Pardew now monitoring all available strikers, but other targets now on hold.
Posted on July 14th, 2011 | 26 Comments |
In a move that will doubtless send Magpie fans into raptures, Alan Pardew has announced in a rare interview that he is now monitoring all the available strikers in the world, and even claims to bidding on one of them right now.
However, in a caveat which has may be familiar to many fans, he also announced that all other transfer activity will be put on hold until he finds the Cinderella who will fit his striker’s boots. Speaking first on his relentless hitman hunt he said:
“I don’t really want to mention names, but all strikers who are available, we are keeping a close eye on.
“It’s important that we keep bolstering the team as best we can.
“We have obviously been looking for a striker – we are still bidding for a striker as we speak – so we are doing all we can to get the right players for Newcastle.
“It’s not easy, it’s not an easy market – strikers are always the most difficult to get across the line – but we are working hard on it.”
When asked about other targets though, he then added:
“It depends, really, on the attacker that we hope to secure.”
The usually reticent manager then returned to the recurrent theme of what’s happening with the £35 million obtained by the club when Andy Carroll was sold to Liverpool, something which he ‘marked the card’ of fans over in this interiew. On this he reiterated:
“There has been talk of the money we have got in and where has it been spent. But you would be surprised with the deals we have done, it actually amounts to a fair bit.”
He then moved on to how the his dream hitman would have to be of the right “ilk” for Newcastle United, saying:
“We have got enough to bring a striker in of the right ilk for this football club, and that’s what we need to focus on. When we secure that player, then we will look again.”
With Charles N’Zogbia now looking Birmingham bound, and also with full back target, Neil Taylor, eventually resigning for Swansea City, Pardew then concluded:
“I am told that Charles has got an imminent move, so I don’t think that will be us.”
Here’s hoping that someone will be making an imminent move to us sometime soon!
This bloke is a complete prick (ap)