Newcastle made a bid to take him back on loan from Liverpool earlier this week.
“That whole process is a little bit more involved with the chairman and the board at Liverpool,” Pardew told the Newcastle Chronicle. “We’ve got a great team here, a great squad, and if Andy Carroll comes it’ll only add to us.”
“It’s simple, really. Sometimes transfers are done at corporate level. I’m slightly detached from that. It’ll be what it’ll be.”
