Newcastle coach Eddie Howe appeals: “Everyone plays for their future”

After three losses in a row

With the help of a positive run of eight games without defeat, Newcastle United managed to jump out of the bottom of the Premier League table in the first months of the year – after three bankruptcies in a row, including the 1-5 at Tottenham Hotspur, the “Magpies” lost again on ground. A tendency that coach Eddie Howe criticized in clear words before Friday’s upcoming duel with Wolverhampton (from 9 p.m. in the TM live ticker). The team is playing for its future, said the 44-year-old.

The words of the trainer seem piquant, especially in view of the planned squad change in the summer. Although this should not be as lavish as once thought in favor of the financial fair play regulations, Newcastle, with the support of the Saudi investment fund PIF, is likely to make adjustments to several positions. In the last winter transfer window, the club had already invested more money than any other club in the world with 102 million euros, four contracts in the Howes squad also expire at the end of the season. A few weeks ago, the English “Times” published a list of seven candidates for pranks, the purchase value of which amounts to around 72 million euros – the paper spoke somewhat flippantly of a “clearing out” in this context.

After the latest results and with a view to the fact that Burnley, who already won against Everton on Wednesday evening, could close the gap to within four points of the “Magpies” (in the current Premier League table) with a win over Norwich at the weekend, Howe appealed now to the honor of his team: “Everyone always plays for their future. Every day in training I assess the character and attitude of the players and that shows what kind of professional they really are,” said the coach. He is not a friend of big speeches, but in certain situations you have to “speak openly and honestly” – he has also changed the way he deals with his players in view of the situation.

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“Last week was a tough experience for us and nobody linked to the club liked what they saw. (…) We have to show people a better version of ourselves. We are not happy with ourselves. We have evaluated what went wrong and we will try to correct it.” His team now has to react in front of their home crowd against Wolverhampton: “Everyone knows how important this game is. We need that feeling across the stadium that this is a massive, massive match.” Newcastle are currently seven points a game more than the relegation zone.

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