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Arne Slot<\/a> said he does not have sympathy for Eddie Howe<\/a> over the Alexander Isak affair<\/a> \u2013 but has revealed that his Newcastle<\/a> counterpart is the only Premier League<\/a> manager he texts.<\/p>\n

Isak is set to sit out Monday\u2019s meeting between the two clubs after Liverpool<\/a> had a \u00a3110m bid for him rejected, with the Sweden striker accusing Newcastle of breaking promises to him<\/a> and suggesting his relationship with them is damaged beyond repair.<\/p>\n

But while Newcastle will be deprived of a player who scored 23 Premier League goals last season and are unlikely to field a specialist striker against Liverpool at St James\u2019 Park, Slot said he does not feel sorry for Howe as the saga drags on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn general I have sympathy for Eddie Howe because he is a great human being, he\u2019s always polite, so that is my general feeling about him. It\u2019s maybe not a coincidence that I\u2019ve texted with him because I think he\u2019s a very nice and honest, polite colleague. For the rest, I don\u2019t need to have sympathy for a manager that can still have the availability of [Anthony] Gordon, [Jacob] Murphy, [Anthony] Elanga, [Harvey] Barnes. You don\u2019t need to have sympathy for a manager who has so many good players in his squad.<\/p>\n

\"Alexander<\/p>\n

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Alexander Isak wants out of Newcastle (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in general, I like him and I don\u2019t think it will be a surprise to anyone if eventually he is going to lead the national team of England as well. Good human being and a very good manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slot said he is closer to Howe than any other Premier League manager. The Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes worked with Howe at Bournemouth and Slot, who readily admitted Newcastle deserved to beat his side in March\u2019s Carabao Cup final, got his number from the Scot. <\/p>\n

The Dutchman is unsure if relations between the two clubs have soured at boardroom level but expects that he and Howe will still get on well.<\/p>\n

\"Arne<\/p>\n

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Arne Slot is closer to Eddie Howe than any other Premier League manager (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only [Premier League] manager I’ve ever texted with was Eddie Howe,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn Holland I texted with a few more, but after the League Cup final we did exchange a few messages. If I see him I will be the same as I was last year, and I expect nothing different from him as well. On a higher level, I have no clue. For me it’s still the same relationship with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like we are friends and we are going to go on holiday together. He\u2019s a good manager, he\u2019s always very respectful to other managers as well. He\u2019s always calm standing there. I like him as a manager and as a person. There\u2019s a connection between my sports director and him as well. My sports director has his number. Maybe he doesn\u2019t have all the numbers of all the other managers, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-108580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}