Yohan Cabaye has given his first interview for a few weeks, during which Newcastle have had a disastrous spell, collecting only two points and one goal in our last four games and we’ve conceded ten goals.
Yohan Cabaye – I am focused
We half expected an interview with Fab Coloccini, who returned to the side from his back injury, after missing twelve games, and he was solid on Saturday, as was our defense for a change.
But Colo didn’t give any interviews, so here is what Yohan had to say in the Evening Chronicle today:
“I think we had a good response from last week – but we did not win the game.” “It is going to be very important to get three points.”
“It is only about us now, not Wigan, Norwich City or anybody else.” “In the dressing room, everything is OK here.” “The French players all want to adapt well. We are all focused together.”
“We wanted to show we are together. We have stayed focused on being safe and playing in the Premier League next season. That is the most important thing.”
“We know we are going to play well if we are focused together and stay together.” “Colo is back as well. For us, it was a good, refreshed team.”
“I am focused. I am 100% with everyone.” “I just want to save the club with my team-mates. I want to stay in the Premier League.” “I think it was a good draw if we think about the Liverpool game.”
No, we don’t want to think about the Liverpool game, which was a disaster for Newcastle United and made news around the world.
Even my dentist last week wondered why I wasn’t wearing a black armband following the display, and he had watched the full game with his son, and thought Newcastle were completely abysmal.
Unfortunately he was right – and I have to stop even thinking about that game as I mentioned above – I’m getting depressed.
If Coloccini steadies the Newcastle defense in the last two games of the season and we stay up, Newcastle must make every effort to keep him on Tyneside.
But if we do go down, then he’ll leave, as will a number of our other best players – and as Yohan says above – he wants to stay in the Premier League.
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143 comments so far
Jail for Ashley
May 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Comment #41So when we get this new super technical über manager,do you think he’ll have the temerity to stand in front of the cameras and tell us our already weakened squad has been further weakened yet we still have enough in the tank OR do you think he might do a ” Keegan “.
Lilongwe Geordie
May 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Comment #42Ernest,
Good post, I still think you understate the role Pardew has played in our demise this year though.
I think your views on Ashley in part back up Catchy’s arguments of he was given bad advice. He didn’t have any knowledge of running a club when he took over, and has stated that he didn’t have in depth knowledge of football either. A few characters have taken him for a ride, Keegan for example, knew that Ashley wanted to give the fans a boost, so was happy to take a 4million contract, way over the top, which I’m sure coincidentally tied in with the amount his football circus owed.
Ashley was supposedly friends with Jeff Vetere, who got a job at the club on the back of his prior employment at Chelsea, a role in which he became friends with the odious Dennis Wise. Welcome on board through Jeff’s advice.
The list of bad advice goes on, but I think he is becoming more savvy, and I think his main/most trusted advisor on football is now Graham Carr. Hopefully that will be an end to his bad decisions re management, coaching players etc. Although I still think Beardsley holds huge sway, and given the kids were under his tutelage must have given glowing reports for people to think they were ready for the step up.
As for Pardew, he has demonstrated a lack of ability to change style, to alter games for the better when we need something extra, and seems to have run out of ideas. I think you may be right, on other forums there is a lot of support for Pards, will you still feel that way if both Sunderland and Wigan win in the next 2 days? No matter how bad our injuries have been, we have put out some very good teams in some very winnable games, and yet haven’t won. West Ham, Swansea, Reading all at home. Even with just those three games we could be looking at mid table.
His excuses are the most damning thing though. To say luck has gone against us, there have been occasions where we have got lucky. After the Everton game he said we deserved the luck and these things balance out. Maybe they balance out, maybe they don’t but I think the fact is that when we got lucky, Reading away, Everton to name 2 off the top of my head, we weren’t good enough to take full advantage.
Of course players take some blame, some haven’t performed, some have been wholly out of form, but the stubbornness with which he sticks to the same tactics and players is just downright madness. I can’t remember who said it, but “madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By that definition, Pardew is barking mad!
beefman13
May 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Comment #43Hemingway, just hold on there, you say not one person you mix with blames Pardew, so you have a private box on your own have you, listen I support the owner, I hate his frigan manager, and I will say of course the 8 year deal was grosely over the top, I say the majority of the fault lies with the manager, he wanted the bullets to fire he got them all be it in January, but enough time to still push for comfortable top ten no bother.
Again a top international footballer playing in a top international team in virtually every position, that shows how we have bought really well and everyone was well happy in January, its the way our manager plays square pegs in round holes! ie he has played Jonas in 6 different positions this season with no assists occurring, quite spectacular, no goals from corners in 430 corners, why is this not addresed more, he will come out and give his politician speil that he is, could have fooled me, set pieces apart from two free kicks are predictable and woeful, same set up style of play teams just know how we play, defensive minded over cautious to the extreme, taking benny of on Saturday cos he ;looked a bit tired, come on he could win a game in aheartbeat, puts gosling on who has showed virtually nothing and did so again, put shola on yawn yawn yawn, when a young Campbell is chomping to get decent game with the club instead of being put out on the left wing for 15 mins like Pardew does.
Of course MA had tolearn from the keegan fiasco and the big money contracts that were being given out to the like of smith n Nolan and the others although Nolan wasn’t to bad neither was he.
YOU say MA is just an incompitant multi billionaire shopkeeper( earns more in interest in a year than you will make in 20 lifetimes) we are back in the richest clubs in the world, and I know how precarious our situation is, and that is down to the Manager simple as he has the tools, he is utilising them wrongly, MA brought him in so he is at fault there but he is far from incompitant and your post stunk of 2008/09.
Jail for Ashley
May 6, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Comment #44daztoon ,
can’t knock you for that.
daztoon-anti christ is that the time
May 6, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Comment #45Supporting the toon over 30 years and I must say with what he has to work with For me Pardew is the worst manager I have seen at the Toon and there have been some shite ones.Pardew was sacked by Southampton after a 4-0 win because of low morale and unrest of his Staff so what must the dressing room be like after a season we have witnessed
Lilongwe Geordie
May 6, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Comment #46I get it, Ashley has faults, has made huge errors, generally just when things were starting to settle, but unless you can come up with 250million to buy the club, and then more to pay back his loan, then we don’t have too much choice. He is as stubborn as they come, so isn’t likely to sell up.
I also think the fact he is stubborn means that regardless of whether fans had protested against Pardew, he wouldn’t have sacked him. He will do it his way. I think he is probably feeling the pressure and worry just as much as we are at the minute, maybe more for commercial reasons but the fact he stepped in to get 3 full internationals and 2 youth internationals (One former) in January show he does not want to see us down.
Pards will go at the end of the season, I think that is pretty much set in stone, who will come in, god knows, but it will be under Carr’s influence I expect, which hopefully, he does as well with as some of the players.
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Comment #47Jail
My beef with Ashley has always been his appalling and misguided choice of managers.
But it is hard to knock how we have somehow assembled the following players, many of whom were here before January.
Krul, Debuchy, Colo, M’Biwa, Santon,
Sissoko, Cabaye, Anita,
Ben Arfa, Cisse, Marveaux
(+ Goofy, Haidara, Tiote etc)
It takes a very special person to f..k that up
Le Belfast 007
May 6, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Comment #48I wouldn’t be sure about Pardew leaving at the end of the season like. I think he’ll bluff his way into getting another season.
Le Belfast 007
May 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Comment #49Europa league, injuries, disallowed goals blah blah blah
French players not knowing the language blah blah blah
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Comment #50I don’t want my club to have a nice bank balance. I want all the clubs assets on the pitch.
And, no, I don’t think this squad is good enough. We only have one premier league quality striker who can’t play by himself up front.
I don’t for one second believe Pardew is as pleasant with Ashley behind the scenes as he is in front of the cameras, paying lip service. He knew fine well last summer we needed to strengthen. And we didn’t. And Pardew is having to front up every single week. But he was given an 8 year deal and there is no way on earth he is going to walk away, especially if he is as self-confident and proud and – yes – even arrogant.
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Comment #51Beefman
There are 50000 + fans inside St. James every week, so I can’t speak for them all, which is what I was hinting at. I do however, mix with 15 or so people who don’t have the anger towards Pardew as they do the owner.
Big Pappa Cissé
May 6, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Comment #52If the worst were to happen and we went down can anyone else think of a better team on paper that has ever been relegated ? . I can’t
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Comment #53ernest
why play cisse up by himself. 433 or 343 would be way more effective than pardew’s 3 DM s and 10 payers spending most of the match in their own half.
A lot of teams play 1 main striker who is then supported but we don’t get people and around Cisse because of our manager’s ultra negative hit and hope tactics
solano
May 6, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Comment #54Well done Daztoon, for having the courage of his convictions. I too attended home games for nearly 30 years (16 as a season ticket holder)and have seen my fair share of the shite and sublime. However, when the club was taken over by these cuckoos my time to say ‘no mas’ rapidly approached.
I still get to a share of away games (through friends tickets and contacts) but it is increasingly difficult as the club has no interest in even taking up the full away allocation as they don’t make money from it.
Money – ie withdrawing financial support, is in reality, the only language which Ashley will listen to.
If we go down, then our present squad of foreign mercenaries will leave and we will be there for the second time in 4 years. Rallying cries of ‘get behind the lads’ just won’t wash anymore when you have to watch Gosling, Perch and the Ameobi’s.
It may have to get worse to get better – but we need to rid this club of the cancer which has taken hold since 2007. 30000 outside the ground on a matchday at ko time would be a good start for gathering momentum and running these jokers out of town.
Time for fans to shake off the apathy and shrugging of shoulders, because we used to be a proud breed and all I see now is brow beaten faces and the air of inevitable defeat about them.
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Comment #55Rotanda
All clubs who are even remotely successful and who have achived anything in the game always have a core of players who have come through the academy and understand the club or have foreigners who have completely bought in to the club, the area, the region and the league in which we play. The team you listed there has one, Tim Krul. That is not good enough and shouldn’t be allowed to happen. You need to keep an identity of the club.
I was reminded of this yesterday when I was watching the post-match interviews of the Merseyside derby. Gerrard and Carragher were being interviewed and talking about if the club would be adversely affected by Carraghers impending retirement. The answer was “no” as they have Stevie Gerrard there to take up the mantle of the boss man on the pitch, in the dressing room and elsewhere. To show to the younger lads and the new foreign guys what it mean to play for Liverpool.
Now what do we have? A captain in Coloccini who wanted to leave in January and who will be sold in the summer and a vice captain in Cabaye who looks disinterested and pissed off with the world.
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Comment #56Rotanda
The only other legitimate centre forward is Shola and he isn’t good enough. Gouffran is a number 10 or a inside forward. We haven’t got enough strikers. That is not up for debate.
Oldgit1
May 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Comment #57I would think that when ashley told AP that there was no further signings in the summer, AP would have said” look you fat bastard my reputation is on the line and one purple player is not enough. I believe he just said ” yes sir three bags full sir. AP lacked guts to stand up to the fat controller and got himself into this mess. I shouted and screamed that buisness during the summer was not enough to help the team, as many of the supporters on this site agreed, so if we can see it why can’t they. I have supported this team for over 60 yrs, so can see what is needed but the do the opposite
, always. Get AP out as soon as this season is over.
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Comment #58ernest
i guess you didn’t hear the ”you don’t know what you’re doing” chants at home to reading.
you could knock ashley a while back but the utter implosion in the last month has pardew’s name all over it as per west ham and chalton and the low morale he left at southampton
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Comment #59name: ernest
specialist subject:- missing the point repeatedly
beefman13
May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Comment #60Hemingway, we will agree to disagree or it can get in to a war on here, but I would say I know still the majority don’t like MA but ask 50,000 if they are happy with Alan Pardew and the vast majority again would say they are not.
Thump
May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Comment #61Sounds a bit like a potential “come and get me” to me…
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Comment #62Rotonda
If that’s what you believe, good for you. I respect your opinion. I don’t think any manager could be in charge of Newcastle under Ashley and be successful long term.
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Comment #63arsenal had 9 french players and a french manager when they won the double,
no one cares where the players come from as long as the manager is getting the best out of them.
daztoon-anti christ is that the time
May 6, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Comment #64Ian Toon posted yesterday on the line of Pardew is going nowhere so support the toon and get used to it.Thats the problem supporters like him just accepting the shite and that’s why we have an owner and manager who know they can do what they like, because most just accept it and the love for the toon leaves them blinkered to reality
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Comment #65Beefman
That is the way adults do things, agree to disagree without belittling other peoples point of view.
Mike Ashley is the cancer at Newcastle, in my opinion.
headtheball
May 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Comment #66Rotonda @59
You should be on a comedy circuit.
That two liner is a classic.
Comedic genius.
Beattie25
May 6, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Comment #67Ernest Hemingway
For one who has stolen the name of a noble price winning author you don’t half talk utter shite.
ErnestHemingway
May 6, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Comment #68Rotando
Yes,they did, which is why I mentioned in my previous post you need either players who have come up through the academy or foreigners who have bought into the club. Henry, Berkamp et al did exactly that. Henry became captain and record goalscorer and Berkamp has a statue outside the Emirates.
I don’t miss the point. But you just did.
catchy in norway
May 6, 2013 at 1:05 PM
Comment #69Thump
100%
shop window, im free
lol
Lilongwe Geordie
May 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Comment #70Ernest,
On your point about the squad needing identity and a core through the academy, this is something Ashley is trying to put in place. It doesn’t happen overnight. In the meantime you bring in players of sufficient calibre.
The failing at the minute is that none of the coaching staff can develop a player, except our staff working with kids from 14/15 to 17/18. After that they disappear.
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Comment #71ernest
if pardew was a consistently good manager which he patently is not, there is no way we would be in this position.
yes ashley was reactive rather than pro, but we still had half a season left and half the current French national team!!
You just know a competent manager would not have us in this mess playing football with fear all the time.
People say pardew is experienced in this position, but you have to ask yourself why – because he has all but relegated 3 different teams.
yes Ashley is far from ideal, but a trained chimp could do a better job than Pardew the gimp.
solano
May 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Comment #72Rotonda@58 -you are right, Patsy should have got a lot more out of what he got but it doesn’t matter which way you look at it, responsibility lies at the very top. The same people who introduced this crazy ‘planning’ – the same people who were willing to write off nearly 5 and a half months of a season because they didn’t want to progress. They will still be very reluctant to rid themselves of Pardew, because it will be very difficult to find anyone so compliant. But I think it is inevitable he will go to buy them more time.
Stay up or get relegated – there’ll be loads of players jumping ship and the merry go round will start again. If we stay up and our bestest leave – Ashley and Del will be quite happy as it’s more money for them on top of the tv windfall.
It’s a totally unacceptable situation and it was created by putting a Patsy up as frontman for a plan that is utterly against the interests of the genuine football fan.
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Comment #73head the ball
I try my best !!!
stuart no9
May 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Comment #74spotlight @ 40—i do agree that the” selling” part of any deals comes from , as you say , upstairs, however, i have to think that any ” new recruits” that are brought in are purely down to carr and pardew.
The way i think it would work , and this is OMO, pardew would identify the areas where we need strengthening . Carr would have a shortlist of possibilities , then pardew would pick his option from the list. that would then go up stairs to be dealt with. , i dont think ash or lambs would have the knowledge to pick a player that would fit into pardews plans ( if he had any )
Toon Tang
May 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM
Comment #75reading between the lines, cabaye’s saying – “we’re going down, any potential new employers out there, i am looking to remain in the prem. So come and get me”
say what ya see, if ya see it, say it
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Comment #76solano
I am not totally averse to what you and jail are saying at all re ashley.
But regardless of who’s at the top, somehow or other and god knows how we have managed to attract quite a considerable pool of talent which pardew is systematically mishandling.
Beattie25
May 6, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Comment #77Need payers who ave come up through the academy:
Man Utd:
De Gea – Athletico Madrid
Rafeal – Fluminese
Rio Ferdinand – West Ham
Nemanja Vidic – Red Star Belgrade
Patrice Evra – PSG
Nani – Sporting
Michael Carrick – West Ham
Anderson – Gremio
Giggs – Man Utd
Rooney – Eveton
Van Persie – Feyenord
Man City
Hart – Shewsbury
Zabaleta – San Lorenzo
Kompnay – Anderecht
Nastasic – Partizan
Clichy – Arsenal
Nasri – Marsaille
Toure – Beveren
Barry – Villa
Silva – Valencia
Aguero – Independiente
Tevez – Boca
Shall I go on??
catchy in norway
May 6, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Comment #78Rotonda heights
i agree
we have the talent,
its not playing for peedew
Spotlight Kid
May 6, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Comment #79RH@76
I’ll second that….
Rotonda heights
May 6, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Comment #80cheers spotlight