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Alan Pardew - "what I learnt along the way"

PL54
PL54 Posts: 10,757
In The Times today and sincere apologies if it on here elsewhere (I checked the first 3 pages) or if it upsets anyone.

Basically he didn't know what a mess we were in post relegation and that we lacked ambition....I did type the full (albeit brief) quote earlier but it didn't save.....
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  • News Shopper
    News Shopper Posts: 1,841
    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,801
    Anyone got a link to this shambles? What a grade 1 arsehole.

    1) We were in as steady position as anyone can be post-relegation with the payments and the Bent / Young money.... reinvest that well and you've got a couple of seasons to get us back and all is a-okay, doing fine thanks
    2) He must've had one of the biggest budgets in the division that first season back down so how can he say we lacked ambition.

    You slimy Palace w*nker, shame on me for ever singing your name.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318

    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.

    Bloody hell... We were his 3rd job... If he was coming to Charlton as a brand new Manager then I might agree with him but surely he should have requested media training @ Reading or West Ham!!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    edited May 2015

    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.

    Bloody hell... We were his 3rd job... If he was coming to Charlton as a brand new Manager then I might agree with him but surely he should have requested media training @ Reading or West Ham!!
    Too busy keeping the skeletons in th closet.
  • Bubble
    Bubble Posts: 1,541
    He's complete lack of accountability never ceases to astound me
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    "I had no media training and didn't understand why people were attacking me."

    Us being bottom of the table, and losing every week when we should have been challenging for promotion should have been a clue.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    Spending millions on rubbish players then filling the team up with rubbish loans might be a good place to start when he puts a career summary into the media training centre....
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,983
    I think it's quite funny that the one blot on his managerial copybook is his time at Charlton. And unless he invents a time machine, there's nowt he can do about it.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    He really is a prize tit
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  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048

    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.

    Bloody hell... We were his 3rd job... If he was coming to Charlton as a brand new Manager then I might agree with him but surely he should have requested media training @ Reading or West Ham!!
    Too buy keeping the skeletons in th closet.
    Seemed to be able to handle that side of the media pretty bloody well didn't he!!
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    He is so arrogant it is unbelieveble. It's not is only blot on his copybook. West Ham in the relegation places despite having a lot of dosh spend; including deciding Tevez and Mascerano weren't good enough - laughable. Also not getting Southampton anywhere near the playoffs despite having biggest budget in division by along way.
  • It wasn't my fault we was relegated and played shit, it was the fact I did not get the right media training.

    Ok Big Nose, whatever.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    We can but hope that Palace implode under his influence next season.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048
    edited May 2015

    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.

    NS...not sure whether the story has changed, but this is the on-line version now. The comments about media training/savvy are in the WHam section, not ours.

    What he learnt along the way

    Reading

    “I didn’t really have too many failures. I was building an exciting young team and enjoying coaching and naively thinking that’s what’s going to happen for the rest of my career.”

    West Ham United

    “It was learning about the media, what the media wanted. I was naive with the media: I had no training and I didn’t understand why people were attacking me. I learnt you couldn’t win all the time. I already had a thick skin but it started to thicken up at West Ham. I learnt about the politics of football and they were one of the reasons I left.”

    Charlton Athletic

    “I learnt the impact of relegation, which I had inherited. I wasn’t told how big an impact that would be. I was slightly deceived by the agenda.”

    Southampton

    “I like to think I set some good things in motion. Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all went on to have great England success. I learnt that the relationship with the chairman is important.”

    Newcastle United

    “I was well armed. I am always confident I can make teams better. The club had just been promoted and they wanted a different approach. They didn’t want to sign older players such as Michael Owen. I learnt that you have to show strength and dignity.”


    I take it that he learnt so much about the impact of relegation with us he thought he'd do his best to drag us through it again! Our Holloway!!
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Didn't realise he wanted to sign Michael Owen for the Toon. What a prize kn*b.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    there's a thin line between exuding an air of arrogant, yet dignified confidence (Mourinho) to that of just continually coming across as a conceited bell end.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Valley11 said:

    I think it's quite funny that the one blot on his managerial copybook is his time at Charlton. And unless he invents a time machine, there's nowt he can do about it.

    Southampton was definitely a 'blot' on the copybook. With the money they spent that year, they should have been in the playoffs, regardless of points deduction.

    West Ham also ended badly for him.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    I am usually fairly level headed. But I have only to hear his voice or see his big nosed face and I have an urge to punch his lights out.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    He says "I learnt that you have to show strength and dignity.”

    Very dignified when he had that spat with Pellegrini and you could lip read him saying "F*ck off you old c*nt".

    A great lesson in dignity.



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  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    I like him.
  • masicat said:

    I like him.

    Each to their own. Would be interested to know what you like about him?
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008

    masicat said:

    I like him.

    Each to their own. Would be interested to know what you like about him?
    Will now fuck Palace as a club once and for all.

    Yep, I like him.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    When pardont was at Reading I had a few jobs there and was shown around the ground by the sports science guy, he rated pardont really highly but always said not as highly As he rated himself

    Said that pardont had also said on many occasions he wanted to manage charlton


  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    Didnt egg head call him a cancer in the dressing room?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    He did,
  • Hovi's Biscuit
    Hovi's Biscuit Posts: 1,717
    LenGlover said:

    We can but hope that Palace implode under his influence next season.

    It will all come out in the wash. He is stain on football's underpants!
  • News Shopper
    News Shopper Posts: 1,841
    TelMc32 said:

    There were also some extremely laughable comments on not being given proper media training by Charlton and how he was naive about how to deal with the media while at the club.

    As someone who was there I would strongly disagree - he was extremely media savvy and arrived from West Ham with lots of media training.

    NS...not sure whether the story has changed, but this is the on-line version now. The comments about media training/savvy are in the WHam section, not ours.

    What he learnt along the way

    Reading

    “I didn’t really have too many failures. I was building an exciting young team and enjoying coaching and naively thinking that’s what’s going to happen for the rest of my career.”

    West Ham United

    “It was learning about the media, what the media wanted. I was naive with the media: I had no training and I didn’t understand why people were attacking me. I learnt you couldn’t win all the time. I already had a thick skin but it started to thicken up at West Ham. I learnt about the politics of football and they were one of the reasons I left.”

    Charlton Athletic

    “I learnt the impact of relegation, which I had inherited. I wasn’t told how big an impact that would be. I was slightly deceived by the agenda.”

    Southampton

    “I like to think I set some good things in motion. Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all went on to have great England success. I learnt that the relationship with the chairman is important.”

    Newcastle United

    “I was well armed. I am always confident I can make teams better. The club had just been promoted and they wanted a different approach. They didn’t want to sign older players such as Michael Owen. I learnt that you have to show strength and dignity.”


    I take it that he learnt so much about the impact of relegation with us he thought he'd do his best to drag us through it again! Our Holloway!!
    I was going on what was posted here http://addickschampionshipdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/pardew-was-deceived-at-charlton.html which made it look like he was talking about Charlton.

    I'm glad it is now clear he was talking about West Ham because it was the suggestion he wasn't media aware enough by the time he arrived at Charlton which I found incredulous.

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    So, he reckons he was right, and Charlton Athletic as a long established club were wrong? Excuse me, he used to play for us, if he had anything about him he could easily have got up to speed on any aspect of the club he was unsure about.
    I believe we were decieved in thinking he was any good, he landed here, sucked the remainder of our resources dry, bullied staff with his ascerbic tongue and arrogant attitude, and failed miserably.
    His touchline behaviour alone at Newcastle reveals more about his character than his self delusion when he reports on his experience here. Newcastle fans, West Ham, Southampton and us are all wrong are we Alan?
    Look in the mirror, you are riding the wave of a team already mostly assembled, at a poxy club that isn't close to sorting out it's stadium issues, and you're going to blow all their money on your latest vanity project. The amazing thing is you keep getting away with it Alan. In my opinion you are a deeply flawed character and sadly one day you won't get what's coming, because you have exploited your very limited ability to become a multi millionaire.
    You are the perfect example as to why life is unfair.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    If Palace give him money, he will destroy them like he did us. Rein him in like Ashley did and they might get somewhere with him.