It was a bizarre appointment, and apart from trying to sign a Newcastle player who was out on loan I can't think of anything he really did.
Alan Pardew appears to have won a major battle at Newcastle United following Joe Kinnear's resignation as the club's director of football late on Monday night.
Two transfer windows have passed since Kinnear's controversial appointment by the Newcastle owner, Mike Ashley, last summer without the club making a single permanent signing.
Although Loïc Rémy – last summer –and Luuk de Jong – last week – have arrived on loan, the anxiety about the one-time Tottenham full-back turned Wimbledon, Luton, Nottingham Forest and, briefly, Newcastle manager's ability to fulfil his job description was escalating.
Asked if Newcastle were capable of making permanent signings following Saturday's 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland, Pardew replied, eventually: "I've got no comment to make on that one."
Evidently deeply unhappy with the failure of Kinnear and Ashley to heed his advice to sign a replacement for Yohan Cabaye, who joined Paris Saint-Germain for £20m last week, Pardew – who against all odds has guided the team to eighth in the Premier League – made his position clear.
"I'm a professional manager," said the man who had urged the club's hierarchy to reinvest part of the Cabaye money in the Lyon midfielder Clément Grenier. "If I was in charge, solely, of transfers things might be different. I think I've made my opinions very clear this week and all the rest is confidential."
Alan Pardew appears to have won a major battle at Newcastle United following Joe Kinnear's resignation as the club's director of football late on Monday night.
Two transfer windows have passed since Kinnear's controversial appointment by the Newcastle owner, Mike Ashley, last summer without the club making a single permanent signing.
Although Loïc Rémy – last summer –and Luuk de Jong – last week – have arrived on loan, the anxiety about the one-time Tottenham full-back turned Wimbledon, Luton, Nottingham Forest and, briefly, Newcastle manager's ability to fulfil his job description was escalating.
Asked if Newcastle were capable of making permanent signings following Saturday's 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland, Pardew replied, eventually: "I've got no comment to make on that one."
Evidently deeply unhappy with the failure of Kinnear and Ashley to heed his advice to sign a replacement for Yohan Cabaye, who joined Paris Saint-Germain for £20m last week, Pardew – who against all odds has guided the team to eighth in the Premier League – made his position clear.
"I'm a professional manager," said the man who had urged the club's hierarchy to reinvest part of the Cabaye money in the Lyon midfielder Clément Grenier. "If I was in charge, solely, of transfers things might be different. I think I've made my opinions very clear this week and all the rest is confidential."
