Newcastle boss Alan Pardew says he may be unable to keep his best players if the Magpies receive big-money offers . United could qualify for next season's Champions League if they beat Everton in their final Premier League game on Sunday. But Pardew told BBC Newcastle: "It's impossible to restrict Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City from coming in for one of our players. "We have players who are not on the salaries these top clubs can offer." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18042729
Comm - didn't you hear mate. The craas are far bigger than any of these and there is more likelihood that the likes of Iniesta, Ronaldo and Messi wanting to come to the Sports Direct than any barcode players moving out. I mean, its not like Ashley has any previous in cashing in on his saleable assets is it?
Nothing to do with luck, but thanks lads for your comments. I'm sure with O'neill you guys can push for top 8-10 next season no probs
You sure? I'll await confirmation for Chapped Arse etc.....sure they can put us right, on just how more huge they are compared to Europes elite.
At the end of the day if we lose 1 or 2 of our best players I'm confident that our scouting system will find more than good replacements. Mike Ashley will not sell for less than silly money, I can't see Cisse or Krul going for less than 35m. Tiote I'd say 30m. 25m minimum seeing as his contract was at 6 and a half years at the start of the season. If we can get Ba on a new contract, then I take comfort in the fact that none of our best players will be going for less than a massive amount that we can use to improve the squad.
He's not worth that but I remember the club stating that it would take a record fee to sign Krul. We don't sell players for what they're worth, remember? We're not a selling club. We don't want to lose our best players unless a massive offer comes in that's too much to turn down and will help the team in the long run.
Chaps couldn't say anything of interest if he tried for a month solid. He opens his mush and a whole load of ****e just falls out. Lol **** me you shake the deluded tree and see what falls out? I have no doubt Ashley could sell 3 or 4 players and pocket £50m or £60m (don't count on the Carrol deal as a benchmark chum as that was £50m cash floating round from the Torres deal) but he wont be reinvesting that money daft lad, or why sell in the first place. Ashley's plan is to cultivate new talent with this bloke Carr for very little investment and sell them on for huge amounts of money. It worked last year and he will reap the financial rewards of that policy this summer. He will again look to Carr to fill those gaps with new talent which is fine but you cant be that lucky again and have players replicating that immediate success. The great thing for Ashley is that he can cash in on his assets, safe in the knowledge that European football is assured whatever he does now. He has saved Newcastle from the Rangers route by lending you money but he wants to see that returned and if he cant sell you for £350m he will sell the assets to recoup the debt. If you cant see that then you're blinkered, thick or just very good at poker.
Always searching for the negative, I wonder what causes this? I doubt many would. He had a very patchy record as a manager. Plenty had reservations and based on his record you can see why. He'd also had plenty of rumours flying around of an unsavoury nature. He was given full support despite this as all our managers are. Even Fat Sam despite being a blatant bad fit. So nothing to with fickle fans, just taking as you find. Misplaced smugness based on hindsight is always an unattractive trait. Unfortunately for you, one thing you can not call our current fanbase is fickle. Hence record crowds in the fizzy pop.
Flipping hell, you had one season in there in which you ran away with the league for Christ's sake...Try being down there years on end and struggling at the bottom, and then see if your crowds would be as high!
Now come on mate, the crowds of 12-17k before Keegan never happened, the crowds of 42k at the start of this season until Ashley done whatever he done with the ticket prices, never happened either. Didn't you know? Back to the what this thread is about, well done Alan Pardew deserved manager of the year and well done Mike Ashley for sticking to his principles cos if the fans had their way they would be no Mike Ashley or even Pardew or european football next season.
Well done Pardew and hope the casino debts are now paid off!! I too think he's a smarmy **** like and typical cockney for the mouth & actions. Couldn't punch his way out of a saggy chip bag like but it looks good on camera..
I love the predictions of the mackems, we'll sell everyone and fail. It's what we like to hear. This second season syndrome is a right ****. Party with Marty is over, he'll do well, but your last 10 games just proves that it was a brilliant honeymoon period and a lot of work is needed. Passports with Pardew will do me.
I think some of the Sunderland fans are suffering from 'inferior dogs syndrome', as so eloquently described by Dr Freud in the literature. More balanced people, such as the bloke who posted on the RTG site, said that 'Newcastle are now light years of us'.
Every clubs best players are liable to move to one of Europe's elite if they make a suitable offer. I don't get what's so shocking about what Pardew said, he's absolutely right. Atleast we'll have European football next season (possibly Champions League) as a slight deterrent for anyone who's head might be turned by a bigger club, which is a whole lot more than you have and most other clubs in Europe.
The fact that you trawled through an exclusive SAFC forum to find that one comment speaks volumes for you marra!
Pardew did say we would struggle to keep our best players but they won't go cheap. He also said that players' agents are getting in touch with us who he would never have dreamed of signing last summer.