Back On Form ... After Leaving Newcastle!

Last updated : 10 October 2014 By Footy Mad - Editor

... why can't Alan Pardew get the best out of highly regarded Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa?

He signed for Newcastle in January 2013 from French club Montpellier for £6.7 million, arriving with the reputation of being one of the best defenders in the French League.

Some players are suited to certain clubs ...

But, having spent most of his Premier League career playing at RIGH-BACK for Pardew, the central defender is back on form having moved to Italy.

So much so, he has been called up for France's friendly against Portugal, confirming his fine form for Roma

He earned plaudits for his display at Manchester City in the Champions League, when he helped the Italian club to a draw at the Etihad.

Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa: “It is the aim of every player to wear the national team shirt, especially when we have already done so.

“You must also keep hope, confidence in yourself and be aware of your capacities. Afterwards, it will depend on what I can achieve with AS Roma where I have come to to win titles.”

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Pardew - We Need To Make Changes!

With Alan Pardew admitting his current crop of new signings are not as good as those before, United may need to change their recruitment policy.

Time for change?

Alan Pardew (talking to the Chronicle): "Our policy here has been the same since I’ve been at the club – we have bought players we think have good market value and that means mainly the younger players.

"I’ve had to deal with younger players and some have been massively successful and some haven’t. At the moment we are not having as much success as we’ve had.

"We’ve produced some fantastic players for this club and we need to start producing a few more.

"I didn’t think we were strong enough in the last part of the season and that’s been held against me that I’ve been making excuses, but I just felt that we needed more and we didn’t have it after the loss of (Yohan) Cabaye.

"This club needs big players because we are a big scalp for any team.
 
"Forget where we are in the league. We need big players and our big players need to stand up.

"We also need to create more big players and that’s what we are trying to do."

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Stats Against Pardew Fending Off Relegation?

Stats can be produced to prove anything, and the Evening Chronicle is ready to dig up quite a few in their long running battle with Alan Pardew.

The Chronicle, banned from the St James' Park press room, comes up with the stat that 62% of teams with less than four points after seven games go down.


 
Chronicle: "Alan Pardew is now battling the history books if he is get the Magpies out of their early-season mess.

"The Chronicle has pored over the history books to pick out Premier League trends, and the outlook is not great for teams that have just four points after seven games.

"Thirteen of the clubs banking four points or fewer after seven games went on to go down – a whopping 62%.

"Eight stayed up but here is where it gets really interesting for United fans urging the club to learn from Premier League history.

"Only TWO of the 21 who have started as badly as United this year have stayed up by sticking with their manager – and FIVE of the eight who stayed up took evasive action before the month of October and changed bosses to keep them up."

Mind you, with Sunderland rooted at the bottom of the Premier League last Christmas, the same newspaper quoted West Brom as the only Premiership team to have survived in the same position.

That's not saying we at NU-Mad are rooting for Pardew to stay.

Far from it.

Four years in the job, have we improved under his management?

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Newcastle Utd Fixtures ...

2014/15 SEASON


  
Sunday August 17
NEWCASTLE 0 MAN CITY 2
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Colback, Anita (63' Obertan), Cabella, Sissoko, Gouffran (74' Aarons), Riviere (83' Perez).
Subs: Haidara, Elliot, S Taylor, Abeid 

Saturday August 23 
ASTON VILLA 0 NEWCASTLE 0
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Anita (70' de Jong), Colback, Cabella, Sissoko, Gouffran, Riviere (77' Perez - 90+2' S Taylor).
Subs: Haidara, Elliot, Obertan, Abeid 

Tuesday August 26
LC GILLINGHAM 0 NEWCASTLE 1 (Egan OG)
Krul, Janmaat, Coloccini, S Taylor, Haidara, Sissoko, Abeid, Obertan, de Jong (68' Perez), Aarons (60' Cabella), Riviere (86' Gouffran)
Subs: Anita, Ferreyra, Elliot, Dummett

Saturday August 30 
NEWCASTLE 3 CRYSTAL PALACE 3 (Janmaat, Aarons, Williamson)
Krul, Janmaat (79' Perez), Williamson, Coloccini, Haidara, Sissoko, Colback, Cabella, de Jong (79' Anita), Gouffran (67' Aarons), Riviere
Subs: Elliot, Obertan, S Taylor, Dummett

Saturday September 13 
SOUTHAMPTON 4 NEWCASTLE 0 
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita (45' Tiote), Colback, Cabella (69' Perez), Sissoko (90'Ameobi), Gouffran, Riviere    
Subs: Elliot, Obertan, S Taylor, Armstrong 

Saturday September 20 
NEWCASTLE 2 HULL CITY (Cisse 2) 
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Tiote (85' Ameobi), Colback, Sissoko, Cabella, Gouffran (90+4' Perez), Riviere (69' Cisse)
Subs: Anita, Haidara, Elliot, S Taylor 

Wednesday September 24 
LC CRYSTAL PALACE 2 NEWCASTLE 3 AET (Riviere 2, Dummett) 
Elliot, Janmaat (46 Haidara), Coloccini, S Taylor, Dummett, Colback, Abeid, Obertan, Armstrong, Ameobi (66 Sissoko), Riviere (80 Perez)
Subs: Anita, Ferreyra, Cabella, Alnwick

Monday September 29 
STOKE CITY 1 NEWCASTLE 0 
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Tiote, Colback, Sissoko, Cabella (74' Ameobi), Gouffran (68' Obertan), Riviere (45' Cisse)
Subs: Anita, Elliot, S Taylor, Armstrong

Saturday October 4 
SWANSEA CITY 2 NEWCASTLE 2 (Cisse 2) 
Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Obertan, Tiote, Sissoko, Colback (69' Riviere), Gouffran (58' Ameobi), Cisse (85' Perez).
Subs: Anita, Haidara, Cabella, Elliot   

Saturday October 18 
Newcastle United v Leicester City

Saturday October 25 
Tottenham v Newcastle United

Saturday November 1 
Newcastle United v Liverpool

Sunday November 9
West Brom v Newcastle United

Saturday November 22 
Newcastle United v QPR

Saturday November 29 
West Ham United v Newcastle United

Tuesday December 2 
Burnley v Newcastle United

Saturday December 6 
Newcastle United v Chelsea

Saturday December 13 
Arsenal v Newcastle United

Sunday December 21 
Newcastle United v Sunderland

Friday December 26 
Man Utd v Newcastle United

Sunday December 28 
Newcastle United v Everton

Thursday January 1 2015 
Newcastle United v Burnley

Saturday January 10 2015 
Chelsea v Newcastle United

Saturday January 17 2015 
Newcastle United v Southampton

Saturday January 31 2015 
Hull City v Newcastle United

Saturday February 7 2015 
Newcastle United v Stoke City

Tuesday February 10 2015 
Crystal Palace v Newcastle United

Saturday February 21 2015 
Manchester City v Newcastle United

Saturday February 28 2015 
Newcastle United v Aston Villa

Wednesday March 4 2015 
Newcastle United v Man Utd

Saturday March 14 2015 
Everton v Newcastle United

Saturday March 21 2015 
Newcastle United v Arsenal

Saturday April 4 2015 
Sunderland v Newcastle United

Saturday April 11 2015 
Liverpool v Newcastle United

Saturday April 18 2015 
Newcastle United v Tottenham

Saturday April 25 2015 
Newcastle United v Swansea City

Saturday May 2 2015 
Leicester City v Newcastle United

Saturday May 9 2015 
Newcastle United v West Brom

Saturday May 16 2015 
QPR v Newcastle United

Sunday May 24 2015 
Newcastle United v West Ham United

LEAGUE CUP - Ties to be played on September 23-24.

Chelsea v Bolton
Arsenal v Southampton
West Brom v Hull
Crystal Palace v Newcastle
Leyton Orient v Sheff Utd
Cardiff v Bournemouth
Sunderland v Stoke
Derby v Reading
Liverpool v Middlesbrough
MK Dons v Bradford
Man City v Sheff Wed
Burton v Brighton
Swansea v Everton
Shrewsbury v Norwich
Fulham v Doncaster
Tottenham v Nottm Forest

SKY SPORTS GAMES

OCTOBER

Sun 19: Queens Park Rangers v Liverpool (1.30pm)

Sun 19: Stoke City v Swansea City (4pm)

Mon 20: West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United (8pm)

Sat 25: Swansea City v Leicester City (5.30pm)

Sun 26: Burnley v Everton (1.30pm)

Sun 26: Manchester United v Chelsea (4pm)

Mon 27: Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa (8pm)

NOVEMBER

Sun 2: Manchester City v Manchester United (1.30pm)

Sun 2: Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur (4pm)

Mon 3: Crystal Palace v Sunderland (8pm)

Sat 8: Queens Park Rangers v Manchester City (5.30pm)

Sun 9: West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United (1.30pm)

Sun 9: Swansea City v Arsenal (4pm)

Sat 22: Arsenal v Manchester United (5.30pm)

Sun 23: Crystal Palace v Liverpool (1.30pm)

Sun 23: Hull City v Tottenham Hotspur (4pm)

Mon 24: Aston Villa v Southampton (8pm)

Sat 29: Sunderland v Chelsea (5.30pm)

Sun 30: Southampton v Manchester City (1.30pm)

Sun 30: Tottenham Hotspur v Everton (4pm)

BT SPORT GAMES

OCTOBER

Sat 18: Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur (12.45pm)

Sat 25: West Ham United v Manchester City (12.45pm)

NOVEMBER

Sat 1: Newcastle United v Liverpool (12.45pm)

Sat 8: Liverpool v Chelsea (12.45pm)

Sat 29: West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal (12.45pm)