{"id":26243,"date":"2025-07-28T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26243\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:50:08","slug":"eddie-howe-issues-honest-verdict-on-how-hes-feeling-about-william-osula-starting-for-newcastle-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26243\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe issues honest verdict on how he’s feeling about William Osula starting for Newcastle United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eddie Howe will need a lot more from William Osula at Newcastle United next season. <\/p>\n

While Newcastle rate Osula highly behind the scenes<\/a>, the prospect of him starting the season as their main source of goals is a worry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old didn\u2019t start a Premier League<\/a> game last season and scored only two goals in his limited game time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not so much a criticism of Osula<\/a> himself, just that it\u2019s clear he remains a developing talent. <\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s looking increasingly likely that Howe<\/a> will need to lean on the Danish U21 international a touch more next season. <\/p>\n

Indeed, Callum Wilson has left and Alexander Isak wants to follow suit. Newcastle <\/a>haven\u2019t signed a forward and, if Isak goes too, they will need to bring in two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Osula looks to be the only recognised forward guaranteed to play for Newcastle next season. <\/p>\n

He played a large part of the game against Arsenal in a pre-season<\/a> defeat on Sunday and Howe delivered his verdict. <\/p>\n

\"WilliamPhoto by Serena Taylor\/Newcastle United via Getty ImagesEddie Howe thinks William Osula is getting better<\/p>\n

The Newcastle United manager<\/a> was asked about Osula\u2019s performance against the Gunners shortly after the game. <\/p>\n

Howe said Osula had improved upon his outing against Celtic last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting more minutes than maybe he would if we had more players in that position,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great chance for him to showcase what he brings, what he\u2019s about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought today was a much better performance from him from the Celtic game. I thought he looked fitter and sharper, naturally through the work that we\u2019ve done. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a couple of chances to score. His attitude was very good, and he looked hungry to get in the right positions to try and score. So, I thought he can be really pleased today.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

William Osula stats for Newcastle United against Arsenal <\/p>\n

Clearly, it would be unwise to read too much into a pre-season game. Players are still getting fit and it was a hot and humid atmosphere out in Singapore. <\/p>\n

Arsenal vs Newcastle statisticsWilliam OsulaMinutes played74Touches17Shots0Shots on target1Key passes1Passing accuracy100%William Osula\u2019s stats for Newcastle United against Arsenal, data via Sofa Score<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a brilliant day at the office for the 21-year-old, however. <\/p>\n

As per Sofa Score data, he mustered only one shot in 74 minutes of action and it did not hit the target. <\/p>\n

Osula had 17 touches, played one key pass and left the field with a passing accuracy of 100%. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe will need a lot more from William Osula at Newcastle United next season. While Newcastle rate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,12018,596,85,25464],"class_list":["post-26243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eddie-howe","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-william-osula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}