Why I have big reservations about his ability to turn this around is that it seems to be a carbon copy of how things ended at Bournemouth.
There was a Bournemouth fan podcast (must have been here also) from the week they got relegated, and the things they brought up seem really familiar.
These points were taken from a Reddit thread about that podcast:
They also seem to have lost over 20 points from leading positions, and for weeks the manager seemed broken and had lost all his energy.
It feels like maybe this is him, that this is how things end with him? Rightly or wrongly, his mentality seems to be to do the same things but better, rather than come up with something completely new. Inevitably, that leads to the situation he now has at Newcastle United - the same problems game after game. The players do not seem to have 100% trust in what they are doing, and Howe’s methods of motivating them are not working anymore.
When you see a lifelong fan like Jacob Murphy not busting a gut to defend—when work rate is basically the only thing he offers these days—then you are in huge trouble.
I would love him to get through this, but at the moment i just cannot see it. The club let him down with transfers for a few seasons, but the manager is usually the one who has to take responsibility when you’re at the wrong end of the table.
