Eddie Howe is the positive face of Newcastle. Paul Mitchell is seen as the grump who wants to bring his happy-go-lucky colleague down. And he has the power.
If Eddie Howe and Paul Mitchell are uneasy bedfellows, as current reports would have you believe, then there is a desire to portray them as Bert and Ernie.
For the moment, things appear to be in a state of detente; if Newcastle were determined to show Howe the door, they would surely have done so already. The question is how much time he will continue to get. But any sporting director’s remit naturally includes looking at managerial appointments, and it’s hard not to think that Mitchell will have that at the back of his mind this season if he feels things are not going to plan on the pitch.Mitchell will be also mindful of the fact that Bournemouth spent an awful lot of money in their last Premier League spell only to wind up getting relegated under Howe, with defensive problems a constant issue under his command.
spending much of their victory over Tottenham Hotspur under pressure before masterfully slicing them open Having fallen eight points short of the top four last season and seen how his squad struggled to deal with the addition of European football, Howe might secretly be relieved that Chelsea pipped Newcastle into sixth last season and that Manchester United claimed the final European place by winning the FA Cup. He should therefore have an easier job keeping his players on their sharpest league form than most of his rivals at that end of the division.
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