Alan Pardew tells Newcastle he wants to leave for Crystal Palace

The Premier League's second longest serving manager had made clear to the Newcastle owner, Mike Ashley, his desire to leave St James' Park in favour of joining Palace, where he spent more than four years as a player. Ashley is currently on holiday in Barbados but, with Pardew's intent expressed, opened negotiations with the London club's co-owner, Steve Parish, on Monday. Pardew is contracted to 2020 but a fee of around £3m is expected to secure his release and allow him to take up the reins at Selhurst Park, Kazinform cites the Guardian. He will sign a four-year contract with the club on a much improved basic wage having been granted permission to discuss terms on Monday night. Palace, who currently languish just inside the relegation zone after a solitary win in 13 matches, dismissed Neil Warnock on Saturday after four months in charge. "As a result of this development today (Monday), Alan will not be at training on Tuesday," read a statement from Newcastle. "Training will be the responsibility of assistant manager John Carver. The club will make a further announcement in due course." Newcastle could well ask Peter Beardsley, who is much admired by Ashley, to step up from his role as the development team manager in the short term and assume caretaker duties starting with Thursday's visit of Burnley. It is anticipated that the first-team coach, Steve Stone, and Carver will remain at the club. Pardew, 53, whose family home remains in Surrey, had recovered from a dismal opening to the season with Sunday's win over Everton lifting Newcastle to ninth. Yet he had grown increasingly frustrated at his lack of influence in terms of transfer policy at St James' Park, where the manager's input is minimal and the chief scout, Graham Carr, effectively operates as a director of football. He was particularly dismayed to learn earlier this month that money would not be made available for the purchase of a striker in the forthcoming January transfer window. Indeed, with the side currently well clear of the relegation scrap, it is more likely that the Newcastle managing director, Lee Charnley, will instead actively seek to sell the midfielder Moussa Sissoko, a scenario the manager had suffered a year ago when Yohan Cabaye was shipped out to Paris Saint-Germain. Full story