It is safe to say Newcastle aren’t very happy with our bid for Yohan Cabaye and I can understand why. Manager Alan Pardew has lambasted the bid but it is owner Mike Ashley who has said the comedy gold line.

The founder of Sports Direct apparently responded to our bid with the words:

“Which part of him do you want to buy?” [for £10m]

It comes just a few weeks after Liverpool owner John Henry’s tweet:

“What do you think they’re smoking over there at Emirates?”

Unhappy Pardew

Alan Pardew didn’t offer a one-liner but rather a long tirade against the club for the timing of the bid.

He said:

“We have prepared with the lad for three days and for him to have his head turned by this bid by Arsenal is just disrespectful in my view,

“Why it couldn’t have waited until tomorrow I don’t know. The result wouldn’t have been the same if he’d played in my view.

“It is pretty obvious I am upset about that and I would rather focus on what for us has been a tough day.

“I am not sure of the exact terms of it [the bid] but it is below our valuation of the player for sure.”

Lessons to be learned

Although funny for fans maybe there is a lesson to be learned from some of these comments because Arsenal have got to stop with these embarrassing bids.

This added with the extra £1 for the Suarez deal just smacks of desperation not to spend an inch more than you have to. And what has happened is teams have become sick and tired of dealing with these underhand tactics that they move on.

Let’s hope rather than share a chuckle in the boardroom over these comments they decide to show that they mean business in the transfer window.

If they don’t we’ll be left behind!

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