Pardew talks about Colo and our response to the Blackburn defeat
Posted on October 29th, 2011 | 11 Comments |
Alan Pardew has responded to recent press speculation about Liverpool’s interest in Coloccini by saying:
“Liverpool like looking at our players, don’t they? But I don’t want to add any more to that. He’s been outstanding for us as a captain and a player and we’re in negotiations with him on a new contract.”
Somehow that’s been taken to mean that negotiations are going well by some elements of the press and blogosphere, although that’s not something I’d extrapolate from the above quote. Not that it matters much what Pardew thinks anyway – it will be Ashley’s decision based on the results of the contract negotiations between club and player and on any offer we receive from Liverpool, if indeed we receive one at all.
Fingers crossed on that one.
Pardew also went on to talk about how the Blackburn loss was disappointing but how we’re not going to let if affect our league situation:
“We were disappointed that we lost in the manner that we lost because of the influence to a degree of the referee. I think he got three key decisions wrong and that’s a lot to get wrong in a game of that magnitude.
“We can’t let that affect our minds, no team ever stays unbeaten. It won’t have knocked our confidence, the feel-good factor is still there. Had Spurs won that game 2-1 and we didn’t respond like we did, that would have been a very different feeling to what we’ve got now.
“There was honour in the performance at Blackburn and looking at my players individually, even though one or two were slightly below par, I thought the guys who came on, Guthrie in particular, did well.
“There were big bonuses to take away from that. It was the first game for Santon, he’s briefly experienced the Premier League and he’ll learn from that. He expected a couple of free-kicks where he got brushed. In Italy he’d have got those free-kicks 100%.
“He stopped playing, but you don’t get them here, but he’ll learn from that. Technically, when he had the ball you could see that he’s going to add to us.”
I’ve been reading that Tiote is 50-50 for Monday’s game, so it’s possible that Guthrie will get another chance to impress the boss against Stoke.
Steven Taylor has apparently had an American specialist in to address his ailing hooter by way of face mask, so the it’s looking likely he’ll play on Monday, albeit perhaps looking a bit like Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou.
Monday always seems like a long time to wait for a game but I’ll be hoping QPR do us a favour tomorrow with an unlikely result against Spurs.
Right, well I’m off for my usual Saturday brunch of blue whale kedgeree garnished with white tiger cutlets. I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend.
NUFCBlog Author: Hugh de Payen
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Blue whale kedgeree and white tiger cutlets? Hugh? Are you having brunch with Gary glitter again? What ever you do, don’t get out the hymen canapes otherwise you will never get rid of him.