{"id":763770,"date":"2026-09-08T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:50:10","slug":"newcastle-were-preparing-for-months-for-eddie-howe-departure-ross-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763770\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle were ‘preparing for months’ for Eddie Howe departure – Ross Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaissle remains unbeaten in his first four games in charge of Newcastle<\/a> in all competitions.<\/p>\n

However, only three of the club’s eight summer signings – Lukas Hornicek, Amar Dedic and Nico Gonzalez – started in the 2-2 draw against Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It felt like a reminder of the time it will take some of the new arrivals to bed in during what Jaissle has repeatedly called a “transition phase”.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> have forecast a range of financial scenarios, depending on where the club finish this season, but Wilson maintained the German has not been set a specific target for the campaign.<\/p>\n

Hopkinson, though, reiterated that Newcastle<\/a>‘s ultimate ambition is to “consistently and credibly compete” for the top honours in the long run.<\/p>\n

After entering into a Uefa settlement, following a breach of the European football governing body’s financial rules, Hopkinson stressed Newcastle<\/a> needed to be compliant with the game’s regulations to do so.<\/p>\n

The Magpies have set out to boost revenues by 50% between now and 2030 – mainly through sponsorship deals – but trading players will remain a key part of the club’s strategy in order to reinvest.<\/p>\n

“We want to have players here who are on a journey with us,” Wilson said. <\/p>\n

“Equally, if some of those players’ journeys go at rapid speed, they might go somewhere else but, of course, that’s normal. That’s part of football.”<\/p>\n

Although Newcastle<\/a> had prepared for the departures of Anthony Gordon and Sandro Tonali, to Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> respectively, the club had never planned to lose talisman Bruno Guimaraes.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> also had to readjust during the window after top targets Victor Munoz and Johan Manzambi joined Liverpool<\/a> and Aston Villa<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n

However, aside from Guimaraes going to Arsenal<\/a>, Wilson claimed “everything else that happened during the window was part of the plan”.<\/p>\n

“That does not mean that every single player [who signed] was the number one name on our list, but that is never the case in any transfer window,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Clearly we were disappointed a couple of times but, again, that’s normal. <\/p>\n

“No club goes into the window and reaches the end getting every target they set out to get. If they say they did, it is a lie.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaissle remains unbeaten in his first four games in charge of Newcastle in all competitions. However, only three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-763770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763770","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=763770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}