Pardew 勧めるs Newcastle players to rediscover 早期に season form

Updated: 00:46 BST, 20 December 2011

経営者／支配人 Alan Pardew has challenged his Newcastle players to keep punching above their 負わせる to 持続する 接触する with the Barclays 首相 League's big boys.

The Magpies 長，率いる into Wednesday night's home 衝突／不一致 with West Brom without a 勝利，勝つ in their last five games, but still sitting in seventh p lace in the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する after an impressive start to the （選挙などの）運動をする.

傷害s, 中断s and a fixture 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） which pitched them into 戦う／戦い with 肩書を与える-chasing Manchester City and Manchester 部隊d 同様に as fellow aristocrats Chelsea on 連続した 週末s have taken their （死傷者）数.

Keep on going: Alan Pardew has 勧めるd his players to 持続する their good start to the season

And there was 失望 on Tyneside on Saturday when Swansea left with a point after 生き残るing a first-half deluge to （人命などを）奪う，主張する a 0-0 draw.

However, while Pardew knows his squad cannot hope to compete with English football's major 力／強力にするs financially, he is 確信して they can 粘着する to their coat-tails.

He said: 'Our best team can compete with any team in this 首相 League.

'Whether we have got a strong enough squad to keep us 終始一貫して in the 最高の，を越す seven all year, we will have to wait and see.

'But certainly, we still have a nice 利ざや over the 残り／休憩（する）.

行き詰まらせる: Newcastle and Swansea drew 0-0 on Saturday

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'Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester 部隊d, Manchester City, Chelsea are way, way above us ーに関して／ーの点でs of 予算s and everything else, so we are doing 絶対 fabulously, make no mistake about that.'

It is, of course, just Newcastle's second season 支援する in the 最高の，を越す flight に引き続いて their ignominious relegation at the end of the 2008-09 season, and the 財政上の 再編成 which has seen 抱擁する 行う packets and 大規模な 移転 料金s consigned to the history 調書をとる／予約するs means the club is now operating along very different lines.

However, while safety remains the first and 圧倒的な 優先, Pardew, whose 味方する have amassed 27 points from their first 16 games, continues to look 上向きs rather than over his shoulder.

He said: 'It's dangerous to look behind, so we will look up and go from there.'

The busy Christmas period will fully 実験（する） Pardew's squad as he 準備するs to enter the 移転 market once again with a centre-half high on his wish-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） as a result of Steven Taylor's season-ending Achilles 傷害.

手配中の，お尋ね者 man: Cheick Tiote has been watched by a number of 最高の，を越す 味方するs

He was linked with FC Twente's Douglas フランス系カナダ人 Teixeira, but it was the Brazilian-born defender's former club-mate Cheick Tiote whose 未来 remained a major topic of 審議 まっただ中に 報告（する）／憶測s that Manchester 部隊d - one of several clubs credited with an 利益／興味 - had him watched at the 週末.

Asked how 確信して he is of 持つ／拘留するing on to the midfielder, Pardew said: 'I am 確信して in as much as it is going to take a hell of a lot of money to take him out, and I don't know how many 首相 League clubs could do that.

'We will have to wait and see, won't we?'

Pardew is hoping to have Ivory Coast international Tiote, who made his first 外見 for almost two months against Swansea に引き続いて a 膝 problem, and Senegal 相当するもの Demba Ba 利用できる until the middle of next month before they を回避する on African Nations Cup 義務.

Off to Africa: Demba Ba will 行方不明になる the next few weeks while at the Africa Cup of Nations

一方／合間, Newcastle once again 拒絶する／低下するd to comment on 報告（する）／憶測s that Sochaux striker Modibo Maiga's 提案するd move has 崩壊（する）d because of a 膝 problem.

However, the player told www.skysports.com: 'I 手配中の，お尋ね者 that move to Newcastle 不正に.

However, it did not happen as they said my 膝 has a problem - but I feel better than anything.

'There is a player at Newcastle now [Ba], he was told at a 首相 League 医療の that he had a 膝 problem, he then went to another and started 得点する／非難する／２０ing goals before his move to Newcastle.

'But I am strong in my 長，率いる and up for it. I like Sochaux, but I am having a difficult time with the fans, they do not understand me.

'I love the 首相 League and I want to play there, hopefully I will have another chance, my health is very good and my 膝s are strong.'