Eddie Howe's Newcastle faces a crucial Carabao Cup semi-final against Arsenal, with their trophy hopes and potential rebuild plans hanging in the balance. Howe's desire to end the club's long trophy drought collides with the need to manage key player suspensions and secure Champions League qualification. A decision on the £1 billion St James' Park redevelopment is also expected soon.
Eddie Howe is desperate to end a long trophy drought as decision awaited over potential rebuild of St James’ Parkeither leading his team out at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final or rewatching videos of the previous day’s scheduled
Given that two of his key players, Bruno Guimarães and Fabian Schär – crucially, Howe’s sole fit right-footed centre half – are suspended for the visit to the Emirates Stadium,Yet even if Newcastle’s hopes of reaching a second Carabao Cup final in three seasons are left in tatters, a second Champions League qualification within the same time frame could still be within touching distance.
The alternative is to invest three times that sum and construct a new, potentially matchday-revenue doubling, 75,000-capacity stadium elsewhere in the city. Newcastle await confirmation on whether plans to rebuild St James’ Park will go ahead. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA-EFE Given that the other 51 per cent is owned by seven local councils, with profits used partly to fund vital local services, a PIF-led increase in flights, passengers and billions of pounds worth of cargo could yet fulfil the Saudi’s grandiose pledges to help level up the northeast by boosting the regional economy significantly.
With that latter vision impeded by Premier League profitability and sustainability rules that restrict Newcastle’s spending power until their commercial revenue streams catch up with the owners’ ambition, a manager anxious to become the first English coach to lift the League Cup since Steve McClaren in 2004 knows time could be against him on Tyneside.
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