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Pardew: the club is not yet stronger than last year

August 19th, 2011 | 32 Comments |

Pardew admits that Newcastle United is not yet a stronger club than it was last year.
Upbeat about transfers.
Newcastle United appear to be struggling to land a new striker and a new left-back, but Alan Pardew has not given up hope. The Newcastle manager admits we’re not stronger than we were last year but thinks we will be by the end of the transfer window.

The prospect of signing Modibo Maiga seems to be fading with every day and it seems that Sochaux’s Chairman Alexandre Lacombe is going to force Maiga to see out his contract until 2014.

“There are those who speak and those who do,” said Lacombe, although quite what he meant by that is anybody’s guess, but the French press are suggesting that the door is now firmly shut in terms of Maiga transferring to Newcastle.

The window however isn’t, and Alan Pardew thinks we may still be able to nip in that way and land our man. The usually mute manager had this to say:

“He is a player we want to bring to the club. That is where that is. Negotiations are still ongoing.” (more…)