Newcastle United's manager, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-c4244 Pardew has revealed that starting his playing career in a non-league team has helped him develop as a manager.
The 50 year old took over management of the club in December 2010 and helped the Magpies finish in the 12th place in the league, back then. The Englishman has enjoyed tremendous success since his arrival. Currently, Newcastle are placed 5th
in the Premier League table, with five more games to play.
Pardew, who used to work as a glazier, played non-league football in the earlier part of his career. He made 128 appearances for Crystal Palace from 1987 to 1991, and played an important role in their promotion to the top flight, in 1989.
However, the Englishman mentioned that working as a glazier and to have played non-league football, had helped him in the long run. He explained that he came across people from different walks of life, which helped him in learning how to deal with divergent
people and situations.
While talking to reporters, he said “You might have a company chief executive and a dustbin man playing side-by-side in the same non-league team, so you come across many characters from different walks of life whereas in professional football, you have football-focused
individuals who have based most of their upbringing on football because it was going to be their career from day one.”
Pardew had to contend with a tight budget under the club’s new owner Mike Ashley, who vowed to make Newcastle United a self sustaining organization. Despite financial constraints, he was able to land a number of star players like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Demba-Ba-c10812, Papiss Cisse and
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Hatem-Ben-Arfa-c15884 at the Sports Direct Arena.
Last year, he sold Andy Carroll to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809, for a club record transfer fee of about 35 million pounds. He admitted that the fans had apprehensions over some of the decisions undertaken by the club in the last two years, most notably the renaming of the
stadium from Saint James Park to Sports Direct Arena.
Pardew indicated that the current policy of the Magpies involved spending a minimal budget in signing new players and put forward the examples of Portsmouth and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rangers-c40314, claiming that lavish spending had resulted in their degeneration.
“At Newcastle, we have got a good foundation and a good financial model, and now the question is whether we can bring success within that model. That's the challenge that I accepted when I joined the club.”
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