'The new owners of Newcastle United have already dropped more than half a billion pounds on the club, and they will be expecting returns and continuing improvement. For how much longer can Eddie Howe deliver that?' twoht
, and supporters who made the 300-mile journey from Newcastle to London by train couldn’t even drown their sorrows on the way home.
On that journey there was a lot to chew over, because 2023 hasn’t exactly been as successful for Newcastle United as 2022. In the league, form has stuttered, with the team having won just one of its last seven games while failing to score more than a single goal in any of them. Sure, their net spend has outstripped almost everybody else in the Premier League, but this has to be put into the context that Newcastle haven’t been able to sell many players for much money, because none of those they’d like to get rid of are really worth that much.
The only slight disappointment so far has been Alexander Isak, but this has been at least in part due to circumstances beyond the player’s control. Isak exploded into the team with two goals in his first three games at the start of the season, but a hamstring injury left him on the sidelines until the new year and, after having only scored once since his return to action in January, he was left out of the EFL Cup final team in favour of Callum Wilson.
None of this is to say that his replacement is anything like inevitable, or that what he has achieved since his time with the club hasn’t been hugely successful. The supporters still seem to be on his side, and the team’s position is still considerably higher than it was when he was appointed.
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