Newcastle: Eddie Howe is doing perfectly, but the board is destroying itself. Newcastle -Transfer Window -Problem-Analyzed
Srećko Šijaković 
Newcastle has been a rising club project for the past few seasons. They have secured their place in the Champions League this season and achieved great success in the Premier League under Eddie Howe’s management. From the promotion in the elite and relegation battle to a secured Premier League side, with a good young and promising manager behind the project.
They have built a very talented and compact team, featuring stars such as Gordon, Isak, Tonali, the Brazilian Bruno Guimarães, Joelinton, this season’s very good English national team player, and Livramento. Not-so-quality players who are experienced and can give a very good defensive impact with tackles and good clearances, like Burn and Schar.
Meanwhile in Newcastle
The season has finished, but something big has been happening in Newcastle at the transfer window opener. This transfer window will be something special for Newcastle; it was visible in the beginning. It has entered the annals of the bad, leading the club during the transfer window; they just thought the Newcastle environment was the most attractive for the players.
Newcastle has entered into many transfer talks about new signings. They have been very arrogant by trying to sign star players; they were in so many transfer talks, but no player wanted to play for Newcastle United. They chose another club simply because they are bigger and they like the other club’s project rather than Newcastle. They received so many rejections in the transfer market that they haven’t signed anyone; all players left for more desirable surroundings and different clubs.
They lost so many important targets, but summer was only just beginning. The scouts and the board of Newcastle weren’t giving up, even though they were spreading their interests and losing even more in the market.
Of all their targets, they only signed Wissa, who wanted to go to Newcastle from the beginning, due to reasons of further development under Eddie Howe.
At the end of the transfer window, they bought Woltemade from Stuttgart. Bayern didn’t want to pay the amount asked, like other interested clubs, so Newcastle paid more than 80 million.
That is how Newcastle can be competitive in the market. They need to overpay; they have learned that. This has been a lesson; they can’t have top talent, they have to pay very big money, and they signed Woltemade. They can sing a top target player if he wants or likes their club’s project, like Wissa did.
So it is obvious that this has affected their ambition very seriously. The players needed to be out of this story, which was very hard. This season, the results are not as good as expected. Newcastle’s project is in trouble, strictly caused by the board with their idea of signing the most expensive target. The team is hurt strictly because of their arrogance and not having the slightest idea of predicting the transfer market movements. Howe hasn’t done anything bad; he has given his self to the project. Howe was also for Isak’s departure, unlike the board.
The serious concern is that Newcastle might lose Eddie Howe as their first-team manager, as he has done an excellent job so far, but the club hasn’t been able to sign proper transfer targets. He has reached a possible level with Newcastle, and he can easily go somewhere else, to another Premier League club, where he will be appreciated for his work and knowledge.
The board has jeopardized Howe’s project by not being able to properly estimate its situation in the market, and it could go on the manager’s behalf, as seen in the inability to reach players for the project.
Eddie Howe has spent many years in the club and deserves maximum respect for this, but maybe he was wrong.
When Isak, who was wanted by Liverpool, became a target, Newcastle were so arrogant that they wouldn’t let their best player go unless an offer of 120 million came. By doing this, they ruined every moment Isak has had with Newcastle. He was their prime player, giving his best at the club; he was loyal and wanted to achieve his career dream of signing a contract with the great Liverpool. The saddest thing is, he left Newcastle only because Liverpool met the asking price.
If they treat their players like this, how will they treat Gordon as an example? How will they treat their other players? No wonder they have lost all the battles. How will they treat Eddie Howe?
The Newcastle board members don’t understand football well, especially the Premier League. They are very arrogant; they see only the money they will get for their Champions League campaign, which was earned and achieved by the players and Eddie Howe. If Newcastle continues with this kind of result in December, their Premier League position might not be good, so the board might get the lunatic idea to sack Howe. They are a small club for a reason; they really are.
So Eddie Howe can go somewhere else in the Premier League where he would be much more appreciated and very successful. There, he will not need to deal with situations like he did with Alexander Isak, when he was constantly calming things down in press conferences and helping Isak.
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