Due to the presence of Fabian Schar and Dan Burn, the German had to be patient and wait for Howe to give him opportunities. However, a concussion for the former gave him a moment to shine, and he grabbed it with both hands.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old has made 10 starts in a row and has become a bedrock of Newcastle\u2019s defence, one that is admittedly struggling as they languish in the bottom half of the table. They conceded three times to relegation-threatened West Ham on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2018A\u00a0player we\u2019d known for a long, long time\u2019<\/p>\n
NewcastleWorld<\/a> relayed some comments from Howe on the impact that Thiaw has made<\/a>, starting with whether he has settled quicker than expected.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019ve played at the level that he\u2019s played at for the last few seasons and also for the size of club that\u2019s he has done, you hope that he can come in and handle everything that the Premier League has to offer, that he can handle playing for Newcastle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cHis experience \u2013 he\u2019s got really good experience in the game \u2013 has shone through. Off the pitch, he\u2019s been very, very calm, quite quiet, but very, very focused, and on the training pitch is where he\u2019s elevated his performances.<\/p>\n \u201cHe trained really well in those early weeks when he wasn\u2019t playing and that was crucial for him, that he didn\u2019t let the fact he didn\u2019t go straight into the team affect him and then when he got his opportunity, he was able to take it.<\/p>\n \u201cMalick was a player we\u2019d known for a long, long time and we\u2019d made various attempts to try and sign him and it hadn\u2019t quite worked out in previous windows. This window, it felt like everything might align a bit better in terms of his situation at his club, our need, available funds, there\u2019s a lot that goes into it and thankfully that was the case.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy transfer to complete, he\u2019s obviously very highly rated, but we were delighted to see off any other suitors and finally get him. It felt like a long pursuit but certainly worth the wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe has offered a bit of background on the pursuit of Malick Thiaw,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-271350","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\/271350","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=271350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"malick](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_GettyImages-2229802525.jpg\")
Photo: Serena Taylor\/Newcastle United via Getty Images<\/p>\n