Eddie Howe will discuss \u00adNewcastle\u2019s declining form with the club\u2019s Saudi Arabian majority owners when a high-powered contingent from Riyadh flies into the north for a \u00adscheduled board meeting next week.<\/p>\n
The delegation, led by Newcastle\u2019s chair, Yasir al-Rumayyan, from the Kingdom\u2019s Public Investment Fund will quiz Howe face-to-face on his team\u2019s run of eight defeats in 11 \u00adPremier League games. Before the meeting, Newcastle, who sit 14th, visit Arsenal on Saturday evening. Regardless of the result, Howe is expected to be afforded the chance to detail his recruitment and \u00adtraining plans for this summer. And while Rumayyan\u2019s backing for Howe remains typically opaque, there are no indications the 48-year-old will not be given the season\u2019s remaining five games to try to turn things around before an in-depth performance review at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Howe will be joined by several of the club\u2019s UK-based executives, including the chief executive, David Hopkinson, and the sporting director, Ross Wilson, for next week\u2019s meeting, during which the finalisation of plans to build a new training ground near Newcastle airport and the issue of whether to construct a new stadium or redevelop St James\u2019 Park will also be reviewed.<\/p>\n
Although the meeting is said to have been inked into the diary some weeks ago, it represents a rare visit from Rumayyan. He has not been seen on Tyneside since he attended the 3-2 home defeat against Liverpool<\/a> in August. At that time, the controversial \u00a3125m transfer of Alexander Isak<\/a> from Newcastle to the \u00adMerseyside club was coming to a conclusion. Eight months on, the board will doubtless debate the possible sale of, among others, Anthony Gordon.<\/p>\n Bayern Munich are reportedly interested in the England winger and Newcastle have made it clear they will demand around \u00a375m for his \u00adsignature. In an effort to avoid incurring a hefty fine for breaking European spending rules, they may also listen to offers for their England full-back Tino Livramento and Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe will discuss \u00adNewcastle\u2019s declining form with the club\u2019s Saudi Arabian majority owners when a high-powered contingent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-621754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621754","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=621754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}