Excellent Interview with Pardew...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25911139

This was an excellent interview from Alan Pardew, only about four and a half minutes and well worth watching if you haven't seen it already.

He makes an in-direct plea to Mike Ashley to stop selling our best players if Newcastle United are ever going to challenge for the Champions League positions again.

We sell our best players, loan in other clubs' players and wonder why we're not actually achieving anything?

Alan Pardew has impressed me and the more I look at his term as manager at St James' Park, you have to say that the only reason we haven't progressed more is because of the complete lack of backing from the owner.

At this point we're about to lose our best player for a big profit and then borrow another one from someone else.

When you consider what Pardew is left with in terms of quality players that we own, he's doing a fantastic job - I begin to wonder just exactly how long it will be before someone else realises his excellent work, takes him to their club and leaves us with Joe Kinnear to get us relegated.

 

why make an indirect plea to the fat bastard
when he can go direct and tell him to feck off

 

The main points are in the last minute of the interview - about the CL and how you have to keep your best players & give the the squad the belief that the club is ambitious to return there.

I think it's fair to say that Mike Ashley is not interested in getting into the Champions League and has no ambition outside of staying in the Premier League.

 

I saw the interview yesterday and it was the same old nonsensical w**k as always. Pardew would never leave here as he would never have as good anywhere else (within reason of where he could actually go). If Pardew did leave, Ashley would never risk Kinnear as manager as he is one heart attack away from the grave.


I don't hate Pardew but he has no backbone and is a snivelling wretch of a man. Thats my opinion of him anyway but in all honesty don't want him sacked as I dread what would come through the door to replace him.

 

I don't need to listen to it, his comments about Cabaye said the same thing. He sent out a plea then saying if we lost a player of that calibre, they would need to be replaced. Until he hasn't been, there's no complaints. The De Jong deal is good work - we should be taking him on loan, with an option to buy. I'd be more worried if we spunked a ton of cash on him, given his abject failure in a similar league. It's not like the Remy deal, which I don't really like, but I don't see Everton fans pi$$ing and moaning about Lukaku and Traore.

I don't know why anyone get so fcking annoyed about this stuff. Cabs is 29 this year and has 3 assists this season. The guy's talented, but went on strike for the first month, or would we rather vilify the manager who coaxed him out of his sulk whilst supporting the petulance that may have cost us a few points?

 

Alan Pardew has proved that he can get good results and build a decent team - the trouble being that he's not been backed by the owner to build a decent squad - while there is a complete lack of proper investment from the owner, utter ****e coming from the mouth of the 'Director of Football', Joe Kinnear (I recall him saying recently that no-one would be leaving this Transfer Window) then you have to wonder how long it will be before a club does come in for him.

 

Just hold your horses, man! Cabaye's bog seat's still warm and you're moaning! He wasn't God, he was a talented midfielder. If we use that money to bring in Cabella, Grenier and De Jong, how have we not strengthened? If Sep 1st comes around and we're weaker, then moan away. But I guarantee we'll be either marginally or markedly stronger.

 

It's not the specific deals that concern me - Hatem Ben Arfa is easily capable of filling the "number 10" role that Cabaye has been in recently - the concern is that as a club, Mike Ashley has no ambition for it other than survival in the division.

I suppose the end-game is: Do you want to pay your hard-earned cash into a club that has no ambition?

Sitting in 8th place may be the top of your wish list, but I have yearned for more.

 

What club would come in for him mate? Also what club would give him the contract we have given him? Why doesn't he stand up to Ashley and show some bottle? Pardew doesn't have the balls to walk out as he knows he wouldn't get a better job than this and thats the truth.

 

Do you honestly believe that Mike Ashley & Joe Kinnear are going to sign THREE players between now and the window shutting?

Wow.

I'm prepared to bet there will be no permanent signings for this club.

Guaranteed eh?

 

Pards is a good manager. His comments are always on the money. Unfortunately it doesn't matter who you appoint as a manager, the other side of things isn't going to change. We are going to go about things in a very slow and financially prudent fashion. If a bit of progress can be achieved through clever management then all the better. I bet Pardew has learnt more here than he has in his entire career beforehand. Its a challenging role he has. He is a proper football man and despite what some might think, he is as passionate as they come.

He'll stay where he is not because he is the bottom feeder some believe. But because despite all the bollocks that surrounds it at boardroom/DOF level etc, its a cracking football club with a great set of supporters. Football runs deep in these parts (yes I include the unwashed in that too). If I was a manager I'd fancy working up here too.

 

The way some clubs are sacking their managers, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see someone trying to take him.

Have you forgotten the managerial awards he recieved just two seasons ago? He's doing another decent job this season.

I suppose you are often in the office at work telling the Manager/Owner just what you think of them, right?

You don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

 

Sitting in 8th place is more or less the most realistic achievement for our club under the regime we have. A regime we can't touch nor do anything about. It is impossibly ludicrous to yearn for more. It's like yearning to be a multi-millionaire, or yearning to have Charlize Theron regularly giving free BJ's.

My option has been to pay no cash into it. So I observe, comment, support in my way, but ultimately given the overarching problem of capitalism in football, in time I will likely just disappear. Interest has already waned from watching a lot of matches, to only watching "big" games, to now only watching Newcastle. Even then, I haven't been to a game in two years.

 

Between now and the 1st September, we'll sign at least 3. Guaranteed is obviously a stupid thing for me to say, as I can't, but that's my comment. We operate as a calendar year of procurement - for 2013, we signed around 7, for 2012 we signed around 5 or 6. I don't understand why anyone thinks we won't sign at least 3 players this calendar year.

 

Pardew is in this for the long haul and he won't be going anywhere. All the team above us wouldn't want him and the teams below us would never give him a better contract. Ashley won't sack him and Pardew would never quit. So he won't be going anywhere in the concievable future.

I do agree with you though in regards to signings. De Jong on loan is the best we can hope for now. If we lose Cisse and with Shola leaving (he has to surely?) then we have two on loan strikers - Remy who won't stay and De Jong (well hopefully). That leaves us with no permanent strikers which is a pretty scary thought.

 

To me, that looks like Mike Ashley sucking the football-life out of people.

Compromise has set-in with you and apathy also... It's not a criticism, just an observation.

Just to give up and say "I can't change or affect anything" is a pretty down-beat view in my humble opinion.

Has your lack of passion been caused by Ashley's 6-year reign?

 

This is key for me. The club invested wisely after the last big sale and if they do it again I'll have no complaints. I'd love it to be in the next three days, but the time to take stock properly will be at the end of the next window.

 

I make this comment every time someone attempts to be rational and philosophical about our position. "Fan" is short for fanatic, when have you ever known a fanatic to be rational and philosophical about things? We have ambition, it's in our nature, and I don't think it's ludicrous that a fan yearns for more, especially a Newcastle fan at this moment, when clubs which don't have anywhere near the same support or potential for mass market exploitation are actually intent on building and achieving something.

ACS is happy with watching a team in constant transition, and seeing good players achieve nothing here, but I am not. We've got a system in place to sign good players, why the f*** wouldn't you just fill a squad with them and go for something?!?!?! Champions League is profitable Mr Ashley

 

You could well be right - Pardew is at a great club with great fans - but looking at West Ham United... unfinished business there for him and Sam Allardyce looks far from safe.

You have to weigh-in the factor of Pardew's frustration... he led the club into the Europa League but wasn't backed with the funds to make the squad good enough and we started to fail like Swansea are this season because of European matches mid-week. He's on the verge of doing it again this season knowing full well that he won't get the funds to bolster the squad with high-enough-quality numbers.

 

Walking out is just the cowards way. Its too easy just to down tools when things aren't exactly how you'd like them to be. He knew what he was taking on when he took the job, why would he bottle it now?

He may not get a better job. Outside the top 7 or so, its as good as any other on the market. Given the top end jobs all go to foreign managers. There are only 4 Englishman managing in the top division. One of them is on a temporary contract (Sherwood). To be honest this theory just doesn't hold any water whatsoever and the others are Hull and West Ham.

I can't think of many managers who walk away because they're not getting their own way nowadays.