Pardew: “we are very much on the case of players”
Posted on March 5th, 2011 | 20 Comments |
My cat will be the death of me. Yesterday he threw up by the side of the bed, which forced me to kind of dance around it, thus jolting my bad knee and putting me in agony all day. And this morning I jolted my knee again because of the cat. It was dark when I got up and the cat is black, and for nefarious reasons he was asleep halfway up the stairs, so I trod on him and we both howled as I tried to dance around him again.
But will he do anything useful like rid me of a rat at the bottom of the garden? Not a chance.
Anyway, if you remember I put up a post a few days ago about Keegan saying that Pardew would not see any of the money we got fot Carroll. Pardew has however come out to counter that, saying:
“We have sat down and discussed briefly what the plans are, of course. It’s very important to have a strategic plan of what you are doing.
“We don’t want to be doing everything at the last minute – although like all transfer windows, you have to be patient because sometimes there are six or seven teams involved around one player who is available, and then they fall away.
“It might happen right at the last minute, but there has been three or four months’ work gone into that particular player.
“We might not be signing players as soon as the window opens, but believe you me, we are very much on the case of players we feel might take us forward.”
Time will tell of course but my guess is that we will actually buy some players, although not £35m worth. I am just speculating of course but I reckon we’ll spend about £15m on a player or two.
I’m off to Welsh Wales today as it’s my mate’s birthday and we’re going to a ludicrously expensive restaurant near Raglan. I’m hoping I get good news about our game with Everton though. My heart obviously says we’ll win but my head’s going for a draw.
HWTL
Looks like a score draw today, im going for 2-2 with best and jonas scoring the goals.