I Love Newcastle

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has said that he remains confident of turning down the fortunes of the club despite suffering a sixth consecutive defeat at the hands of Arsenal. Newcastle have been on a very poor run of form since the January transfer window came to an end with the sale of Yohan Cabaye to Paris St Germain. The midfielder was sold to the French outfit for around £ 20 million, but the cost of rebuilding the team will be much more. The loss of one player has affected the team so much that they have lost all the last six matches without exception.

Despite this poor run of form, Pardew says that he wants to remain at the club amidst a lot of hatred from the supporters towards him and owner Mike Ashley. The former West Ham manager still has six years left on his contract after Ashley stunned everyone by offering him an eight-year contract a few years ago. This was also believed to be one of the major reasons behind Newcastle not sacking the manager when he was found guilty of head-butting an opposition player. This is also been seen as a reason behind Newcastle poor run of form, as Pardew missed a number of matches due to a stadium ban.

“They’re frustrated. We had 2,000 here tonight making this long, long trip. Although we’re playing a good team, they still expect us to win. They’ve seen us lose again and they’re not happy, and I have to respect that. But all I can do is do this job to the best of my ability. We’ve been top 10 all year. We should have performed better in this run, I know, and we’ve got to finish in the top 10. If Cardiff think it’s important for them on Saturday, it’s important for us to finish in the top 10,” said Pardew.

Former Newcastle United owner Freddy Shepherd has revealed that current manager Alan Pardew will not have survived under his regime after such a poor run of results.

Pardew was given an eight-year contract by owner Mike Ashley in what is seen as a strange decision by the club. This has meant that they have been unable to sack him even when the manager was found guilty of head-butting an opposition player during a recent match with Hull city. This led to Pardew being banned from the stadium for three matches and a further touchline ban for several matches.

Despite these problems, Pardew remains the manager at St James’s Park and it is widely believed to be because of the lengthy contract. It would take a lot of money to sack him from the job and it seems that Ashley is not prepared to sanction this amount. Freddy Shepherd, whose controversial regime at the club was ended by Ashley, says that he would not have been as lenient with Pardew’s ill-discipline. The former West Ham manager has been guilty of several such behaviours in the past.

He says that he has been recommended for anger management therapy after this latest incident. Despite the troubles of the pitch, Newcastle are ninth in the table.

“I think the board at the time, not particularly me, with Sir John would have had him on his bike. Who knows the emotion he was going through? I like the guy. I’ve met him and in normal circumstances you’d certainly have a pint with the guy, he’s fine. I think he just lost it that day. Would he have survived if he was at Man U or Chelsea or Liverpool as boss? I doubt it,” said Shepherd.

Newcastle suffered a 4-0 hammering against Manchester United, who are going through problems of their own, last weekend.

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has received the highest punishment given to a Premier league manager in the history. He has been fined £ 60,000 and given a seven match ban following his head-butt of Hull City midfielder David Meyler.

This is one of the several problems Pardew has run into players and other managers over the last few years. The manager has also been given a separate £ 100,000 fine by his club. The 52-year-old will now miss most of this season, and he has revealed that he is likely to seek help by attending anger management courses.

The FA has stated that Pardew will begin his second match suspension with immediate effect. Out of the seven matches, three will be from the entire stadium. The remaining four will be bans from the touchline only. After struggles with relegation during the middle of the campaign, the form of the club substantially improved in the last few weeks. The FA have also warned the 52-year-old about his future misconduct. The manager has apologised for the incident and stated that he would be prepared to accept any punishment given by the FA.

There was also a possibility of the manager losing his job after internal investigation by the club, but it now seems that he will remain as the Newcastle manager for the time being.

“Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew will serve a seven-match suspension with immediate effect, subject to any appeal, after he admitted an FA misconduct charge. An independent regulatory commission today ruled the first three matches imposed are a stadium ban with the remaining four a touchline ban,” said a FA statement.

“As I have made clear, I deeply regret the incident and again wholeheartedly apologise to all parties for my conduct, which I understand was not acceptable,” said Pardew on the club’s official site.

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has apologised to the Hull City player David Meyler for his involvement in a clash that saw the manager sent to the stands for bad behaviour. Newcastle were the recent visitors to the KC stadium in the Premier league match.

They managed a 4-1 win over the relegation threatened opposition to finally take some pressure off the club. Newcastle had managed three successive defeats before finally breaking the run with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa last weekend. They had to build on this win in order to sustain their position in the top half of the table.

In a heated battle between the two clubs, Pardew lost his cool and he was involved in a touchline clash with Meyler, who arrived there to pick up the ball that had just gone out of play. After head-butting Meyler, Pardew received his marching orders and was sent to the stands. After the match, the manager, who has previously been involved in touchline clashes with managers and players alike, said that his actions were not good and that he was extremely regretful of the incident. The club have already fined him £ 100,000, while he is set to face more action from the FA as well.

A lot of reaction has come towards this incident from pundits, managers, and fans alike.

“It was just a heat of the moment thing. Obviously I massively regret it. I think I am going to have to sit down from now on because that’s about two or three incidents I have been involved in on the line. I didn’t mean to do anything aggressive, but I did move my head forward and that’s enough. It was just because of the situation, if I was on the other side of the line, that wouldn’t have happened, perhaps it will teach me to sit down,” said Pardew.

Alan Pardew already spoke to the media about his January plans as the coach of Newcastle United said that it will be a fairly quiet month involving transfers but even with his statements, there still are a number of players that have been linked with Newcastle United.

Werder Bremen’s Aaron Hunt has a contract with the German club that expires in the summer and the player himself is not certain on what he will do after ends. Newcastle is hoping to reach a pre-contract agreement with Hunt which means that he might make his move to the Premier League club on a free transfer only if Alan Pardew can reach an agreement with the club and the player.

Stoke City and Southampton are possible destinations of Aaron Hunt if he decides to make his way out of Werder Bremen. The 27 years old player did make a hint stating that if he does indeed decide to leave his current club, he would like to join a different league and country.

“So far there have been no calls, not even with other clubs,” he said. “The end of January, beginning of February, it will be more specific. If Werder are pushing for a quick decision, I would be set quickly’’.

“It is then decided in February or March if I renew with the club or leave. That someone is at a club for so long hardly happens. I am glad that they Bremen appreciate me so’’.

“I do not say that by no means will I leave the Bundesliga. But when it comes to change, I would appeal to more foreign countries’’. Aaron Hunt stated when asked about his near future.

Newcastle United are also keeping a close eye on Gueida Fofana and Cedric Bakambu but it still remains unclear whether Alan Pardew will try and make a move for them in the January transfer window wait until the summer.

Newcastle United has heightened their interest in Wilfried Zaha, the Manchester United winger, by opening dialogues to bring him in on loan, stated a leading United Kingdom based tabloid. Recent reports suggest that Wilfried’s representatives have already met the Newcastle United officials to talk about the possibility of a 6 month contract.

While manager David Moyes is believed to be very keen on the suggestion of Wilfried getting 1st team football in English Premier League, the twenty year old has eliminated a come back to Crystal Palace, his former club.

Wilfried was signed by in January by former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and that was Sir Alex’s last signing before stepping down from as Man Utd manager. Ironically, Wilfried has only featured in Man Utd’s League Cup victory against Norwich this year while playing under David Moyes.

In the mean time, French contingent of Newcastle United could last night begin dreaming of Brazil as they qualified for the World Cup next summer. Mathieu Debuchy and Yohan Cabaye were both magnificent as France defeated Ukraine 3 – 0 in a home match in Paris to make it to the World Cup finals 3 – 2 on aggregate.

With this, France has become the very first team to overcome a 2 goal shortfall in the history of World Cup play-off in an important game full of excitement and tension. Mathieu Debuchy and Yohan Cabaye are certainties to make it to the final squad. It is believed that Moussa Sissoko and Loic Remy would also be on the team.

Newcastle United suffered a shock 3-2 defeat at the hands of newly promoted Hull city at home during the weekend. It was not a result that manager Alan Pardew expected especially given that his team was coming into the match on the back of a good run of form.

Newcastle had a horrible transfer window in which they failed to get a number of transfer targets, while also having most of their star names linked with moves to other clubs. Pardew, though, has managed to get past all this and his team have started the season in a good way.

Even though they suffered an opening day shocker against Manchester city by losing 4-0, they have since recovered and have managed to win three on the bounce before losing to Hull. On loan star Loic Remy opened the scoring for Newcastle in the 10th minute. Brady, though, equalised for Hull after 26 minutes, but Remy’s goal just before half-time appeared to have given Pardew’s men just the tonic they needed to perform well in the second half. Hull, though, gave a shock of their own by scoring three minutes into the second half through Ahmed El Mohamady.

Aluko goal in the 76th minute gave the away team the lead in the match for the first time, which they kept until the final whistle.

“It’s about momentum and we’ve thrown it out of the window. We had that momentum and everyone was feeling good with a victory appearing on the cards but that is what the Premier League does, unfortunately; you have to be consistent to get the win you need. This is a place where we need to crank it up all the time and keep the pressure on,” said Pardew after the match. Newcastle’s next league match will be a trip to Goodison Park.

It has been a strange summer at Newcastle United following the arrival of Joe Kinnear as the director of football, which has undermined the authority of manager Alan Pardew.

However, Pardew has said that he will persuade the club as much as possible in order to bring in two more strikers before the end of the transfer window. Newcastle had a spectacular season only recently when they finished in fifth position, but the perils of Europa league football coupled with several injuries meant that they finished in the bottom half of the campaign last season.

There was also the threat of relegation for most of the season last time around and the pressure is on Pardew. He also has to work with the former manager Kinnear around the club as the director of football. Even though the former West Ham United manager may have stated that he has no issues when it comes to working with Kinnear, there seems to be a lot of tension at St James’s Park. Newcastle recently came back after an intense training session in Portugal.

Pardew has said that he will speak to the owner Mike Ashley about the need to bring two strikers. This is especially important given the future of Cisse is also in doubt.
“It is important now that the message we give out is strong and that Joe hopefully secures the strikers that we need. I have, of course, been speaking to people at the club while we were in Portugal (about signings). It is my job to progress it for the fans and that’s what I am going to try to do. I am the spokesman to the board, to Joe and Mike in particular,” said Pardew.

It has been speculated that several key players will be leaving Newcastle in the summer.

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has said that he is extremely confident that he will remain as the manager of the club next season after overseeing a very poor campaign. Newcastle were one of the surprising teams of last season as they almost managed to snatch a top four place at the end of the campaign.

However, several stars from last season have heavily underperformed this campaign. This coupled with the loss of players like Demba Ba has meant that Newcastle could only finish 16th in the table.

For long periods of the season, Newcastle were under the threat of relegation. As a result, there is a lot of pressure on manager Pardew especially because he spent a lot of money on several French players during the January transfer window. After the 1-0 defeat against Arsenal on the final day of the season, Pardew said that it has been a very difficult season, but he is hoping that owner Mike Ashley does not consider sacking him. Newcastle have suffered very bad defeats this season, while the loss against Arsenal was the ninth home defeat of this campaign.
The 6-0 defeat against Liverpool and 3-0 defeat against archrivals Sunderland are also sore points of the season for Newcastle.

“I’m pretty confident I’ll be the manager here. I love being the manager. I will be speaking to Mike [Ashley, owner] and Derek [Llambias, managing director] this week to make sure we get a response and a reaction. He can tell me where he’s coming from and we can clear the air about how we want to take it forward. He could turn around and say, ‘sorry Pards, see you later and thanks very much’. He could do that if we don’t make it, he could do that if we make it,” said Pardew.

Newcastle United have found their next star in the form of the midfielder Moussa Sissoko according to the manager Alan Pardew. Newcastle brought in no less than five French players during the January transfer window – a decision that has been criticised by many including the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

However, they have finally started paying dividends after the club has won two matches on the bounce due to the presence of new players like Moussa Sissoko. The midfielder made his home debut for his new team in the match against Chelsea during the weekend. He straightaway enrolled himself into the Newcastle legend by scoring two goals and helping the team to a 3-2 victory.

Pardew has stated that the club has been tracking the player for more than a year now, and they are extremely delighted to get their man. Sissoko has been linked with a move to Liverpool in the past. Sissoko impressed with his power, quality, and pace. Even though he has played only two matches for the club, he is already showing that he is a great player according to Pardew. This is because he came up against great players like Lampard, Juan Mata, and Oscar during the weekend, but he was able to outshine them.

“I don’t want to say too much about him, because his performance speaks for itself and it doesn’t need me to give a sound-bite because he’s going to get enough headlines, but he’s just been like a giant, that’s all I can say, in training and in everything, the way he’s carried himself. He’s a real force of football. It’s only two games in and hopefully we’re saying the same thing in the summer, because those Chelsea players we came up against are top, top players – Oscar, Lampard, Mata,” said the Newcastle manager.