So he may have gone to Newcastle United but Jonjo Shelvey couldn't keep his mouth shut when he uttered some of his first words to the media following the move when he took a swipe at the Swansea fans who helped pay his wages for the past two and a half years.

Shelvey completed a move to the North East earlier this week to end his time at Swansea, a club who gave him a chance when Liverpool didn't want him and who gave him enough chances to earn him an England recall.

Things have turned sour for Shelvey since that England recall and we have never seen anywhere near the level of performances we had seen before that recall and that went right to the disgrace of last Sunday when a complete lack of effort was visible for everyone as the Swans exited the FA Cup at Oxford.

I don't know at times what goes on in the head of Shelvey who has an undoubted talent but seems hell bent on wasting it with some incredibly stupid decisions - reference a year ago at Liverpool - but litters it with some moments of magic - a winner at Southampton as an example.

It will be no different for him at Newcastle so why he decided to open his time with an attack on his former club and their supporters is beyond me and shows just why we are better off without him as he works elsewhere on self destructing his career.

"I think all I'm going to say is the Swansea fans did jump on my back without knowing what happened behind the scenes," he told BBC Newcastle.

"I won't go into it but I did feel hard done by. I thought I was hung out to dry a little bit when I was training well, I was competing well in the week and I was unlucky not to be getting picked.

"I got suspended against Liverpool and a week later I wasn't even on the bench against Leicester and they lost so I was a bit like 'I've just played for England four weeks ago so what's going on here'. And I'd played every game before that so I felt I had been hung out to dry a little bit.

"But I'm not going to be bothered about what people are saying about me to be honest. The opinion that matters to me is my family and the manager I'm playing with.

"I loved the Swansea fans but towards the end there were things being written about me and a lot of rumours when nobody actually knew the full extent of what was going on behind the cenes. I'll leave it at that."

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