And the Toon boss has warned the 21-year-old striker that he will only have himself to blame if he ends up on football’s scrapheap.
Ranger signed for the Magpies in 2009 on a free transfer and looked a promising prospect during the club’s promotion charge from the Championship three seasons ago.
But run-ins with the law and persistent lateness have seen him vanish from Pardew’s first-team plans.
Ranger admitted assaulting two police officers this week and Toon are desperate to ditch him — but with four years left on his contract and no takers, Pardew is stuck with him for now.
The ex-West Ham boss said: “This guy is late so often, it is unbelievable. He’s still at this football club and we’re still trying to do something with him.
“But he will still not get back in the team unless he has a period of six weeks where he isn’t late.
“I don’t think it is going to happen.
“It is important, I’m not going to let him train with my first team because he is letting the other players down.”
“The bottom line is we haven’t got four or five clubs queuing up to take him.
“In fact, we haven’t got one club queuing up for him.
“That should be alarm bells in his head to get his act in order, but maybe he doesn’t want to be a footballer.”
Source: The Sun
