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He turned the club around from relegation fighters to promotion candidates through players, such as Jamie Cureton, and his régime to increase the fitness of the squad.
Good idea for him to use players, i would never have thought of that.

 

Being serious, West Ham played great passing football that season when they were doing well in the Prem.

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At Charlton he signed:

Souleymane Diawara £3700000

Ben Thatcher £ 500000

Madjid Bougherra £ 2500000

Luke Varney £ 2000000

Chris Iwelumo Free

Patrick McCarthy £ 650000

Yassin Moutaouakil £ 400000

Jose Semedo Free

Martin Christensen £ 250000

Chris Powell Free

Svetoslav Todorov Free

Nicky Weaver Free

Dean Sinclair £ 125000

Izale McLeod £ 1100000

Zheng Zhi £2000000

 

 

he offloaded Perry to WBA by the way. I hope he goes back for Jose Semedo. I thought he looked a great defensive midfielder. Midn you we perhaps need players in other positions more.

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Charlton

Marcus Bent £2.5m

Gonzolo Sorondo Free

Simon Walton £500000

Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink Free

Amdy Faye £2000000

Djimi Traore £2000000

Andy Reid £ 3000000

Souleymane Diawara £ 3700000

Ben Thatcher £ 500000

Madjid Bougherra £ 2500000

Luke Varney £ 2000000

Chris Iwelumo Free

Patrick McCarthy £ 650000

Yassin Moutaouakil £ 400000

Jose Semedo Free

Martin Christensen £ 250000

Chris Powell Free

Svetoslav Todorov Free

Nicky Weaver Free

 

he offloaded Perry to WBA by the way. I hope he goes back for Jose Semedo. I thought he looked a great defensive midfielder. Midn you we perhaps need players in other positions more.

 

some good signings there, Iwelumo and McCarthy for example

 

if backed it seems he can attract and improve players

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£2m fro Djimi Traore is a shocker! He was & is one of the worst players to ever play in the PL. But like all managers some signings work out - some dont.

It would be interesting to see the players coming in & out of Reading which is more of a similar situation to where we are at now.

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£2m fro Djimi Traore is a shocker! He was & is one of the worst players to ever play in the PL. But like all managers some signings work out - some dont.

It would be interesting to see the players coming in & out of Reading which is more of a similar situation to where we are at now.

 

im sure dowie signed traore....

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This makes for some interesting retrospective reading when you think about how it all panned out...

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/5304708.stm

 

I think it explains his comments on joining us as a "stable club". West Ham was a circus at the time and Charlton's board were starting to turn on each other in a way that we are very familiar with as Saints fans. The one stable environment was Reading and he did well. It's a slightly risky pick - as WGS was - but I've a feeling it could be a shrewd one.

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you are right it was. Not sure about Diarra as he signed four days after Pardew got there so proabably a done deal before he got there.

 

Both of them were Dowie buys. Tony Cascarino - who does a lot of football media work in France - said at the time Charlton had paid at least double, and probably more, than Diawara was worth, hence Sochaux bit their hands off.

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Come on, what manager would say no?

 

The stupid part was West Ham not even playing them. But I think that was actually Curbishley wasn't it? Mascherano had an injury, tevez was in and out, then pardew left.

 

I'd choose Pardew over Curbishley tbh, but I never liked Curbishley.

 

SAF has said no.

 

Well from what I can remember it was late in the transfer window and it caused disruption to the team (that finished 9th and a FA cup final the season before I think) so a big gamble with the season already started.

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Come on, what manager would say no?

 

The stupid part was West Ham not even playing them. But I think that was actually Curbishley wasn't it? Mascherano had an injury, tevez was in and out, then pardew left.

 

I'd choose Pardew over Curbishley tbh, but I never liked Curbishley.

 

I think when they were signed Pardew first heard about it in the media.

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Some of the names fill me with even more optimism.

 

I wonder how many older/experienced Prem/CCC players his name (and ML money) will be tempted to join for a promotion push?

 

Cant wait to see what happens. :D

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Very, very hit and miss it seems. For every time he spunks money up the wall on appalling players like Diawara and Traore he seems to find a great player for free like Iwelumo.

 

On the plus side however, money really isn't an issue right now and an active manager is really what we need. A shakeup of things is just the ticket and knowing him he'll be on the phone all week looking for players.

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