![[Edwards, Tele] Newcastle will not sack Eddie Howe – this is why: He saved the club from relegation in his 1st, qualified for the UCL in his 2nd + reached the Carabao Cup final. In his 4th, NUFC once again qualified for the UCL and ended a 70 year trophy drought with the Carabao Cup.](https://www.eucup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MDa5H3d9REE80oBWszLiLdGnJo60ulXs8feQiSXSHuA-1024x576.jpeg "[Edwards, Tele] Newcastle will not sack Eddie Howe – this is why: He saved the club from relegation in his 1st, qualified for the UCL in his 2nd + reached the Carabao Cup final. In his 4th, NUFC once again qualified for the UCL and ended a 70 year trophy drought with the Carabao Cup.")
[Edwards, Tele] Newcastle will not sack Eddie Howe – this is why: He saved the club from relegation in his 1st, qualified for the UCL in his 2nd + reached the Carabao Cup final. In his 4th, NUFC once again qualified for the UCL and ended a 70 year trophy drought with the Carabao Cup.
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**With hindsight, it is recognised that not selling Isak earlier in the window, when they knew he was desperate to go to Liverpool, was a mistake. It will not be repeated.**
This has important implications. Bruno Guimarães, [Tino Livramento](https://archive.ph/o/n8M1s/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/03/11/arsenal-eyeing-bid-for-tino-livramento-newcastle-summer/), Anthony Gordon and [Sandro Tonali](https://archive.ph/o/n8M1s/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/02/08/newcastle-sandro-tonali-high-on-man-utd-shortlist/) have all been heavily linked with moves ahead of the summer. Some of them will also want to leave. Newcastle will ask them to be honest, get an understanding of their position and then set asking prices for those who are no longer committed.
**Not all of them will go or want to do so, but if one of their star players is adamant they want to depart, they will not be kept against their will.**
This summer will be different. It needs to be, but Howe will be given the time and support to try to win back the affection of the fans. **Nothing is certain in football and if things nosedive between now and May, a change in manager is not out of the question, but there remains no appetite for that at the moment.**
Well when you put it like that
I’m a Howe out guy, but I’m not opposed to giving him a chance and a summer to sort himself out. I don’t think it’s crazy to say he deserves it. I think he deserves to be fired too. I think both things can be reasonable opinions and I hold them both.
I know losing to Sunderland twice in a season is enough to make anyone want to sack the skipper, but its just not the right decision. We don’t get better firing Eddy, we almost certainly get worse.
Yes, but as Janet Jackson taught us all to ask… what has he done for me lately?
I think eddie needs to learn that he isn’t sir Alex he needs CEO’s and sporting directors to help him with transfers. Summer showed this well. He also needs to work over the summer on improving his type of play since 2024 his aggressive football has been found out and the defensive counter attacking football doesn’t work without Isak and our back line is too old and slow to do it consistently and Dan burn and trippier has shown.
Luke Edwards kiss of death.
Maybe give Eddie Howe better assistants who are stronger tactically or something like that. Maybe it’s the backroom staff that needs something new. It is gutwrenching to see how awful we are at managing a lead this season.
At least they’re (hopefully) not going to fuck to the summer again.
I divvint think we’ll replace him properly if we sacked him for one, and I think the effort showed by some of the players recently (cough cough, *Tino*), is downright pathetic, and given what he’s done for us he’s earned the chance to work with the sporting directors, have a mass clear out, implement the signing model Ross Wilson wants, and take us into the future. If by the end of the summer he still hasn’t built an attack around a striker who isn’t Isak, and the performances are still dismal, aye we can have a chat about getting rid, but I think theres bigger problems at this club than the coaching staff.
A comment on here earlier suggested Howe could take us down to league 2 and not get sacked, thought it was a funny joke turns out it’s probably true
Another summer to spunk obscene amounts of money on subpar players – whilst also, by the sounds of things, ringing the “come buy our best players” bell nice and early. Pathetic.
It’s a refreshing contrast from regular reactionary sacking of managers in PL. I’m interested to see how he does next season.
A larger concern for me is that a lot of the players signed, even from PL, take way too much time to settle. Essentially, Ramsey and Elanga are becoming useful only now, at the end of the season. Probability is that anybody coming in summer might be a deadweight for most of the season.
“Newcastle will not sell Alexander Isak – This is why” – Luke Edwards (2025)
Does this mean if any player basically says I want to go that’s it gone then?
We’ve just this season got our house in order on the executive level. A good, calm summer and we kick on and do better next year.
I’m not Howe-out but being totally honest I do struggle to see him turning this around and us into a team that doesn’t get a regular thrashing or collapses in the second half of every game. How often does it reach this point with a manager and then they pull it around and prove everyone wrong? Not very often
I want him gone, but there is a path to keeping him for me. His nephew needs to go, I don’t want to dox myself but I know that he is not liked in rhe building. He needs to show he’s willing to adapt the playstyle, and sign players that show this.
Jesus christ. Yeah – please get Eric Ten Hag ASAP. Get your shit together. It is no fun to loose to unwashed but be carefull what you wish for.
We had a shit summer, we bought players we normally wouldn’t due to rat being rat. We had shit luck with injuries to our best players. Just look at injury charts in PL and we are there at the top.
Howe gave Hall, Burn, Gordon and Livramento full england caps. Now Barnes is called in too and a matter of time for Miley…
Osula is getting a call up. Joelinton debuted for Brazil during his tume while Bruno is a regular.
Are you fucking blind?
We struck a goldmine with this dude.
There is a one sad fact you keep forgeting – we dont have the same pull as chelsea, liverpool or man utd and we are foreced to feed on their scraps and he still can get a result against them or finish above some of them
Correct call. We’re stuck in a bit of a cycle right now where we qualify for Europe then have a poor next season and I think it’s due to squad depth as a result of financial restrictions. When we don’t qualify for Europe we have another great year and qualify again and then the cycle repeats. I don’t think we’re stuck in this cycle because of Eddie.
I’m Howe Out but I’m also very supportive of giving Eddie another year provided his nephew gets sacked if he’s not willing to resign.
Even if you somehow argue his unqualified nephew has done a good job, the conflict of interest is too high for recruitment to be considered (from an optics point of view) as being carried out at arms’ length from the manager.
Andy Howe must go simply because it is the only way to have confidence in both the manager and recruitment.
If Eddie is willing to die on this very strange hill for the sake of his nephew’s job then he can leave the club and take his nephew with him.
I do hope we give him the summer and into next season.
The corporate merry-go-round behind the scenes has been an absolute shitshow which has impacted this season. Summer was a shambles. No idea to what extent Howe is responsible for any of that, but blame can’t all be placed at his door.
Not sure whether the pressure will get too much over the next couple of months though for either side to keep their powder dry.
This is the same guy who backed Steve Bruce to the very end, not sure why anyone gives him the time of day.
Howe Out is a wild angle to me.
Everyone from 5th to 13th is separated by 7 points. This season is disappointing, yeah, but if we’re three results off CL places, that’s unlucky, not performance warranting sacking.
Missed out his 3rd, which having been very lucky not to qualify from the “group of death” and the worse cup draws in history, he finished 7th only missing out on Europe as city shit the bed as they were still pissed.
I dont expect them to sack him mid season, but they must know at this point that you can’t lose both derbys and keep the fanbase as a whole on your side. I also don’t get the feeling there is a huge amount of unity or desire in the dressing room at the moment, quite a few of those players look like their heads are already in the transfer window…
I doubt the fans are going to turn like they did with Bruce, we are nowhere near that level of frustration, but we are going to start to see apathy creep in, the nerves quieten the stadium, and we have already seen the boos become a common way to end the game.
Whether the club like it or not, and whether the fans who disagree with this stance like it or not, the divide in the fanbase is now going to be very hard to ignore, and is only going to get harder to turn back. If we are not already past the tipping point, we are at best, very close to it.
Howe has been quite open when under pressure and asked questions that he will walk if he doesn’t feel like he is the right man for the job. I suspect the club and him will have that discussion in the summer, and there is a reasonably high chance that they part of mutual terms.
…unless of course that was just scripted manager talk.
I’m still fairly confident that what we’re seeing is the exposed reality of where the club itself actually is (CL seasons) vs what Howe can provide as manager of this club (4th and 5th place finishes). That’s not to say Howe is perfect or innocent, he has things to work on, but logic tells you it will balance out over time, especially if we continue to yo-yo into the CL which brings money and reputation.
We’re one or two windows away from being rid of most, if not all of the remains from Bruce. PSR and all that have really hampered our ability to rebuild a squad, so we had to do it bit by bit over years. I still believe in Howe, but this coming season will be his last chance, and I think he’d be sacked if it started poorly.
After the internationals with no distractions let’s see what he can do with this squad in the remaining games, with basically zero injuries (Bruno should be back).
I understand the angle but that being said this is not a serious club as they know most of the fan base are happy clappers
It’s the hamstrung nature of FFP, which restricts a club’s ability to invest and compete across multiple competitions. It happened with us the first time around, then Villa, and then us again.
Let’s not forget we had 15 years of impoverished investment and poor commercial deals at best from Mike Ashley.
I’m Howe out. I don’t apologise for that.
But fair enough give him another year as long as he is completely and utterly stripped of any say or influence on transfer dealings. He just spunked 250mill up the wall last summer on players who, apart from Thiaw, are mostly useless. Giving him any say in that will set us back half a decade or longer.
The problem with drawing an opinion on next season will be no champions league, so we will probably get slightly better by default as more rested legs and more training time.
He will be successful next season becuase we won’t have European football to deal with. It’s the season in Europe that’s the problem. Being in and out I messing up with our progress and is the reason why we will keep getting millions less than other teams in European competitions.
“Sporting director Ross Wilson will lead recruitment and Newcastle want to sign younger players from across Europe to rejuvenate the squad and lower the average age. Major upheaval has been ruled out, but this still promises to be a Newcastle 2.0-style relaunch.”
Sounds good. At least the club realise Eddie and his clown nephew wasted £250m.
He needs to go – Mancini won the prem for city and was out. You need to make sacrifices to get to the top and Eddie clearly isn’t good enough, he a great manager if he can focus on the league. Qualify for Europe and he is clueless. And player seem to have zero respect for our club, talking to other teams and looking uninterested. Honestly I would sack the lot from top to bottom.
So basically the message to the Howe out brigade is “try harder”.
Howe’s main problem is that his tactics aren’t scalable. If we don’t get Europe next season then we’ll be like we were last season and the other season we got the champions league. But when we get the champions league again we need to play like Palace, Everton and Arsenal where we find a way to score and then drag the game out.
So I think give Howe another season but then get some tactician to keep us there if we do replace bim
I wonder for how long can we fall back on the “remember the old days, remember how bad things used to be”. Having them on and off seasons is bit annoying.