Alan Pardew; “One or two of the younger players need to improve. They haven’t produced what I wanted, so they are going to have to work harder or will have to leave”.
There are reports this morning that Newcastle United are one of the clubs to suffer the blow of failing to achieve the top grade under the new four-tier Premier League system for youth development.
Who has progressed through the ranks and is not a signing who we have paid money for and therefore just ‘has’ to be played? Tim Krul and Steven Taylor another but really over the last 6 or 7 years that is seriously rubbish.