{"id":504916,"date":"2026-03-31T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:08","slug":"newcastle-club-not-looking-to-make-eddie-howe-change-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504916\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle: Club not looking to make Eddie Howe change ‘at the moment’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle United<\/a> chief executive David Hopkinson says he does not have a stance on the future of head coach Eddie Howe, but the club are “not looking to make a change at the moment”.<\/p>\n

Although Newcastle<\/a> reached the last 16 of the Champions League, and progressed to the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup for a third time in four seasons, this has been a bruising campaign for Howe’s side.<\/p>\n

After initially holding their own against Barcelona, Newcastle<\/a> capitulated at the Nou Camp this month – suffering a 7-2 defeat – before losing 2-1 against bitter rivals Sunderland<\/a> a few days later.<\/p>\n

Howe and his players were booed off by a section of supporters at St James’ Park following the damaging Tyne-Wear derby loss, which has left Newcastle<\/a> 12th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

But the hierarchy remains behind Howe, who led Newcastle<\/a> to Champions League qualification in 2023 and 2025, and ended the club’s seven-decade wait to win a major domestic trophy by lifting the EFL Cup last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While his backing was hardly unequivocal, this week Hopkinson stressed Newcastle<\/a> were currently “not having those conversations” about a change of manager.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have a stance on his future,” he said. “What I can tell you is that the derby loss hurt. <\/p>\n

“We take it seriously. There’s nothing within us that thinks, ‘Well, it’s just three points and on we go’. It has resonated.<\/p>\n

“I spent a couple of hours in a one-on-one lunch recently with Eddie and we talked through a multitude of things, including that.<\/p>\n

“Eddie is our manager. I expect to have a great run to the end of the season here and we will talk about the future when it’s time.<\/p>\n

“Right now, we’re focused on this season’s competition.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United chief executive David Hopkinson says he does not have a stance on the future of head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}