Eddie Howe

[Joe1984]

1 hour ago, Kid Icarus said:

Slight ITK info.

 

Relations of my best mate work in construction - one tool hire and one scaffolding. Howe has been getting a lot of renovation work done (scaffolding) and the tool hire company have delivered to Tindall's loads recently.

 

Not entirely sure what it could mean tbh, if they own their houses its maybe a good sign, but if they're rented it's bad? Dunno.

Tindall probably smashed his house up after Barca. 

 

Needs the tools for the repairs... 😄

[Myleftboot]

9 minutes ago, Joe1984 said:

Tindall probably smashed his house up after Barca. 

 

Needs the tools for the repairs... 😄

I was talking to a mate last weekend and he said he knows the people who live next door to the house Tindall is renting. He says tindalls wife still lives in Bournemouthand comes up on a weekend and when we win apparently he has a party and he can be heard singing karaoke for most of the night.

[jackyboy]

I thought Eddie was renting Shearers old house and that Tindall drives up and down to Bournemouth 

 

 

[Miggys First Goal]

Eddie lives in Gosforth not far from the Moor. He’s been getting work done on his house for almost a year now. 

[bobbydazzla]

13 minutes ago, jackyboy said:

I thought Eddie was renting Shearers old house and that Tindall drives up and down to Bournemouth 

 

 

One of the lads who owned End bought Shearers pad in Darras Hall. Shearer moved to Gosforth.

 

Eddie was living in Gosforth but someone said he moved to Darras Hall recently, I don’t know if that’s correct or not.
 

Tindall lives in Gosforth. 

Just wanted to confirm that I’m not a creepy stalker. I just have various reasons why I know this shit. 
 

I have friends who are tradesmen, friends who live in Gosforth, friends who know the lads from End and I had a natter with Shearer last year. I’m a man of the people. 

 

 

Edited April 4 by bobbydazzla

[astraguy]

This isn't mine but its how i feel,I pray to fuck our board don't go off what they see on social media i've had to come off it.

If this club hounds Howe out, I think I might actually chuck my season ticket.

I've got strong Bobby Robson vibes here. How in hell anyone can write a table , including "poor match management" when we beat a peak Liverpool team in a cup final less than 2 years ago is absolutely fucking bonkers in my mind.

It brings me down, it really does.

Like it or not, even today , even today - this is the best we've been in decades, despite everything that's gone against us.

No ones saying that a manager cant make mistakes or need to change things - but thats just human life - we are not robots, people learn on journeys to success. But to want a manager out when hes "reached peak" with a team such as ours is just fuckin deluded imo.

Our squad is NOT champions league standard, sorry, it isn't . yet we get to the final 16 for the first time in our history and within a month we've fans booing the club. No. just no.

[midds]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/04/newcastle-eddie-howe-join-exodus

 

This is exactly the type of shit that the CEO's remarks stoke up. Such a careless choice of words and this won't be the last piece like this. Not dismissing all of the things he's saying but the timing of it is hardly beneficial or coincidental

[midds]

Even when the fixture list was revealed last summer, it was perhaps predictable that the middle of March would represent the crisis point for Newcastle. If they had reached the Champions League quarter-finals and won the Tyne-Wear derby at St James’ Park, a lot of other frustrations could have been forgotten. Even better, that game against Sunderland would have had to be postponed had Newcastle reached a third Carabao Cup final since 2023.

Those days of celebration a year ago feel a long time ago now, but the mood could easily have been very different. Newcastle were the better side in the home leg against Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League. Only the concession of a daft late penalty denied them victory and they were a persistent threat on the break in the first half of the away leg. Only in the second half of the second leg did the game get away from them: a 7-2 defeat made the difference between the sides seem much greater than it actually was.

Eddie Howe faces seven-game test to secure Newcastle job for next season

 

The derby, similarly, might easily have been won. Newcastle led at half-time and had hit a post. But they have the fifth-worst second-half record of any Premier League side this season, raising questions about their fitness. Sunderland came back, Brian Brobbey’s winner resulting from a straightforward pass from Granit Xhaka. There are not many similarities between Hansi Flick’s Barça and Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland but both capitalised on surprising space in the Newcastle midfield late in the game.

And so a season that had teetered on the brink toppled into frustration. There is serious talk Eddie Howe could be under pressure. Certainly the chief executive, David Hopkinson, did not offer any great endorsement of Howe this week. With the opportunity to back him, Hopkinson said only that “we’ll talk about the future when it’s time”, which sounded distinctly ominous.

Howe arrived in November 2021, a month after the Saudi-led buyout of Mike Ashley’s ownership. He has earnestly and politely led the club into the Public Investment Fund era, largely evading inconvenient talk about human rights. He has twice led Newcastle into the Champions League. Most gloriously of all, he led them to the Carabao Cup, their first domestic trophy in 70 years. Nobody was suggesting he should be sacked at this point last season.

However, the question is less about on-pitch performance than structures at the club. Most of what has gone wrong this season can be put down to poor recruitment, and Howe had a significant hand in that. In the absence of a sporting director, Howe’s nephew, Andy Howe, worked with Steve Nickson on first-team recruitment last summer.

The Alexander Isak sale was handled remarkably badly. The saga was allowed to dominate the summer and, when the forward left at the end of the window, it felt like a defeat. With the Swede so determined to leave, the better option, surely, would have been to drive the fee as high as possible and wave him off, with enough time to spend some of the proceeds on broader squad-strengthening. Perhaps it was never possible, but a more imaginative hierarchy could at least have tried arranging a deal to let Liverpool have Isak in return for them giving Newcastle a clear run at Hugo Ekitiké.

 

Newcastle were unfortunate Yoane Wissa was injured soon after joining, but they signed Nick Woltemade without really seeming to have a clear idea of what they were going to do with a player with an unorthodox range of attributes. Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey have had a limited impact, meaning that, at this stage, only Malick Thiaw of the summer signings can be hailed as a success.

As a consequence, the squad has lacked the requisite depth for the extra demands of the Champions League, plus a run to the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup and the fifth round of the FA Cup. If Newcastle have looked tired, as they have frequently in second halves, it is hardly surprising.

The question then is why and that comes down to broader structures. There wasn’t much Newcastle could do about Dan Ashworth’s departure for Manchester United. But Paul Mitchell, his successor as sporting director, became disillusioned and it was his departure that led to the vacuum of the summer. Mitchell was unimpressed with the club ownership, but had also reportedly clashed with Howe over player conditioning. Ross Wilson arrived as sporting director in October, with Howe’s approval, but he faces significant challenges even beyond suggestions that the decision-making process among the Newcastle ownership is not as slick as it should be.

 

Although the club insist the decision to sell the stadium to a subsidiary is merely a streamlining of bureaucracy, finances have come under sufficient strain that Newcastle are facing a Uefa fine for 2025. The sale of Isak and the return to the Champions League should ease the pressure, while the switch from profitability and sustainability regulations to an unanchored squad cost ratio should benefit owners with the deepest pockets, but it remains unclear just how committed the PIF is, given the general Saudi retrenchment. Talk of a new stadium has been notable by its absence for almost a year now. That declining interest itself may have protected Howe from scrutiny.

Hopkinson’s description of Newcastle not as a selling club or a buying club, but as a trading club, seems realistic, but there was also a sense he was preparing fans for a departure, with Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Tino Livramento those perhaps most likely to be on their way. Which is to say that even if economic conditions are softening, Newcastle may not be inclined to take advantage and the probable absence of Champions League football next season resets the parameters.

The underlying issue, though, is how Newcastle is run and the degree of influence Howe has accrued in the absence of a clearly defined hierarchy. In terms of on-field considerations, there is little reason to replace him and without the strain of European football form is likely to improve anyway. But if Newcastle are serious about changing the culture at the club, at becoming a serious modern organisation, it may be that Howe’s departure is a necessary part of their restructuring.

 

Quick and dirty paste

[astraguy]

why post a mackems view???

[midds]

4 minutes ago, astraguy said:

why post a mackems view???

It's just an article that (probably) millions of football fans will read at some point. I didn't write it mate

[Yorkie]

I would happily hear Jonathan Wilson speak on any subject apart solely from the topic of Newcastle United. 

[Ben]

6 minutes ago, midds said:

Even when the fixture list was revealed last summer, it was perhaps predictable that the middle of March would represent the crisis point for Newcastle. If they had reached the Champions League quarter-finals and won the Tyne-Wear derby at St James’ Park, a lot of other frustrations could have been forgotten. Even better, that game against Sunderland would have had to be postponed had Newcastle reached a third Carabao Cup final since 2023.

Those days of celebration a year ago feel a long time ago now, but the mood could easily have been very different. Newcastle were the better side in the home leg against Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League. Only the concession of a daft late penalty denied them victory and they were a persistent threat on the break in the first half of the away leg. Only in the second half of the second leg did the game get away from them: a 7-2 defeat made the difference between the sides seem much greater than it actually was.

Eddie Howe faces seven-game test to secure Newcastle job for next season

 

The derby, similarly, might easily have been won. Newcastle led at half-time and had hit a post. But they have the fifth-worst second-half record of any Premier League side this season, raising questions about their fitness. Sunderland came back, Brian Brobbey’s winner resulting from a straightforward pass from Granit Xhaka. There are not many similarities between Hansi Flick’s Barça and Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland but both capitalised on surprising space in the Newcastle midfield late in the game.

And so a season that had teetered on the brink toppled into frustration. There is serious talk Eddie Howe could be under pressure. Certainly the chief executive, David Hopkinson, did not offer any great endorsement of Howe this week. With the opportunity to back him, Hopkinson said only that “we’ll talk about the future when it’s time”, which sounded distinctly ominous.

Howe arrived in November 2021, a month after the Saudi-led buyout of Mike Ashley’s ownership. He has earnestly and politely led the club into the Public Investment Fund era, largely evading inconvenient talk about human rights. He has twice led Newcastle into the Champions League. Most gloriously of all, he led them to the Carabao Cup, their first domestic trophy in 70 years. Nobody was suggesting he should be sacked at this point last season.

However, the question is less about on-pitch performance than structures at the club. Most of what has gone wrong this season can be put down to poor recruitment, and Howe had a significant hand in that. In the absence of a sporting director, Howe’s nephew, Andy Howe, worked with Steve Nickson on first-team recruitment last summer.

The Alexander Isak sale was handled remarkably badly. The saga was allowed to dominate the summer and, when the forward left at the end of the window, it felt like a defeat. With the Swede so determined to leave, the better option, surely, would have been to drive the fee as high as possible and wave him off, with enough time to spend some of the proceeds on broader squad-strengthening. Perhaps it was never possible, but a more imaginative hierarchy could at least have tried arranging a deal to let Liverpool have Isak in return for them giving Newcastle a clear run at Hugo Ekitiké.

 

Newcastle were unfortunate Yoane Wissa was injured soon after joining, but they signed Nick Woltemade without really seeming to have a clear idea of what they were going to do with a player with an unorthodox range of attributes. Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey have had a limited impact, meaning that, at this stage, only Malick Thiaw of the summer signings can be hailed as a success.

As a consequence, the squad has lacked the requisite depth for the extra demands of the Champions League, plus a run to the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup and the fifth round of the FA Cup. If Newcastle have looked tired, as they have frequently in second halves, it is hardly surprising.

The question then is why and that comes down to broader structures. There wasn’t much Newcastle could do about Dan Ashworth’s departure for Manchester United. But Paul Mitchell, his successor as sporting director, became disillusioned and it was his departure that led to the vacuum of the summer. Mitchell was unimpressed with the club ownership, but had also reportedly clashed with Howe over player conditioning. Ross Wilson arrived as sporting director in October, with Howe’s approval, but he faces significant challenges even beyond suggestions that the decision-making process among the Newcastle ownership is not as slick as it should be.

 

Although the club insist the decision to sell the stadium to a subsidiary is merely a streamlining of bureaucracy, finances have come under sufficient strain that Newcastle are facing a Uefa fine for 2025. The sale of Isak and the return to the Champions League should ease the pressure, while the switch from profitability and sustainability regulations to an unanchored squad cost ratio should benefit owners with the deepest pockets, but it remains unclear just how committed the PIF is, given the general Saudi retrenchment. Talk of a new stadium has been notable by its absence for almost a year now. That declining interest itself may have protected Howe from scrutiny.

Hopkinson’s description of Newcastle not as a selling club or a buying club, but as a trading club, seems realistic, but there was also a sense he was preparing fans for a departure, with Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Tino Livramento those perhaps most likely to be on their way. Which is to say that even if economic conditions are softening, Newcastle may not be inclined to take advantage and the probable absence of Champions League football next season resets the parameters.

The underlying issue, though, is how Newcastle is run and the degree of influence Howe has accrued in the absence of a clearly defined hierarchy. In terms of on-field considerations, there is little reason to replace him and without the strain of European football form is likely to improve anyway. But if Newcastle are serious about changing the culture at the club, at becoming a serious modern organisation, it may be that Howe’s departure is a necessary part of their restructuring.

 

Quick and dirty paste

 

Hit piece on Howe that,

 

"largely evading inconvenient talk about human rights"

 

Is something that he has zero control over, yet they want him to talk about it, any journo ever ask a West Ham manager if they get free Dildos as part of their bonus ? 

[Kilcline]

"...surprising space in the Newcastle midfield..."

 

Not watched us much? 

[Wolfcastle]

23 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

Hit piece on Howe that,

 

"largely evading inconvenient talk about human rights"

 

Is something that he has zero control over, yet they want him to talk about it, any journo ever ask a West Ham manager if they get free Dildos as part of their bonus ? 

Good, I and a lot of people have no interest in what any managers whose club has associations or sponsorships with any Middle Eastern country, China and beyond's thoughts are on human rights in every interview. As it should be. 

[LaurentRobert]

44 minutes ago, midds said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/04/newcastle-eddie-howe-join-exodus

 

This is exactly the type of shit that the CEO's remarks stoke up. Such a careless choice of words and this won't be the last piece like this. Not dismissing all of the things he's saying but the timing of it is hardly beneficial or coincidental

Headline should read "sad Mackem bastard throws shade at Newcastle United"

[Whitley mag]

4 hours ago, midds said:

Even when the fixture list was revealed last summer, it was perhaps predictable that the middle of March would represent the crisis point for Newcastle. If they had reached the Champions League quarter-finals and won the Tyne-Wear derby at St James’ Park, a lot of other frustrations could have been forgotten. Even better, that game against Sunderland would have had to be postponed had Newcastle reached a third Carabao Cup final since 2023.

Those days of celebration a year ago feel a long time ago now, but the mood could easily have been very different. Newcastle were the better side in the home leg against Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League. Only the concession of a daft late penalty denied them victory and they were a persistent threat on the break in the first half of the away leg. Only in the second half of the second leg did the game get away from them: a 7-2 defeat made the difference between the sides seem much greater than it actually was.

Eddie Howe faces seven-game test to secure Newcastle job for next season

 

The derby, similarly, might easily have been won. Newcastle led at half-time and had hit a post. But they have the fifth-worst second-half record of any Premier League side this season, raising questions about their fitness. Sunderland came back, Brian Brobbey’s winner resulting from a straightforward pass from Granit Xhaka. There are not many similarities between Hansi Flick’s Barça and Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland but both capitalised on surprising space in the Newcastle midfield late in the game.

And so a season that had teetered on the brink toppled into frustration. There is serious talk Eddie Howe could be under pressure. Certainly the chief executive, David Hopkinson, did not offer any great endorsement of Howe this week. With the opportunity to back him, Hopkinson said only that “we’ll talk about the future when it’s time”, which sounded distinctly ominous.

Howe arrived in November 2021, a month after the Saudi-led buyout of Mike Ashley’s ownership. He has earnestly and politely led the club into the Public Investment Fund era, largely evading inconvenient talk about human rights. He has twice led Newcastle into the Champions League. Most gloriously of all, he led them to the Carabao Cup, their first domestic trophy in 70 years. Nobody was suggesting he should be sacked at this point last season.

However, the question is less about on-pitch performance than structures at the club. Most of what has gone wrong this season can be put down to poor recruitment, and Howe had a significant hand in that. In the absence of a sporting director, Howe’s nephew, Andy Howe, worked with Steve Nickson on first-team recruitment last summer.

The Alexander Isak sale was handled remarkably badly. The saga was allowed to dominate the summer and, when the forward left at the end of the window, it felt like a defeat. With the Swede so determined to leave, the better option, surely, would have been to drive the fee as high as possible and wave him off, with enough time to spend some of the proceeds on broader squad-strengthening. Perhaps it was never possible, but a more imaginative hierarchy could at least have tried arranging a deal to let Liverpool have Isak in return for them giving Newcastle a clear run at Hugo Ekitiké.

 

Newcastle were unfortunate Yoane Wissa was injured soon after joining, but they signed Nick Woltemade without really seeming to have a clear idea of what they were going to do with a player with an unorthodox range of attributes. Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey have had a limited impact, meaning that, at this stage, only Malick Thiaw of the summer signings can be hailed as a success.

As a consequence, the squad has lacked the requisite depth for the extra demands of the Champions League, plus a run to the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup and the fifth round of the FA Cup. If Newcastle have looked tired, as they have frequently in second halves, it is hardly surprising.

The question then is why and that comes down to broader structures. There wasn’t much Newcastle could do about Dan Ashworth’s departure for Manchester United. But Paul Mitchell, his successor as sporting director, became disillusioned and it was his departure that led to the vacuum of the summer. Mitchell was unimpressed with the club ownership, but had also reportedly clashed with Howe over player conditioning. Ross Wilson arrived as sporting director in October, with Howe’s approval, but he faces significant challenges even beyond suggestions that the decision-making process among the Newcastle ownership is not as slick as it should be.

 

Although the club insist the decision to sell the stadium to a subsidiary is merely a streamlining of bureaucracy, finances have come under sufficient strain that Newcastle are facing a Uefa fine for 2025. The sale of Isak and the return to the Champions League should ease the pressure, while the switch from profitability and sustainability regulations to an unanchored squad cost ratio should benefit owners with the deepest pockets, but it remains unclear just how committed the PIF is, given the general Saudi retrenchment. Talk of a new stadium has been notable by its absence for almost a year now. That declining interest itself may have protected Howe from scrutiny.

Hopkinson’s description of Newcastle not as a selling club or a buying club, but as a trading club, seems realistic, but there was also a sense he was preparing fans for a departure, with Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Tino Livramento those perhaps most likely to be on their way. Which is to say that even if economic conditions are softening, Newcastle may not be inclined to take advantage and the probable absence of Champions League football next season resets the parameters.

The underlying issue, though, is how Newcastle is run and the degree of influence Howe has accrued in the absence of a clearly defined hierarchy. In terms of on-field considerations, there is little reason to replace him and without the strain of European football form is likely to improve anyway. But if Newcastle are serious about changing the culture at the club, at becoming a serious modern organisation, it may be that Howe’s departure is a necessary part of their restructuring.

 

Quick and dirty paste

Might be a mackem but his last paragraph isn’t far off the mark. 
 

Mitchell was probably a cunt but he called our transfer strategy as being not fit for purpose and that was before Howe was let loose last summer.

 

The club are ultimately to blame for allowing that situation to occur, it wasn’t being ran as a modern organisation in regard to recruitment.

 

The question is will the current manager accept having young players from Europe handed to him this summer, especially if they are replacing proven players like Tonali and Tino.

 

If Howe stays he needs to be completely on board with this approach, or we’ll end up in the Woltemade situation where the new signings aren’t trusted and we’ll have square pegs in round holes.

 

I still think Howe walks in the summer and my monies on him replacing Tuchel after the World Cup.

 

 

Edited April 4 by Whitley mag

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Doesn’t really say a lot. Doesn’t even say if the structures have improved or altered. Just that getting rid of Howe might be a necessary part of restructuring because…well why not? 
 

Seems to be piss all point in signing players that aren’t wanted by the manager. For some that will mean get rid of the manager, when it shouldn’t. 
 

Managers been happy to work with Brunos and Sandros and Halls and Livramentos and Botmans and Isaks. Added value to every player he’s worked with more or less. 

 

 

Edited April 4 by Shays Given Tim Flowers

[Mountain]

9 hours ago, Myleftboot said:

I was talking to a mate last weekend and he said he knows the people who live next door to the house Tindall is renting. He says tindalls wife still lives in Bournemouthand comes up on a weekend and when we win apparently he has a party and he can be heard singing karaoke for most of the night.

 

The one man too powerful to be Howed.

 

Demote Eddie (build Eddie a statue of course) and let the real hero take the reigns.

 

MY LORD AND MY SAVIOUR, SIR TINDALL!

 

 

Edited April 5 by Mountain

[Erikse]

On 31/03/2026 at 23:26, Heron said:

It's entirely relevant to the debate though, surely? Like anyone can say "I want us to be the best team in the world and never ever lose a game" but the reality is we cannot, no one can. So to my mind, it's easy for anyone to say "Howe is the problem" but then what is the solution?

 

We may not all be scouts or coaches or whatever but we sure as hell watch enough football collectively on this forum to have ideas around managers who might fit. I think I've only ever seen about half a dozen names mentioned (if that!).

 

Mourinho

Frank (pre Spurs)

Glasner

Iraola

 

The best suggestion I've heard recently was Simeone but as to whether someone like that is attainable is beyond me. With our money is anyone attainable? With PSR constraints is it even possible to rebuild the squad the same way as previous?

 

When the takeover happened and Bruce was still in charge, how many people thought that getting Howe was the recipe to 2x CL qualifications and a cup win in the first 5 years? Go to the first 50 pages and have a look at who the majority wanted (Conte, Bielsa etc). Howe was rated, but he was seen as a less exciting option, and it was very hard for anyone know that it was a near perfect fit for us back then.

 

There could well be less obvious (or less exciting) options that would be more successful in taking us forward from this point onwards, that fans on a forum either won't think of, or would be ridiculed if they suggested. The people running the club should hopefully have better knowledge on this than the average fan, like they did when we got Howe in 2021.

 

Ofcourse, changing manager is allways a bit of a gamble regardless. Unless your manager is Steve Bruce, because then it can't get much worse.

 

 

Edited April 5 by Erikse

[lovejoy]

Hurzeler loosely linked in the Athletic today.

 

 

Edited April 5 by lovejoy

[SUPERTOON]

7 minutes ago, lovejoy said:

Hurzeler loosely linked in the Athletic today.

 

 

 

no thank you.

[Kilcline]

7 minutes ago, lovejoy said:

Hurzeler loosely linked in the Athletic today.

 

 

 

Fuck me, add him to my previous remarks about I'd rather we had light shows and goal music when someone mentioned Maresca or Mourinho 

[lovejoy]

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

no thank you.

Indeed.

[Pixelphish]

If they let go of Eddie for Hurzeler, man. Probably just ragebait and it's worked.

[Crimson Cardigan]

It’s very difficult to believe we could bring in anyone better than Howe at this point, the paucity of realistic options typified by the Twitter clowns clamour for Mourinho.