Alan Pardew: "I've been here long enough not to have to play politics with the fans.
"I think they know I'm an honest person, I think they know that I work hard, because I do, to try to achieve success at this club.
"I'm going to stay and bring that honesty onto the pitch.
"I have to make tough decisions at this club. I'll make the ones I think are right to take this club as close as we can to winning something or to get us as close as we can to the Champions League or even into the Champions League at some stage.
"I need to grow the team and build it as I go. At the back end of last season, I felt the team was nowhere near that.
"We had to improve it and we have. Now I've got to make sure that's replicated in results.
"I've nothing to moan about now in terms of what's happened this summer.
"We have got a strong squad, perhaps the biggest and best I've ever had in terms of options, so we are in a great position."