Unless Howe does an absolutely incredible job by not only keeping them up but also getting them to rise way up the table then he will likely be toast even if they do stay up.
They will pay him off and get a big name in.
Howe is there to guide them back up from the Championship if they get relegated I suspect.

The pressure to succeed will be too much for Howe I reckon. I must admit the job has always been a bit of a poisoned chalice and even more so now. It will definitely not help Howe or the club that every neutral fan in the country will be hoping they fail. That is an awful lot of negative vibe to wade through.

No one is saying it, but is there something a bit fishy about Gary Hoffman's role as head of the PL in The PIF's takeover? In 2010 there was controversy when as head of Northern Rock he chose to use public money to sign a £10m sponsorship deal with Newcastle, despite the bank being nationalised as part of the government's bailout. Fast forward 11 years and he is given a vote of no confidence and forced to resign due to his role in the highly-questionable Newcastle takeover. Maybe it's coincidence but it does make you wonder if his wallet is looking a bit fatter these days.

Head of Saudi FA?

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Howe is there because he's the only manager who accepted the job. No other reason. They tried to get big-name managers in first and none of them wanted to come. So they signed up Howe. The same thing will happen in January when they try to bring in big-name players. Newcastle is NOT an attractive destination no matter how much money the club has. In a shrunken world where travel is easy and glamour is king, the plain fact is that the attraction of playing in exile in the frozen north midway between Leeds and Edinburgh is not an appealing proposition to players and, not much less importantly, not appealing to their wives and families either.

BBC reports today that "Newcastle are in a race with Roma to sign Hoffenheim's Austrian midfielder Florian Grillitsch, 26, in January." I wonder who he'll choose. Move to Rome and play for Mourinho? Or move to Newcastle (where's that?) and play for Eddie Howe (who's he?)? Not a tough decision I imagine. And Howe really adds to the problem. Do you think world-class players are going to leap at the chance to play for him? Nor do I. Newcastle not only wanted a big name manager. They NEEDED one because that would have given them at least some allure in recruiting players.

Don't give me the "big club/massive support" line either. Being a big club historically is all well and good, but it's over 50 years since Newcastle were anywhere near relevant. To today's players, that means nothing. Big clubs to today's players are the clubs that have won things in their lifetimes. Man City may not be as big as Newcastle historically, but they've been big for long enough now that today's top players can remember seeing them winning trophies when they were ten years old. That makes them relevant. Newcastle are not. Most of today's star names will have little idea who Newcastle are. Their distant geographical location only adds insult to injury. At best they're a well-supported regional team who won things a long, long time ago. Who cares?

All that money, at best, will enable Newcastle to attract a few mercenaries (and there are always a few out there, who care about money more than winning things) who are happy to cash in. We all know how the story ends with players like that. Just wait until January for proof.

Newcastle's resurgence, if it comes, will be the result of Howe building sensibly and slowly through shrewd transfers, investing in their academy and developing home-grown talent, and taking it step-by-step. My guess is that all that money driving an overnight transformation into a top-four team is nothing more than a pipe dream. Newcastle fans appear to be too stupid, or too busy dressing up as Arabs, to realise this. And I suspect sooner rather than later the Arabs will realise too, maybe for the first time ever, that there are some things no matter how awash you are in cash that money can't buy. Ask Everton. Look how far the big name manager (Ancellotti) and the big name player (James) got them. A one year stint on Merseyside and a mercenary galactico both of whom bailed at the first opportunity.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Actually there is a libel case going on at the moment about this. Roman says he wasn't a stooge for Putin.

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