Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things.
ALAN PARDEWSo we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.
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Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.
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You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.
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I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that’s for sure.
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You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent.
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They were great days, great nights at St James’ Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.
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So we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.
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You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
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If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.
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It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
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It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.
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Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final.
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I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.
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You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to.
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Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That’s the reality, even if some don’t want to admit it.
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