Gary Neville: “It must be really difficult for him and he’s hurting badly.
“As much as the Newcastle fans want him out, they must see a man there who is doing his absolute very best and is trying as hard as he can.
“He is trying to work with a team with a lot of new players to integrate into the squad and it isn’t quite working for him in the attacking third in particular.
“You think of Sissoko, Gouffran, Cabella and Riviere tonight – plus Cisse in the second half – and there was nowhere near enough from them. You need more quality from them to win games. Stoke just had that little bit extra.
“Newcastle have had a recruitment policy where they have brought in players, some of them half-well-known and some of them not-really-well-known, particularly from France and they’ve done ok with that.
“But if ever Alan Pardew needed a certainty this summer it was people who are tried and trusted in the Premier League and people he knew would hit the ground running for him.
"They have brought in Riviere and Cabella, who have not adapted to this league.
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“There is a higher risk attached to those types of signings than there is with players who have already been here, settled and done it over a period of one to three years.
“I’m not sure if Alan Pardew is in control of the signings at the club, but I would have to say that if I was him this summer, knowing there was pressure at the end of last season, you wanted tried and trusted – and he hasn’t got that.”