Eddie Howe is to blame – Here’s the proof | OneFootball

Eddie Howe is the culprit.

He is the one you need to point the finger at.

Eddie Howe is the one to blame.

Here’s the proof.

Eddie Howe arrived at Newcastle United in November 2021.

The new NUFC Head Coach and the club’s new owners inherited a dire situation from Mike Ashley and Steve Bruce.

Newcastle United a total mess, on and off the pitch.

A weak and demoralised Newcastle United team and squad appeared nailed on to be relegated.

I want you to consider those two scenarios of what COULD have happened next, after Eddie Howe was appointed 40 months ago.

2021/22

Despite Eddie Howe’s best efforts, he can’t save Newcastle United from relegation. A third relegation in a Premier League season that kicked off under Mike Ashley.

2022/23

Eddie Howe masterminds an  instant return to the Premier League, United promoted as champions, as they were after the previous two relegations in seasons that kicked off under Ashley’s ownership, when Chris Hughton and Rafa Benitez did the business.

2023/24

After promotion, Eddie Howe manages to comfortably survive and stabilise Newcastle United back in the top tier with a 14th place finish.

Scenario Two

2021/22

Eddie Howe’s manages to save Newcastle United from relegation. A close thing but United battle to finish 17th and survive by one place.

2022/23

Building on that survival, Eddie Howe takes United up to 13th in the Premier League in his first full season with NUFC.

2023/24

Eddie Howe continues the upward trajectory, Newcastle United breaking into the top half in only his second full season, tenth place achieved at the end of this Premier League season.

After Scenario One and Scenario Two, I now want you to daydream about something else that might have happened…

However, this Scenario Three is simply daft, nobody would believe this could ever happen.

Scenario Three

2021/22

After a handful of matches to get himself to understand what he’d inherited and as a starting point to get this relegation-bound Newcastle United squad properly fit.

Eddie Howe then takes a Newcastle United team and squad that was nailed on for relegation, which picked up 11 points in its opening 19 games. He picked up 38 points in the final 19 games (only Liverpool and Man City pick up as many points, or more, in that full second half of the 2021/22 season, instead of certain relegation, Eddie Howe taking United to 11th place by the end of the season on 49 points. Newcastle actually finish only three points off eighth spot.

2022/23

An astonishing first full season for Eddie Howe.

Ending the season in fourth place and 71 points, automatic Champions League qualification.

Eddie Howe also takes Newcastle to their first cup final in 24 years.

2023/24

Newcastle United experience the worst ever season in their history for injuries, as well as star summer 2023 signing Sandro Tonali missing almost the entire season due to a ban for gambling on football matches whilst at AC Milan.

Despite also having the demands of Champions League football on top of his small squad decimated by injuries throughout the season, Eddie Howe manages to take Newcastle United to finish 7th on 60 points, only six points off fifth and eight points off fourth. NUFC only denied a second consecutive season of European football when plucky Man U somehow pull off a giant killing act in the FA Cup final, defeating Man City.

2024/25

Despite no first eleven signings in the past three transfer windows and having been also forced to sell some of his best young talent to stay within PSR restrictions, this is the position on Thursday 6 March 2025.

Newcastle United sixth in the Premier League with 11 games remaining, two points off fifth place which will give Champions League football next season, United only four points off third in the table.

Newcastle United looking forward to a second cup final in the three seasons they have kicked off under Eddie Howe, this is after two NUFC cup finals in the previous 48 seasons, three in the previous 67 seasons.

EDDIE HOWE IS TO BLAME!!!

As I said at the start, the Newcastle United Head Coach is obviously the one to blame.

The one to blame, whereby for the lunatic fringe of the Newcastle United fanbase, it makes sense for Eddie Howe to be sacked!

Whilst even for many of the relatively sane members of the black and white army, the current situation is still seen as something of a disappointment.

That somehow Eddie Howe taking United to a second cup final in three seasons and having Newcastle United two points off fifth and four points off third, is some kind of relative failure???

With all the circumstances he has faced and all the other factors against him, including six clubs that have double or more the finances Newcastle United have to spend on transfer fees and wages (plus others such as Forest, West Ham, Brighton and Villa who have all spent far more on new signings these last couple of years than NUFC), what Eddie Howe has achieved in recent years AND what he is currently achieving this 2024/25 season, is nothing short of incredible.

If your brain is so addled that you are thinking the current Newcastle United standing is some kind of a negative, then for sure you have Eddie Howe to blame.

He has raised your expectations to such a ridiculous level, due to the miracles he has previously pulled off, that you can simply no longer comprehend reality, that you see Newcastle United doing far better than anybody could reasonably have expected, as instead, some kind of failure.

Not a single other manager could have achieved more than Eddie Howe has done these past 40 months at Newcastle United.

As  Newcastle United fans, we are very very lucky to have him and if you can’t appreciate that, then there really is no hope for you.