Toon_Demon
Vital Football Hero
If it's true it also blows a big hole in the "ashley wants pardew to walk" theory (Which I'll admit I thought was a very likely scenario) and makes the whole situation all the more confusing, surely ashley doesn't want the team to be in a relegation battle and to have to bail pardew out again, and pardew was giving him the chance to get rid of him for minimal if any outlay. The plot thickens. Although the story could be utter nonsense. Will be interesting to see if pardew gets asked about it at his press conference this week