Mick Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9178910/premier-league-alan-pardew-admits-newcastle-stars-playing-for-future Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has admitted some of his squad are playing for their futures with the club over the remaining 12 games of this season. After a promising first half of the campaign, Newcastle have stalled in recent weeks with three successive defeats causing them to lose to touch with the top six. The downturn in form has coincided with the sale of Yohan Cabaye to Paris St Germain during the transfer window last month and Pardew has claimed he will be looking to bring in four players in the summer. And the Magpies boss says there are question marks hanging over members of his current squad, including the likes of Hatem Ben Arfa, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan and January loan signing Luuk de Jong. Asked if some were playing for their future, Pardew replied: "Yes, I think some are. "Others not so, but I am still looking for a level of performance and consistency that will maybe get them into a World Cup squad and make sure they are a regular next season at this football club." Pardew's pressing concern, though, is to arrest the slump in form that has seen United pick up just one point from the last four games and concede 10 goals without reply in the last three. In their last match, Newcastle were hammered 4-0 at St James' Park by in-form Tottenham and Pardew has made it clear to his players the manner of the loss was unacceptable. "I can accept defeat, I have no problem with that, but there are ways and means to get a defeat. "That wasn't the way or the means to get a defeat at this football club and I won't accept it. "I just thought it was important to remind players of the responsibility they have, no matter how comfortable we are in the league, that there's a certain standard at this football club that we expect, and we didn't reach that standard by any stretch of the imagination. "I made it plainly clear that I won't stand for it. That will be reflected in the selection of the team, and hopefully in the result." They host Aston Villa on Sunday and Pardew is keen to claim a win that would take them to 40 points. "I would like to really get that out of the way on Sunday and hopefully we can," said Pardew. "I wouldn't say we are very comfortable, but we are comfortable." Dunno about anyone else, but I'm really looking forward to the team easing off after we reach 40 points. What a load of bollocks, the hammerings started after the loss of Cabaye whose last 2 games for us were defeats. The press are protecting him as usual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Nowt wrong with what he's saying in that line. For a change. It looks as though he thinks a defeat is a result. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 He's saying that if you're going to get beat, don't let it be like that. Come on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 He's saying that if you're going to get beat, don't let it be like that. Come on. Let me twist the knife Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 There's plenty enough effluent comes out of his gob without picking on the reasonable bits too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Pardew apologist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 He hasn't phrased it well as usual but that's because he can barely speak English. Pardew, not Stifler. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 As a Newcastle manager I would give him a 6 out of 10. Other than KK and Robson, all other managers are sub 5. I've supported him, but I think he has lost it. Key to success is getting rid before the downturn has gone too far. The downturn has started, and I wouldn't want Pardew to be starting the new season as our manager any more. Don't hate him, but his time is up. He's the worst I've ever seen at NUFC, by some distance. Roeder was a lot better than this guy, and you could argue he was working with a considerably weaker (or limited) squad. He did fantastic to take us to the FA Cup 1/4's and finish 7th in his interim season, but then struggled the next season as we finished 14th (I think) after the bank had dried up for Freddie. In that season we drew with Arsenal away, beat Liverpool at home, and got that remarkable draw at home to Man Utd with a team full of bairns. We also reached the UEFA Cup 1/4's, and tried to play decent football whenever possible. We had some horrendous matches too, I won't glorify the man; Charlton, Sheff Utd, Blackburn at home being particularly poignant. But he did beat the mackems......4-1. Then the likes of Hughton; installed a fantastic attitude, humility, and spirit into the club. He got us promoted, forged a very effective system for the players at his disposal and was successful with it. We beat the mackems 5-1 under him (then Arsenal away a week later). The final straw for him was that game at WBA, which was horrendous, but Pardew has overseen worse- see last 3 derbies.... Night on wasn't afraid, he wasn't a spineless coward who lived to serve his master, he cared about the club and it's supporters. He did far, far more for this club than AP has, and is a good man. Christ, even Souness got us to an FA Cup Semi-final- taking it to Spurs and Chelsea along the way- and a UEFA cup 1/4. He was awful. But he even beat the mackems 3-2. All of the above had their faults, some more glaring than others. Most weren't a lot better than average, but the point of my fairly aimless rant is to highlight just what an awful person Pardew is, and just how insulting he is to us as fans, and our clubs history and traditions. I truly hate the man. He has drained any form of excitement from this clubs life and along with Ashley has us where he wants us; in that straight jacket of mediocrity. We don't play our best players, we don't want to win anything, we play a dire brand of football, we're being lectured that losing to our bitterest lessors is acceptable and will become the norm. We have the f***ing p*ss ripped out of us by Pardew and Ashley and they don't give a f*** as long as they make the last buck out of us. I won't ever go back to SJP as long as both Ashley and Pardew are there. Agreed. He is our worst manager outside of Kinnear in the time I've supported us. Losing at home to the mackems 3-0 in succession and our failings in the cup against considerably weaker or lesser sides is enough to damn him against Souness, Roeder and Allardyce easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Been checking the stats on wiki and based on win percentages he is now statistically shitter than some of the other shockers we've had: Roeder - 45.83% Souness - 43.37% Dalglish - 38.46% Pardew - 38.00% Quite surprised by that to be honest, didn't realise it was that poor. If you start at the end of the 5th place finish season his win % drops to 32.9%, which is even worse than Gullit... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Been checking the stats on wiki and based on win percentages he is now statistically shitter than some of the other shockers we've had: Roeder - 45.83% Souness - 43.37% Dalglish - 38.46% Pardew - 38.00% Quite surprised by that to be honest, didn't realise it was that poor. If you start at the end of the 5th place finish season his win % drops to 32.9%, which is even worse than Gullit... With shit turgid football to boot. The question is when the % is akin to Gullits will he still have a job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 http://i.imgur.com/Zzgr7uR.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymag Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 As a Newcastle manager I would give him a 6 out of 10. Other than KK and Robson, all other managers are sub 5. I've supported him, but I think he has lost it. Key to success is getting rid before the downturn has gone too far. The downturn has started, and I wouldn't want Pardew to be starting the new season as our manager any more. Don't hate him, but his time is up. He's the worst I've ever seen at NUFC, by some distance. Roeder was a lot better than this guy, and you could argue he was working with a considerably weaker (or limited) squad. He did fantastic to take us to the FA Cup 1/4's and finish 7th in his interim season, but then struggled the next season as we finished 14th (I think) after the bank had dried up for Freddie. In that season we drew with Arsenal away, beat Liverpool at home, and got that remarkable draw at home to Man Utd with a team full of bairns. We also reached the UEFA Cup 1/4's, and tried to play decent football whenever possible. We had some horrendous matches too, I won't glorify the man; Charlton, Sheff Utd, Blackburn at home being particularly poignant. But he did beat the mackems......4-1. Then the likes of Hughton; installed a fantastic attitude, humility, and spirit into the club. He got us promoted, forged a very effective system for the players at his disposal and was successful with it. We beat the mackems 5-1 under him (then Arsenal away a week later). The final straw for him was that game at WBA, which was horrendous, but Pardew has overseen worse- see last 3 derbies.... Night on wasn't afraid, he wasn't a spineless coward who lived to serve his master, he cared about the club and it's supporters. He did far, far more for this club than AP has, and is a good man. Christ, even Souness got us to an FA Cup Semi-final- taking it to Spurs and Chelsea along the way- and a UEFA cup 1/4. He was awful. But he even beat the mackems 3-2. All of the above had their faults, some more glaring than others. Most weren't a lot better than average, but the point of my fairly aimless rant is to highlight just what an awful person Pardew is, and just how insulting he is to us as fans, and our clubs history and traditions. I truly hate the man. He has drained any form of excitement from this clubs life and along with Ashley has us where he wants us; in that straight jacket of mediocrity. We don't play our best players, we don't want to win anything, we play a dire brand of football, we're being lectured that losing to our bitterest lessors is acceptable and will become the norm. We have the f***ing p*ss ripped out of us by Pardew and Ashley and they don't give a f*** as long as they make the last buck out of us. I won't ever go back to SJP as long as both Ashley and Pardew are there. Agreed. He is our worst manager outside of Kinnear in the time I've supported us. Losing at home to the mackems 3-0 in succession and our failings in the cup against considerably weaker or lesser sides is enough to damn him against Souness, Roeder and Allardyce easily. Jack Charlton was worse imo, forcing Beardsley and Waddle to track back to stop the opposition. But the most clueless NUFC manager I've seen has got to be Ossie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Jesus, reading stuff like this, I can see why you get so annoyed by Pardew. This sounds like absolute bullshit management speak. Pardew has spoken publicly of his desire to cut down on the number of French players. "A lot of the French players we've introduced because of market forces," said Pardew. "Arsène Wenger's first port of call when he arrived here was the same reason, he thought he got better value. I'm very disappointed not to have more British-based players in my team. "I want more British-based players but I'm certainly not going to argue with the French contingent we've got. They've been absolutely brilliant. This is a world market. We have made our point within the club that we don't really want to buy any players from abroad." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Literally making it up as they go along. There's no vision or goal here, just keep rolling the dice and waiting for something, anything, to click. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 "I'm certainly not going to argue with the French contingent we've got. They've been absolutely brilliant. This is a world market. We have made our point within the club that we don't really want to buy any players from abroad." Has there ever been a more contradictory statement? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Remembers halfway through who his paymaster is the slippery fucking cunt. Thank fuck we don't buy the shite he wants btw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 holy fuck that article man, imagine if that was true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Remembers halfway through who his paymaster is the slippery fucking cunt. Thank fuck we don't buy the shite he wants btw. Forgets, surely? "These French he's got are fucking amazing. I don't want them." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Remembers halfway through who his paymaster is the slippery fucking cunt. Thank fuck we don't buy the shite he wants btw. Forgets, surely? "These French he's got are fucking amazing. I don't want them." Was going off "I want more British-based players but I'm certainly not going to argue with the French contingent we've got." Either way it's splitting hairs with this slippy cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Confused by those quotes personally and curious what our French players make of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 that article reminded me again of what the cunt is doing to mbiwa like...he'll be away no doubt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 I think he might do it deliberately so no-one can make head nor tail of anything he says. By the time people have tried to decipher whatever the fuck he is going on about then he's said something new and even more absurd. Simple but keeps his clock ticking over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Oh my God ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 did we ever get a proper answer from the people who aren't against him about what he brings to the job, other than he's not worse than an imaginary replacement might be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Remembers halfway through who his paymaster is the slippery f***ing c***. Thank f*** we don't buy the s**** he wants btw. Damn right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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