Alan Pardew happy to have sold 11 goal striker: “Dwight Gayle is a great signing for Newcastle, and the money we got we used to buy Christian Benteke.”

As he waits for his Crystal Palace deal to go through, Alan Pardew says “I wanted to take Christian Benteke to Newcastle.”

It isn’t just £16m and £10m players Newcastle have wasted money on, we’ve signed plenty of players who were a total waste of money at £6m (Barton, Smith etc.) and even players who cost nothing(!), such as Viduka and Geremi.