Chris Waugh
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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But actually, it feels like there's going to have to be at least one step back before they can move a few steps forward.
And looking at it from the Howe point of view, I think that he...
felt, and I'm not trying to speak for him, but conversations around him, I think that maybe he felt that there needed to be a realignment publicly of what Newcastle are trying to achieve because going into the next season, if Newcastle fans think they're suddenly going to get back into the Champions League, if you look at the business they've actually done and the weakening of the team in the short to medium term as these younger players come in and try to develop, there probably hasn't been that full reset.
supporters look at it and i don't think they quite know what to expect because of what has been said publicly from both the ownership and at executive level as to where newcastle wants to get to so it feels like there's a bit of a disconnect there when they're signing these young players and yet in four years time they're meant to be competing for for all these potentially these major trophies going into the 2030 decade and then for the hierarchy i think in the next couple of years the idea is to get back into europe and build so that by the end of
of this decade revenues have progressed to a certain level so that Newcastle can spend more because they don't actually financial issue they don't have a funding issue what they have is a regulatory issue their ownership put in the maximum amount of money that they can within the regulations that exist but UEFA rules are even more stringent than Premier League rules and despite Newcastle not being in Europe ironically it's the European rules which are governing what they can and can't do in the market you look at the here and now
The reality of the situation is that a team that finished 12th last season in the Premier League has lost two of its best players and they've signed four young and exciting players but who probably aren't ready for the here and now.
They had a fundamental problem in goal and up front.
Both positions haven't been strengthened yet this summer.
And so it's difficult to see where Newcastle do progress in the short term.
And so for that reason, I think there is still a disconnect that needs to be communicated better from Newcastle as to what it is moving forward.
Where are they going to move?
What are they going to try and achieve over the course of the next few years?
Maybe the end goal is no different, but clearly the pathway to get there has changed dramatically to what maybe expectations were even two years ago.
I think there is a pattern.
I don't think it's necessarily that.
I mean, last summer, there was a lot of
arguments by, I think, supporters and other people within football that Newcastle set their sights too high on the players they tried to get in.
A, a lot of the players they went for were Premier League experience or came with a premium, but also they basically tried to go head-to-head with Chelsea for João Pedro, with Man City, as it turned out to be, for James Trafford, and Benjamin Sheshko going to Manchester United, Hugo Eketike going to Liverpool.
And really, Newcastle were always going to miss out to those clubs because of the cachet of them, but also because of the wages that could be offered.
And so I think there's been a reassessment going at this moment.
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