premier League position.

 

The France striker was set to join from Marseille only to change his mind and sign for QPR, who host Pardew's side on Sunday.

 

Rangers are already relegated despite Remy's five goals and Newcastle, who go into the weekend with a cushion of just three points on third-bottom Wigan, could yet join them in the Championship.

 

Pardew said: "The fact that we lost out on Loic Remy was a major blow to our season. We lost our main goalscorer Demba Ba to Chelsea and he was our replacement.

 

"We felt he was going to sign for us and then at the last minute, he changed his mind, and that was a particular blow to us because it's very difficult to get a striker in that window.

 

"We had to move for Moussa Sissoko, who probably we may have done at the end of the year if we had got Loic Remy, and he is not a goalscorer. He's a midfield player-cum-number 10.

 

"It's put extra pressure on us that he didn't arrive, so for that reason, I was disappointed. But I don't fear him on Sunday. We have to be good enough to cope with the qualities he has got, which are many."

 

Newcastle host Arsenal on the final day of the season, and Pardew said: It's just unfair for us to talk about Wigan, it's more about us. We have still got six points to play for - we think they are two games we can win."

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Argh God. Chalk up that as a new excuse then. Missing out on Remy. What next man? 9/11?

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Argh God. Chalk up that as a new excuse then. Missing out on Remy. What next man? 9/11?

 

Boston marathon bombs.

 

The pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre

 

tbf, we're all dead against it.

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He has used countless s**** excuses in the past but with this one he has a good point.

 

It depends on whether we would have got Sissoko, Debuchy, Gouffran, Haidara and Yanga Mbiwa as well. In fact, nah. What am I even doing entertaining it!? He's full of absolute shit man. I would sympathise if he actually endeavoured to getting the best out of Cisse's game, or anyone else's for that matter.

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I HATE the whole transfer excuse.

 

Pardew was making some horrific decisions last season and a lot more well before January. Yes we should have strengthened in the summer but even with the squad we had pre-January, a decent manager would have had us playing better football and probably far away from any relegation fears.

 

It was only when the season started going sour that Pardew started peddling this shit.

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I HATE the whole transfer excuse.

 

Pardew was making some horrific decisions last season and a lot more well before January. Yes we should have strengthened in the summer but even with the squad we had pre-January, a decent manager would have had us playing better football and probably far away from any relegation fears.

 

It was only when the season started going sour that Pardew started peddling this s***.

 

Its smacks of coaching ineptitude, funnily enough only the shit ones come out and complain about transfers when things go south.

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I HATE the whole transfer excuse.

 

Pardew was making some horrific decisions last season and a lot more well before January. Yes we should have strengthened in the summer but even with the squad we had pre-January, a decent manager would have had us playing better football and probably far away from any relegation fears.

 

It was only when the season started going sour that Pardew started peddling this s***.

 

Its smacks of coaching ineptitude, funnily enough only the shit ones come out and complain about transfers when things go south.

 

It's the excuse all bad managers come out with, need signings in next transfer window etc.

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Hopefully is gearing up for a sacking, you'd think he wouldn't be saying stuff like that if he's trying to stay on Ashley's good side?

 

He said the other day that he'd not spoke to Ashley since the Liverpool result, so I have no doubt that he's just fishing for support.

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This s*** should NOT be coming out right before our make or break game. FFS.

 

Agreed.

 

All he's said is he may be sacked, he may not be.  No more than we already knew tbf :lol:

 

It's not really going to rock the boat.

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