Hmmm So Despite taking stick from Alan Shearer to "man up", Alan Pardew STILL defends Mike Ashley! Pardew is adamant that Mike Ashley worked hard to bring a “marquee signing” to St James’s Park in the summer – even though "it would have taken the club into the red". But, considering Ashley took £18m out of the club this summer, what the hell is "in the red"? Newcastle did not sign any senior player in the transfer window – apart from loanee Loic Remy. Teenager Olivier Kemen arrived for an undisclosed fee, while Steve Harper, Danny Simpson and James Perch left, the latter for a reported £750,000 fee. Alan Pardew: “I don’t want to give our fans any kind of discussion about January. “We’ll get plenty of time to talk about that leading up to it. “Our fans wanted a marquee signing. I stated that I wanted another offensive player. Another striker would have helped us. “I’m really happy with my strikers, but I’m a bit vulnerable to injury. But everybody has trained, and we’ve got a great team to turn up at Villa. “We’ve got a really good side, and a good bench, a bench which can affect the game. “I don’t want to talk about that (January), but, for the mood of everybody, it’s been tough. “They all expected a marquee signing, although I have to say a marquee signing would have taken us into our overdraft facility. “That was something we really didn’t want to do, although there were two or three bids that went in that would have definitely put us in that. “There was the will there, but I don’t want to say any more than that. I don’t want to affect our fans any more than they’ve been affected. “They’re disappointed, but we still carry a team that can have a successful season.” Utter BOLLOX! Pardew said in May: "We will be back in training on July 4th and I will have THREE major signings in the squad by then. "We must bring players in early so they are part of the pre-season programme and ready for the Premier League when it starts. "We showed this season (2012/13) that our squad is not big enough. We need at least THREE or FOUR marquee signings." Suggesting, in May, Pardew had a transfer budget. That changed with the arrival of Joe Kinnear!
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:03:59 +0000
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