Tuesday 27 August 2013 15:34, UK
Newcastle director of football Joe Kinnear insists the ball is in Arsenal's court over the future of Yohan Cabaye.
Kinnear has has also urged Newcastle fans to stay positive and insists he and Pardew have a strong working relationship. "We are working together - not plotting against each other. I don't understand where the negativity has come from - we are two games into a 38-game season and already the doom-and-gloom merchants are looking for a scapegoat." Fans have also grown upset at a perceived lack of action in the transfer market. They unfurled a banner during the draw with West Ham which read 'Joe Kinnear, the clown of the Premier League', but the 66-year-old is standing his ground. "Alan Pardew has signed 16 players costing £60m in the last two years, Newcastle United's wage bill is now comfortably in the top 10 in the country, and he will continue to get all the support the club can reasonably provide," Kinnear added. "Before the season started, we had sat down and agreed the squad was big enough, and strong enough, to finish in the top half of the table. But we are working together - not plotting against each other. "There seems to be a perception, from outside the club, that we are at loggerheads, but I don't know why people are jumping on the bandwagon because it is a false picture."