Pardew though is happy to keep raising the expectation of fans because he isn’t the automatic pantomime clown any longer, we now have somebody in that role and the club didn’t even have to buy him a new outfit for the part.

Alan Pardew has been particularly commended for his contribution in helping United to be invited to compete at such a high level.

So…logic says that if signings are going to happen, the deals will already be in the pipeline, and the question would be then if that is the case why not sign them NOW instead of waiting until we’ve lost our first few matches?
Of course we do have the option of repeating last year’s farce and wait until January, that plan worked out really well didn’t it?!!!