Pardew's radio interview dissected.

Alan Pardew took part in a radio phone in for BBC Newcastle last night where he responded to questions asked by fans of NUFC.

This is somewhat of a rarity for the fans as it's not very often that we get the chance to ask any questions directly to anyone of any real importance at the club. Granted, Pardew has a reputation for kissing his own backside, but any communication is better than nothing, right? In my opinion, he actually came across rather well, although I have yet to listen to the whole program to be fair.

So what I've done here is to try and summarise the key points of his radio exploits. I will be trying to get my grubby little hands on a recording of the full program but with being at work I haven't had a chance to have a proper look yet.

Most of the focus is on the summer transfer market and just whether or not the club will spend the money made from the sale of Andy Carroll on strengthening the team. Once again, Pardew confirmed that he believed that the cash would be reinvested.

"Mike Ashley has made that commitment that the money will go back into the club," said Pardew when quizzed. "I'm sure 100% that he will and it's my challenge to spend the money wisely."

Pardew also moved allay fears that he would be left high and dry like other managers have and fully believes that he has the backing of the board. He continued:

"In terms of the transfers, when I came in here, I said: 'Look, you've obviously got a scouting system here, but the rubber stamp has to come from me.' If you're going to mould a team, then you have to have that assurance, and they gave me that assurance."

Apparently the club are in conversation with two overseas players who are out of contract in the summer, and apparently the club have identified players to spend that £35 million on. With scouting being at the fore for the moment there will hopefully be no shortage of transfer options come the summer.

Pardew also stated that he is "not a soundbite for Mike and Derek" whilst showing a bit of ambition by telling us that "we want to challenge for Europe and trophies" which is a nice thing to hear although the logistics of that depend on Pardew's ability in the transfer market.

All in all, from the bits I heard I would say it was a pretty heavily moderated interview with very little drama. All of the transfer talk is just lip service to me until we see signs of tentative action in the summer, but first we have to survive and get that out of the way.

Pardew came across alright and seemed honest enough, if a little dense at times, and he rightly pointed out that now is not the time to judge him and that he should be judged after he has had a chance to make the team his own. Fair enough if you ask me.

As i said earlier, these are just mere snippets of the interview that I took out because I thought they were the best bits. Others may have their own suggestion as to what they liked however so if I've not included it then please feel free to shout it up in the comments. Hopefully I can track down the full version so everyone can have a listen as I know the BBC block their internet shizzle outside of the UK.

But if I do manage it don't tell anyone! ;)