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On the back of Paul Mitchell’s big interview last week and a frustrating end to a poor summer at Newcastle, Eddie Howe was asked about our sporting director and transfer strategy today.
Howe was quizzed on Mitchell’s claim that our previous approach to transfers hasn’t always been ‘fit for purpose’ and reports from The Mail’s Craig Hope suggesting there is a ‘civil war’ behind the scenes.
“Absolutely not in my experience” was Howe’s response to the ‘civil war’ claims, but he did defend Newcastle’s previous transfer business before Mitchell’s arrival, feeling the “results were very good”, no matter what people may think of the structures in place.
Asked about Mitchell’s interview, Howe said: “Well, I think it’s really important there is transparency from the club and the financial situation that we have is not only discussed by me because, with all due respect to me, I’m not a numbers and figures guy. I’m a football man.
“That isn’t my field of speciality, and I don’t pretend that it is. So I think it’s good that we have different people communicating about those areas.”
On Mitchell’s ‘fit for purpose’ comment, Howe added: “I think a few things on that. I’m very, very proud of every single player that we signed in that period. It is very easy to look back at any transfer window and make a judgement on the players you have signed three years down the line.
“But you have to go back to the situation when we were in those moments, in the relegation zone and trying to recruit players. That is not an easy thing to do. You’re also recruiting not just for the short term, but for the long term. When you look back, that work was good.
“Our objective was to stay in the league, so I’m not going to critique every signing, but I’m very, very proud of the body of work that we did and the players that we have now from the legacy of those transfer windows.
“We love them to bits. So I think it’s…
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Author : Olly Hawkins
Publish date : 2024-09-13 10:37:07
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