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Pardew to get £20m to spend in the summer?

April 30th, 2011 | 46 Comments |

Alan Pardew, Newcastle United, £20m to spend?
£20m available for players. Maybe.
Press speculation suggests that Alan Pardew will be given £20m to spend on players at Newcastle United in the summer.

If Louise Taylor of the Guardian is to be believed, Alan Pardew will have £20m of the £35m we got for Andy Carroll to spend in the summer. Taylor doesn’t say how she knows that and merely states it as fact, so there may or may not be some truth in it.

Apparently the remaining £15m will go on players’ wages.

As part of the article, Alan Pardew reflects on the sale of Carroll:

“Selling Andy was a watershed moment. You couldn’t tell what would happen. It was a bit like Kenny Dalglish going back to Liverpool – that could have been a disaster but proved the opposite.

“Fortunately we stepped up to the challenge and it’s definitely been good for some of our players. Our fans might be looking at strikers like Shola and Peter in a different light now.” (more…)