If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.
ALAN PARDEWUntil 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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When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.
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You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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I have had situations in the past when you are close to signing a player and the money involved switches from euros to pounds to dollars. It is a difficult process, but one we have to work with.
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If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.
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You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.
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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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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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Thursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League.
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It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
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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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It’s almost like he has Dr. Who’s Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)
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We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.
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Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.
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Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things.
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You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.
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