Alan Pardew: "Anybody who knows me and knows my management will tell you I am desperate to win something, and I think I have got a team that potentially can do that.
"Will we win the Premier League? Well, that's probably beyond us - the size of squads of Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea at the weekend, it's going to make it very, very difficult for us to bridge that gap unless we get into the Champions League.
"I still think that's probably our best route to grow as a football club.
"Having said that, a cup win would certainly raise our fans' morale and the club's morale, and that's something I'm focussing on as much as that Champions League position.
"We are just watching the market and seeing if anything pops its head up that's appealing to us.
"Agents keep ringing me and giving me all sorts of names - they must think we don't scout - but we are aware of the ones we are watching and if they decide to move on, then we might trigger ourselves.
"But at the moment, the targets we have are all very much secure at their clubs.
"I lost Andy Carroll on the last day of the January window so no, I can never rest easy, but I want to keep the great players we have got.
"We have worked very, very hard to bring them to the football club, not just on the scouting side but selling the club to players.
"Players like Anita, coming from Ajax, a team in the Champions League, to Newcastle, this isn't an easy thing to do.
"We want to keep our best players, and we are trying very hard to make sure we do that."