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Pardew: “We won’t get Champions League football this season”

March 30th, 2012 | 16 Comments |

Pardew lays out his 3 year plan for Newcastle United.
Realistic aims?
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has been talking about his aims for the next three seasons, but writes off Champions League qualification for this season.

This is what Alan Pardew had to say about his 3-year plan for the club:

“You want to be in there competing, and we have done that.

“Whether we get a European place will probably be decided by fate more than anything. We have had a great season regardless of the European spot, and we want to do that again next year.

“By hook or by crook, in the next three years it would be nice to get some sort of European football or win a trophy. That’s the goal.

“We won’t get Champions League football this season, I just think that’s too big a gap to bridge – five points on Spurs, and Arsenal are probably away from us now.

“It’s too much, they are too good teams to catch with eight games left.” (more…)