Starsport understands McClaren’s position is not yet under pressure from managing director Lee Charnley with sources insisting the Toon board still see him as part of a long-term project.
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Yannick Bolasie and James McArthur both struck twice as the Eagles hammered the hapless Tynesiders 5-1 at Selhurst Park, Newcastle’s seventh defeat in 11 league games.
Papiss Cisse’as gunning for former Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew.
The fans that had made trip to London could be heard lambasting the players from the stands, and the coach has no qualms with their views.
That being said I don’t think that they will win. You don’t just become a different player overnight, everything has got to happen gradually.
“Even when we went behind I said to a couple of lads that I thought we had started really well and to keep going and we would get back in the game”.
McClaren cancelled his players’ day off in the wake of a humiliating loss that left them languishing in the Premier League relegation zone on Saturday.
“We know we’re doing the right things – I know that through experience”.
“There’s no extra satisfaction (in beating Newcastle)”, he said.
“We lose when we stop doing our jobs when disappointment hits us”.
We have to get to February to see if we’ve got a chance of Europe.
Wickham won the ball in the middle of the park originally before putting in a cross for Palace’s second, and Pardew hailed him as the stand-out performer in his side’s biggest ever Premier League win. “It’s hard to talk about the opposition because I love the staff and the players there, and some of the Newcastle fans who I know who travelled to the game”.
And despite the defeat to Sunderland on Monday night, McArthur is in no doubt that they are in good hands going into Saturday’s fixture against Newcastle – another team where Pardew enjoyed success.
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“He does play football but is rugby he really likes”. We’ve put ourselves back in amongst the Evertons and Tottenhams, and that’s where we want to be.
