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Alan Pardew interview: “I want to threaten the top ten”.

January 18th, 2011 | 96 Comments |

Pardew: In coversation with the BBC's Danny Mills.
Pardew: In coversation with the BBC's Danny Mills.
Alan Pardew has given a long interview to ex England defender, Danny Mills for the BBC’s “Late Kick Off”. Mills played for Pardew briefly (on loan) during the Newcastle manager’s troubled spell at Charlton Athletic.

In the interview, Pardew speaks on how he had to take the job, but only after making sure that it was right for him. He also spoke on how he hopes to threaten the top ten in the fullness of time, how he see it as imperative that Newcastle keep their current key players as well as build for the future, on the role of agents in the modern game, how he hasn’t quite got the hang of the Geordie accent yet and more.

We previously published some brief selections from this interview in a recent ‘blog. However, below is a full transcript of the interview in it’s entirety.

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