Head coach Eddie Howe is among those leading figures who will give his perspective, as was always planned.<\/p>\n
Howe’s future has come under increased scrutiny following a bruising run of nine defeats in 12 games in the league.<\/p>\n
He has said this year’s summit will be “slightly harder”, but stressed he is looking forward to a rare opportunity to address chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan and minority owner Jamie Reuben in person.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure there will be conversations on the team and how we have performed,” he said. “I sort of welcome that to a degree.”<\/p>\n
Newcastle<\/a>‘s owners certainly need no reminding of Howe’s body of work after appointing him in 2021.<\/p>\n Howe took charge of a winless side deep in relegation trouble, but went on to end Newcastle<\/a>‘s 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy by lifting the Carabao Cup last season. They also qualified for the Champions League in 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n However, this campaign has been his most testing yet, which is saying something. Only relegated Burnley<\/a> and Wolves<\/a> have lost more Premier League games than Newcastle<\/a>‘s 16.<\/p>\n Howe’s ability to outperform clubs with bigger wage bills has been a trademark for much of this time at Newcastle<\/a>, but his side find themselves below Crystal Palace<\/a>, Sunderland<\/a>, Everton<\/a>, Fulham<\/a>, Brentford<\/a>, Bournemouth<\/a> and Brighton<\/a> in the table with four games to go.<\/p>\n There is some mitigation.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a> have played 54 matches in all competitions, which is uncharted territory for the group, who reached the last 16 of the Champions League and a third League Cup semi-final in four years.<\/p>\n This drained side have been knocked back by injuries to influential players like captain Bruno Guimaraes at key moments.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a> are also still feeling the effects of a turbulent transfer window last summer.<\/p>\n David Hopkinson and Ross Wilson have since arrived, but the club operated without a chief executive and sporting director during a pivotal trading period.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a> missed out on a host of top transfer targets, including Joao Pedro, Hugo Ekitike, Benjamin Sesko and James Trafford, and have seen little return from a \u00a3100m-plus net recruitment drive that Howe was heavily involved in.<\/p>\n Finally, having decided to hold firm for so long, Newcastle<\/a> ultimately buckled and sold Alexander Isak on deadline day after the striker pushed to join Liverpool<\/a> for a British record \u00a3125m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Eddie Howe is among those leading figures who will give his perspective, as was always planned.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-633882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}