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.
ALAN PARDEWIf 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.
ALAN PARDEWI don’t like people who drain my time and energy.
ALAN PARDEWI 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.
ALAN PARDEWYou feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.
ALAN PARDEWIt’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
ALAN PARDEWSo we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.
ALAN PARDEWI 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.
ALAN PARDEWEmirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.
ALAN PARDEWThese difficult periods come and you have to accept that.
ALAN PARDEWIf you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.
ALAN PARDEWYou 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.
ALAN PARDEWI tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
ALAN PARDEWWe struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.
ALAN PARDEWYou have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
ALAN PARDEWThey were great days, great nights at St James’ Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.
ALAN PARDEWIt affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.
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