Under Mike Ashley, Newcastle have done what Arsenal have consistently done in building several great sides over the years with Arsene Wenger, and that is they have recruited from France, where the value for money of players is good, and both wages and transfer fees are less than if the Magpies recruited in Britain, where English players often come at a significant premium.
Alan Pardew – wants more British based players
But Alan Pardew has said for some time now, that he wants more British based players in the squad, and maybe he will get his way in the summer, and it’s likely that several Frenchmen could be leaving the club.
Frenchmen who could leave in the summer include Loic Remy, Gabby Obertan, Sylvain Marveaux and Romain Amalfitano, who just hasn’t made any impact at Newcastle and is on loan for the season at Dijon, while his older brother Morgan has gone in the other direction, and is on loan from Marseilles to West Brom.
And Newcastle could even unload Ben Arfa, who has not had a good season on Tyneside – so it’s possible Newcastle could unload five Frenchmen in the summer, but then we would have to replace them.
Pardew has spoken of wanting more British players in his squad:
“A lot of the French players we’ve introduced because of market forces,” “Arsene Wenger’s first port of call when he arrived here was the same reason, he thought he got better value.” “I’m very disappointed not to have more British-based players in my team.”
“I want more British-based players but I’m certainly not going to argue with the French contingent we’ve got.” “They’ve been absolutely brilliant. This is a world market.”
“We have made our point within the club, that we don’t really want to buy any players from abroad.”
Graham Carr is Newcastle’s Chief Scout, and he has been regularly scouting in France for most of the season, so it remains to be seen if Newcastle can bring in some British based players over the summer.
But in the past the club has balked on the high transfer fees and wages required by those players, and let’s be honest – Mike Ashley has never been known to be loose with Newcastle’s money, since he bought the club in June, 2007.
What do you think?
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100 comments so far
spitfire_
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:34 AM
Comment #1In other words “so long” to Cabella or Grenier and welcome to Mark Noble.
jazzyp
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM
Comment #2Talk is cheap.We will be looking at loan signings again and free players like Bafe and Aaron hunt while stripping our club of more assets like Hba.
More profit for Mike……What a business man he is
Belfast
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM
Comment #3And Jay Spearing Spitfire
toon1707
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Comment #4Unfortunately there are no decent English players that fit into our transfer structure unless we start buying from the conference
catchy in norway
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Comment #5LMFAO
now i see it, this treatment of HBA and marv is a demonstration,
he is trying to force a point,
what an idiot
Markaccus
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:40 AM
Comment #6Please remember people, we do actuall need to have some home growns in the squad. We should keep it to the bare minimum at the moment though, as they are over priced and under skilled.
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Comment #7Belfast…shitty to say the least!
jazzyp
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:43 AM
Comment #8Catchy
God natt pal. Straight talking as always I see lol
Zambiantoon
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:44 AM
Comment #9HBA started off the season brilliantly until Pardew benched him
catchy in norway
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Comment #10tom ince was available
future Egland international, just needs the right coach, not a bad price,
some how i dont see Ashley spending 10 million ( or more now the new tv money has kicked in) on 1 unproven player, when he can go abroad and spend less for proven international quality,
it goes against his business ethos , his whole idea in everything is buy cheap
dont see it happening
catchy in norway
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Comment #11jesper
yes it was a huge shake up 😉
welshgeordie9
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:46 AM
Comment #12I bet you if pardew was the manager of Celtic he still wouldn’t win anything, then another record would be broken.
welshgeordie9
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:49 AM
Comment #13I know newcastle said pardew won’t be sacked if we lose today, but he must go today if for some reason we let in 3 maybe 4 goals in.
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:50 AM
Comment #14It’s either Carr or Pardew!
…I know where I stand 😉
“We have made our point within the club, that we don’t really want to buy any players from abroad.”
So basically Pardew want us to sign 7-10 players from the EPL or the lower leagues?
Who is going to pay for that I might ask! lol
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM
Comment #15welsh…this season is over and there is nothing to play for basically…but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something else at stake if you know what I mean 😉
jarnytoon
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:54 AM
Comment #16They didn’t say they wouldnt still buy young so I reckon bids for Ince, Zaha if he gets no game at manure, caulker if (when) cardiff go down. Summer should be interesting!
On a seperate note, 3-1 toon today I reckon
jazzyp
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:55 AM
Comment #17Jesper
Ince-BafeAnd hunt are three players available for nothing and would replace Obershocker-Strolla and Gutti.
definite upgrades for nothing and good business sense would you agree
mindshaft
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM
Comment #18Great – let’s have some overpriced average English players to go alongside Saylor
Himanshu Dhingra
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM
Comment #19Can’t see us scoring !
0-0 is the best I am hoping
toonarmydownsouth
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:58 AM
Comment #20Catchy
Ince is a free transfer in the summer, he’s at palace to showcase himself in the top flight as he was 100% guaranteed to play
The he plays the more the demand there is and the higher the wages he can demand
toonarmydownsouth
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Comment #21Reckon LDJ and Remy could click today
3-0 to the toon!
Markaccus
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Comment #22On Ince…
Probably the exception to the rule. He does look a decent player, and doesnt seem over priced.
Not sure about Zaha. Looked good at palace but so would a dead dog! He is overpriced for sure.
Markaccus
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:01 AM
Comment #23Ah well, free eh? Deffo just within ashleys price range 😀
Markaccus
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Comment #24Jazzy p
Obershocker could be replaced with a piano.
Markaccus
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:04 AM
Comment #25A piano, just sitting there wide right. Being totally ineffective and pointless. Completely irrelevant to the game…..just like obertan
Blackley and Brownlie
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Comment #26The French players have been absolutely brilliant for sure. But we don’t really want to buy any players from abroad, if I’m honest. We’ve lost games because we haven’t shown the right attitude at times, a little bit.
It was the players fault, but not the foreign players fault because they’ve been terrific but we’ve needed British spirit to win games and we haven’t got enough of it in this squad if I’m honest.
We’ve been making this point within the club that if we lose its not my fault but the fault of the foreign lads, a little bit. But we don’t blame them because they’ve been absolutely brilliant and probably the pick of the bunch, if I’m honest. We’ve missed yohan, a big big player for us, massive, for sure. So we don’t blame the french for not having that British mentality that just gives you that extra edge that you need in this league, 100%.
We’ve went down the french route because its been good business for this club, great business and mike has done wonders on that front so its great credit to mike. But when we’re looking for a reason to explain our poor results, we come back to this, 100%, if I’m honest, a little bit.
Slank
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM
Comment #27I think the scoreline will be at least 3:0 to us. Colo, Tiote and Remy will make all the difference. I expect the lads to come out all guns firing.
If you believe in ‘horses for courses’ then Villa will be put to the sword. And the Villa fans know this and fear the worst.
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:12 AM
Comment #28“Newcastle To Change Direction In Transfer Market”
yeah down
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Comment #29jazzyp…didn’t Pardew just say he wants to buy British?
…Ince is the only British player of those three right?
check the toastie
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Comment #30If Losing every game for the rest of this season would mean Pardew being sacked it is the price i would be happy to pay.
PARDEW OUT….
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:17 AM
Comment #31I think today’s game will be boring ( well we play boring anyway ) both teams out of form, Villa have more fight in them more than us, so I think Villa will come at us second half.
scoreline prediction I will go 2-1 to Villa but if was a different manager than Pardew i’ll go 3-0
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:18 AM
Comment #32check the toastie
don’t say that mate, I said that a few weeks ago and I got nothing but sh!t
catchy in norway
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:21 AM
Comment #33check
me to
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:22 AM
Comment #34I know reports have said that Pardew won’t be sacked if we lose today ( which i’m gutted about ) but if Villa win by 3-4-5 goals I think he will be gone
Rotonda heights
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Comment #35Of course pardew sickeningly gets a cut from player sales, extremely unethical that.
More english players = bents, Tomkins and Nobles. Nailed on mid-table mediocrity for years to come.
pardew had a real chance to work and develop our squad but has blown it spectacularly.
Saw real Sociedad beat Barcelona last night. Griezeman and vela were superb. the movement on and off the ball was stunning. None of this containing BS.
Think we will in today but only because saylor should hopefully get dropped and villa are s–t.
Rotonda heights
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM
Comment #36welsh
if pardew was manager of city or barcelona no way would they score 4 goals a game
catchy in norway
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM
Comment #37bw
you only get crap from blind ignorant fans that only love moan about how bad the old days where
trust me in 10-20 years time , these same will look back and wow if you think this is bad , you should have seen the crap we watched under pardew
they will say , in a 3 year period he set so many new worst records, they will all look back and say we tried to get him out
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Comment #38catchy in norway
yeah true mate but the sickening thing is most of these daft tw@ts are the ones that turn up to every game
jimmysmith
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM
Comment #39Pardew gets a cut if we sell a player on for a profit.
Source?
Black and White with an army lol
Feb 23, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Comment #40is the club up for sale for 250 million? surely if this is true loads of billionaires would jump to that chance