Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew has been accused of giving tailoring evidence against former Newcastle United winger Jonas Gutierrez.

The Argentine player is currently involved in an employment tribunal against Newcastle. He has accused the club of preventing him from playing games so that his automatic contract extension wouldn't be triggered.

The 32-year-old maintains that then-manager Pardew informed him in early December 2013 that he wouldn't feature in his plans and was free to talk to other clubs.

However, in his evidence, Pardew stated that he informed Gutierrez of his decision in pre-season, months before the player's diagnosis for testicular cancer.

Gutierrez's barrister, Martin Budworth, said on Wednesday: "He (Gutierrez) wouldn't choose to languish if, in summer 2013, he had been told he didn't feature in their plans."

"There's no document that even hints at these exchanges in summer 2013."

"The respondent's (Newcastle's) witnesses are not just mistaken about this but are giving knowingly untrue evidence.

"What I invite you to infer has happened is they've found it irresistible to come up with a reason to deflect the obvious inference in this case from basic chronology.

"They've tried to come up with an explanation to deflect that inference and have failed and the tribunal should see through that."

Of Pardew's evidence, he said: "He tries to suggest even as early as September 2011 that this player was already not in his plans.

"The fact he was seeking to create that impression hangs a serious question-mark over the entirety of his evidence and looks like his evidence has been tailored to reach that position."

He added that Gutierrez was "a very marketable asset at that time - he'd had a successful World Cup for Argentina."

"Mr. Pardew gives suspicious evidence in trying to say he was already not in his plans as far back as 2011."