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Lose to survive? The dissonance that confuses Newcastle players in the new era - Walla! sport

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The Magpies have yet to win this season, but the players know they will be replaced by stars if they stay in the league. Will Eddie Howe give credit to the Bournemouth striker and allow the captain to continue to lead?


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Lose to survive?

The dissonance that confuses Newcastle players in the new era

The Magpies have yet to win this season, but the players know they will be replaced by stars if they stay in the league.

Will Eddie Howe, who accepted the challenge refused by Onai Emery and Eric the brother, give credit to the star from his time at Bournemouth and to the captain who overall wants to continue to lead his teammates?

On an impossible situation in the north of England

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Michael Yochin

Saturday, November 27, 2021, 9 p.m.

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Summary: Brighton - Newcastle 1: 1 (Sport 1)

Newcastle is waiting for January.

The new owners from the Saudi government fund, which is not affiliated with the government at all according to the lie published by the league management to approve the dubious purchase deal, have no financial restrictions - except for those set by regulators.

If they are allowed, the goal is to build the most glittering and expensive squad that will compete at the top and qualify for the Champions League in the near future.

Currently, however, the team is ranked last, and the immediate task is to prevent a decline.

There is a built-in dissonance here, and it will not be trivial to deal with it, even after opening the long-awaited transfer window.

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It is enough to look at the new coach's searches to understand the distress.

Newcastle made no secret of the fact that Antonio Conte was the preferred candidate for the job, but the chances of signing him were zero from the start, and it took management a while to internalize it.

The salary offered to Ajax coach Eric Tan the brother was particularly generous, and the intention was to bring with him from Amsterdam also Mark Obermars as the sporting director, but both responded in full.

They make a crazy living in the Champions League, so why go to a team that is fighting at the bottom?

Even if you put aside the moral aspects, from a net sporting point of view this is not the right time.

With Unai Emery the contacts progressed a little further, so much so that the Newcastle people did not hesitate to leak to the media that the signing was approaching.

This was a mistake, because the Basque's deliberation was substantial, and he chose not to leave Villarreal.

Life in the yellow submarine is more fun than in the gloomy boat in the north-east of England that claims to be a cruise ship.

Not afraid of underground battles.

Howe (Photo: GettyImages, Jack Thomas)

"We need someone who's not afraid of bottom battles," Amanda Stabley said when Eddie Howe was finally appointed. Its share in Newcastle is small, only 10 per cent, but it currently serves as the project's 'foreign minister' because for political reasons it is more convenient to hide the Saudis from the spotlight. Indeed, Hao is no stranger to survival struggles. As Bournemouth manager, he lost in such a fight in the 2019/20 season, leaving the cherries after they were relegated to the sub-league. Since then he has been waiting for the new challenge, and professionally Newcastle suits him like a glove - both the immediate challenge interests him, unlike the Conte or Tan Brother, and the future challenge, because he has long been aiming for bigger clubs, and was often on the hot job list At Arsenal.



After presenting his strategy in the admissions interview, Howe received a clear promise that he would have a major impact on transfer market activity, but here he may face a dramatic psychological issue - how do you manage your existing staff when most players know the team wants to replace them?

This is not the routine healthy situation, where every player knows he must give the maximum to prove his place in the squad.

This time the business is more complex, because even if the existing players give the maximum, they will not be relevant in January, or in the summer if the team stays in the league.

How will he remember the days of Bournemouth?

Wilson (Photo: Reuters)

Callum Wilson's case is the most intriguing of them all. There is no player who knows Howe better - the two have spent together in perfect harmony in Bournemouth for 6 whole seasons. After the relegation, Wilson was sold to Newcastle on a star-studded basis for the club for £ 20m, and did not disappoint with 12 league goals last year and four conquests in eight games this season. Mentioned as candidates - led by Mauro Icardi who does not get many minutes in Paris Saint-Germain. What will be Wilson's motivation in this situation? And how can Howe decide his fate in the face of deep friendship?



Take, for example, Captain Jamal Lasles.

He has been playing for Newcastle since 2015, was a key figure in his promotion to the Premier League in 2017, and has tremendous power in the locker room, but his level - which suited the existing squad - no longer meets the demands of the new squad expected to be built.

The media reports that the new owners are interested in brakes with technical skills that are able to steer the game from behind, and Lasles will no longer acquire these skills at the age of 28. Is he able to continue to lead his teammates when already in January he may be pushed to the bench?

And how is Hao supposed to handle it until then?

Can the captain continue to lead?

Lasles (Photo: GettyImages, George Wood)

This is not trivial at all. In practice, existing players are required to save the team so that they can be flipped aside at the first opportunity. They also know that the better Newcastle's situation is towards the opening of the transfer window, the easier it will be for the new management to convince more brilliant stars. According to this logic, a resounding failure in the coming weeks may help them maintain their place, because if Newcastle's chances of survival in the Premier League are perceived as low in January, Icardi will not be happy to come - even so his wife and Anda are not thrilled about moving from Paris to the gray and rainy city.



"The December game schedule is tough, and we'll have to rise," Howe declares.

He talks about the series of meetings against Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Everton.

Until then, the Magpies have a visit to London at Arsenal on Saturday, and two home games against the direct rivals at the bottom - Norwich and Burnley.

If they fail to achieve a first win in these meetings, they could come away with zero victories by the end of the calendar year, and the gap from 17th place could be particularly worrying.

The "foreign minister" is aware of the danger of decline.

Stabley (Photo: GettyImages, Stu Forster)

"I'm convinced we're good enough to avoid relegation, but I'm not promising anything," Howe says, because he knows very well how unpredictable this game is. "There is a danger of relegation, and we are aware of that. We could have waited until January, seen where the team was, and made the purchase only then, but we took a gamble. If we had not bought now, it would never have happened. We had to take a risk, and Eddie Howe risks now "Together with us. I think he will do an amazing job," Stabley claims.



Meanwhile, the new owners are making a supreme effort to maintain the positive momentum in the social realm. The Saudi deal was heavily criticized in the British media, but most Newcastle fans who were fed up with former owner Mike Ashley expressed unreserved enthusiasm. In order to strengthen the bond formed with them, PR exercises are done, such as symbolic donations to charity that get big headlines on local websites. The task is to convey opposite messages from Ashley, and it is actually very easy to carry out given the previous boss' blatant disregard of the public will.

On the grass and in the locker room the challenges are much more significant, and the ambitions in the transfer window do not exactly fit the last place in the table where the team is these days.

Secretly, there may be quite a few players on the roster who would have preferred to preserve the previous situation, and Howe's challenge will be to find the golden path between their desire to remain relevant in the new project and the implementation of the revolutionary changes.

He has never experienced such a dissonance at Bournemouth, which has zealously maintained the continuity in the roster that Haw has taken to the top from the depths of the fourth division, and it will be very interesting to see how he navigates the business now.

It's hard to say that most English fans outside of Newcastle are keeping their fingers crossed for him.

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