{"id":589499,"date":"2026-04-17T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:34:11","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-andoni-iraola-arne-slot-devastated-for-hugo-ekitike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589499\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences: Andoni Iraola & Eddie Howe speaking; Arne Slot ‘devastated’ for Hugo Ekitike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howe to be asked about Saudi owners’ commitmentpublished at 10:28 BST<\/p>\n

10:28 BST<\/p>\n

Newcastle v Bournemouth (Sat, 15:00 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Ciaran Kelly
BBC Sport reporter<\/p>\n

\"YasirImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

It is rare golf and football cross over at a head coach’s news conference.<\/p>\n

But Eddie Howe is likely to face questions today about the ongoing commitment of Newcastle United’s majority owners, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)<\/p>\n

This comes amid mounting speculation that the PIF is set to pull financial support for LIV Golf.<\/p>\n

It is a huge story in the world of sport, but there is a reason why Howe’s thoughts will have been dominated by the visit of former club Bournemouth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This may be a game between two sides in the bottom half in the
\nfinal weeks of the campaign, but it feels like a significant afternoon for Newcastle, who are languishing in 14th place.<\/p>\n

Newcastle are certainly going to have to offer so much
\nmore than they did in 2-1 defeat against Crystal Palace last week.<\/p>\n

If that was meant to be a response to a bruising Tyne-Wear
\nderby defeat, well, it ended up being an all too familiar story as yet more
\npoints were thrown away from a winning position.<\/p>\n

Expect Howe to be asked about the need to rally and the uncertainty surrounding the futures of a number of key players,
\nincluding Anthony Gordon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howe to be asked about Saudi owners’ commitmentpublished at 10:28 BST 10:28 BST Newcastle v Bournemouth (Sat, 15:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-589499","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\/589499","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=589499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}