Is the Alan Pardew contract now looking well deserved? On the Newcastle United rollercoaster, Rhys Melhuish wonders if we are scaling the heights again.
…inside knowledge and that if Pardew was sacked then he would get the full contract paid up, an amount they estimate at the moment being £10m. This is based an understanding that our manager is getting £1.5m a year.
The question has once again arisen about the eight year contract and how it would work if Mike Ashley decided to wield the axe, whether Newcastle stay up or not. There’s been a wide range of opinions/guesstimates as to what any pay-off would be in reality.
The only way to put down long-term foundations is by actions and that means backing Alan Pardew and Graham Carr’s recommendations in recruiting players to help take the club forward.
