Eddie Howe meets Yasir Al-Rumayyan – Explains where Newcastle United are at ahead of transfer window(s) | OneFootball

Yasir Al-Rumayyan was there in person at St James’ Park, watching on as Eddie Howe and his Newcastle United players qualified for the Champions League.

A defeat to Everton on the final day but over nine months of performances and results meant that Newcastle United were the fifth best team in the Premier League.

Exactly ten weeks earlier, Yasir Al-Rumayyan was inside Wembley to see Eddie Howe and his NUFC team win the League Cup.

The Newcastle United Chairman seeing at first hand the remarkable achievements, minor miracles, of the Head Coach.

This made all the more remarkable, as Eddie Howe has achieved all of this without been able to bring in a single new first team contender these past three transfer windows, plus forced to sell two of his most promising young players to Premier League rivals last summer.

Having done the hard PSR yards of the last three windows, Eddie Howe now on the transfer window offensive, which kicks off next Sunday. Two transfer windows this summer, 1 June until 7pm on 10 June, then 16 June until 7pm on 1 September.

After overseeing the conclusion of United’s progress into the Champions League on Sunday, Eddie Howe had this to say before heading into a summer recruitment conversation with Newcastle United Chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan and other senior members of the Saudi Arabia PIF majority ownership, along with Jamie Reuben representing the Reuben family minority NUFC ownership:

“As far as I’m aware, we do not have any PSR issues heading into this deadline.

“Now, I have to put a caveat in there, because I’m not seeing the figures, I’m only relaying what I’m getting told. But I think we are in a lot healthier position and a lot stronger position than we were at this time last year.

“We are looking to reverse what we did last summer.

“This time, we are in a strong position ourselves where we’ll be looking to make additions to the squad.

“I will have a discussion with the chairman and representatives from PIF today, and I’m looking forward to that.

“We will be trying to lay some foundations for what lies ahead in the summer.

“In terms of timings and everything that follows that, I don’t know, but the planning and all the things that go on behind the scenes have been there for a number of weeks now.

“We have been working hard to try to set things up for what we need to do.

“I think whenever I speak to the chairman, he is very focused on success.

“He is focused on achieving and winning, and he always leaves me in doubt that that’s what he wants, I’m working towards that.”

Newcastle 0 Everton 1 – Sunday 25 May 4pm

(Stats via BBC Sport)

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Everton:

Alcaraz 65

Possession was Newcastle 66% Everton 34%

Total shots were Newcastle 17 Everton 14

Shots on target were Newcastle 6 Everton 6

Corners were Newcastle 12 Everton 3

Touches in the box Newcastle 28 Everton 13

Newcastle team v Everton:

Pope, Botman (Trippier 63), Schar, Burn, Livramento, Gordon (Willock 46), Tonali, Bruno, Barnes (Osula 88), Isak, Murphy (Wilson 70)

Unused Subs:

Dubravka, Lascelles, Longstaff, Krafth, Miley

(BBC Sport comments from ‘neutrals’ – Interesting on Newcastle United after Champions League qualification – Read HERE)