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Hatem Ben Arfa is ready to give Alan Pardew a headache by refusing to leave Newcastle United.

 

The French midfielder returned to pre-season training this week to find he is still not allowed to train with the senior squad.

 

The 27-year-old and fellow outcast Sylvain Marveaux were told to work with development players as the club looks to sell.

 

Ben Arfa is available for as little as £3million, but is prepared to sit tight and see out the final year of his contract with the Magpies rather than be forced to leave.

 

Pardew is facing an uncertain pre-season, with full-back Mathieu Debuchy on his way to Arsenal and midfielder Moussa Sissoko ready to seek a fresh challenge.

 

Defender Steven Taylor, frozen out for much of last season, is also adamant he will not walk away, despite there being an appetite to sell him with his contract running out next summer.

 

Midfielder Mehdi Abeid, who was loaned out last season and enjoyed success at ­Panathinaikos, has also returned as the Greeks are unable to afford a permanent switch.

 

As well as Marveaux, whose performances have never convinced Pardew, Gabriel Obertan is back in training when a transfer away had been expected.

 

A failure to clear the decks of unwanted players has at least given Pardew a squad to select from for next week’s friendly at Oldham - although progress is needed on signing another striker and an attacking midfielder.

 

Newcastle will make a fresh move for ­long-standing midfield target Remy Cabella – of Montpellier and France – this week.

 

 

 

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Newcastle will make a fresh move for ­long-standing midfield target Remy Cabella – of Montpellier and France – this week.

 

...nice to see us taking our time. we will not be rushed

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If it's true they're making him train with the youth squad and not the first team it's absolutely embarrassing. Pardew is supposed to be managing the side not acting like a petty little schoolboy, a good manager would bring the lad back into the fold and find a place for him (even if he decides not to start him) making a lad who is, I assume, earning 40-50k a week train with 17 year olds is pathetic.

I understand Ben Arfa is probably difficult to work with at times but this is the blokes job ffs, manage him, it's not like he's a repeat criminal offender or anything like that at worst he's seemingly just a bit lazy/unmotivated and maybe mouthy. I think it is to Ben Arfa's credit that he has come back to training and is just getting on with it, dumping players that don't fit your plan into the youth team training sessions wont exactly endear the club to outside players etc either.

Pardew should put himself into the reserves as well for his shambolic performance last season the fucking tosser.

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If it's true they're making him train with the youth squad and not the first team it's absolutely embarrassing.

 

 

 

They trained on the beach with over 23 lads and he was not one of them.

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Hatem Ben Arfa is ready to give Alan Pardew a headache by refusing to leave Newcastle United.

 

The French midfielder returned to pre-season training this week to find he is still not allowed to train with the senior squad.

 

The 27-year-old and fellow outcast Sylvain Marveaux were told to work with development players as the club looks to sell.

 

Ben Arfa is available for as little as £3million, but is prepared to sit tight and see out the final year of his contract with the Magpies rather than be forced to leave.

 

Pardew is facing an uncertain pre-season, with full-back Mathieu Debuchy on his way to Arsenal and midfielder Moussa Sissoko ready to seek a fresh challenge.

 

Defender Steven Taylor, frozen out for much of last season, is also adamant he will not walk away, despite there being an appetite to sell him with his contract running out next summer.

 

Midfielder Mehdi Abeid, who was loaned out last season and enjoyed success at ­Panathinaikos, has also returned as the Greeks are unable to afford a permanent switch.

 

As well as Marveaux, whose performances have never convinced Pardew, Gabriel Obertan is back in training when a transfer away had been expected.

 

A failure to clear the decks of unwanted players has at least given Pardew a squad to select from for next week’s friendly at Oldham - although progress is needed on signing another striker and an attacking midfielder.

 

Newcastle will make a fresh move for ­long-standing midfield target Remy Cabella – of Montpellier and France – this week.

 

 

 

 

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Quite a bit of deadwood there to be cleared away isn't there? Finding decent fees in a dead market is quite difficult to do. Yada, yada, yada, cut losses.

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They cannot claim a dead market.

 

There's over £200m been spent already with 2 months to go.

 

Last summer saw a record £630m spent in total which was £130m more than the previous record from 2008. That's going to get blown away IYAM.

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They cannot claim a dead market.

They can if the players in question are shonks.

 

I can't argue with the figures you've put up other than to say the top tier of players is growing and so too their values.

 

And it is a message to players wanting to come to Newcastle - do not bother coming if you are rough diamonds, no matter the level of your technical ability. You won't be polished up. ;)

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He'll be fat as fuck Ant, I love him too but that doesn't excuse the condition he's been in over the past season and a half.

 

Time to cut our losses, sad to say. Pardew can't manage him, he's not disciplined enough to do what needs doing on his own, so it's not going to work out here. If Pardew'd been replaced over the summer I could see it.

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