What a sad catalogue of under achievement his career is. Littered with loans, options to buy not taken up and contracts broken after a year. With a different mentality could have been a very good player imo.
Not sure about deserving more time (though timing of his sacking was pretty unfortunate). I think Pardew is pretty competent, but this close season he failed to prepare properly and didnt sign players to address the problems evident from last season. That sealed his fate imo.
It might have been a problem a couple of years ago for players who had that 'I'm prem quality' attitude - Rasiak, Saga, Skacel etc. Dont think any of our current squad would have any right to look down on Adkins.