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#4 Newcastle United
It’s not often that a manager who has lost 14 of his last 20 games in charge of a Premier League club stays in the job, let alone expects his team to push for Champions League places in England the following season.
That’s exactly what Alan Pardew is doing at the moment at St. James’ Park. While many may believe that Pardew’s Champions League dreams might be too exalted an aspiration, there are certainly multiple reasons to feel optimistic again at Tyneside.
When it rains, it seems to pour at Newcastle. After failing to secure a single permanent signing in the last eighteen months, the club has gone on to cover all bases from present needs to future projects in the space of a couple of months as nine players have arrived at St. James’ Park this window.
The captures of Siem de Jong, Remy Cabella, Jack Colback, Emmanuel Riviere and Daryl Janmaat represent signings that are expected to immediately challenge for first-team spots. Meanwhile, the arrivals of Ayoze Perez from Tenerife and the Nottingham Forest duo of Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow has given a strong hint that the club has its eyes on the future as well.
They were also right on the job to sign the talented Argentine striker Facundo Ferreyra on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk, after the forward refused to return to the Ukrainian club because of unrest in the region.
