Eddie Howe deadline day press conference summary

Shields Gazette

Dominic Scurr reflects on Newcastle United's press conference with Eddie Howe on deadline day.

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00:00I'm here at the Newcastle United Media Center where Newcastle head coach Eddie

00:04Howe has been speaking on deadline day. Newcastle have a game against Tottenham

00:09Hotspur on Sunday but that definitely took, well you'd almost forget because

00:14transfers were the big talking point. Eddie Howe asked numerous questions about

00:19Newcastle's transfer activity, the summer as a whole, ran for about 45 minutes in

00:24total. The live stream may have cut off a little bit earlier, there was a section

00:27at the end for added written questions but yeah it was a long one, it was a

00:31tough one for Eddie Howe but he probably stood up to most the questions

00:37reasonably well. He did say Newcastle have struggled, it's been a difficult

00:41window. Is he expecting any business in the final hours of it? Possibly not but

00:47he said it's hopeful, the club are still going to be active right until the

00:51deadline but obviously a big blow this week. In terms of mark A, the club have

00:55been really active in terms of trying to agree a deal with Crystal Palace for

01:01the England defender but so far that's not materialised and barring a miraculous

01:07U-turn from Palace that won't materialise. So Eddie Howe was asked

01:12about mark A, he wouldn't bite on that but then an interesting

01:16question was have Newcastle almost put too much energy into trying to sign mark

01:22A and neglected maybe signing other players, what Eddie Howe described as the

01:26right players and Eddie Howe insisted that was not the case. The club have been

01:30spinning plates if you want to use an old phrase and been looking at all

01:35fronts, all areas to strengthen. He admitted that the team isn't

01:40necessarily stronger at this stage than it was when it started the

01:45transfer window and PSR a big reason for that with losing Elliot Anderson and

01:49Yancuba Minte. So yeah it's been a difficult window, will we see any

01:54incomings? It doesn't look likely, Eddie Howe wouldn't completely rule it out and

01:58one question asked Eddie Howe, it's now two transfer windows now without a major

02:02signing since the club played in the Champions League so is that progress and

02:06Eddie Howe couldn't really answer, he understood the question but couldn't

02:10really answer because it doesn't look good when you put it like that. So yeah

02:16followed that up with a question about PSR and whether because Eddie Howe kept

02:21going back to PSR and saying look that's almost shackled Newcastle in recent

02:26transfer windows and PSR it it's not a new thing but points deductions and the

02:31sort of teeth to PSR have become a bit more pertinent in 2024 really with

02:36Everton and Nottingham Forest getting that points deduction. So I said Newcastle

02:40basically paying the consequences for taking risks regarding PSR, Eddie Howe

02:44refuted that, he said no I don't think so PSR again is something that's only

02:49really come into play in the past year or so for Newcastle United. So yeah

02:56difficult press conference for Eddie Howe, he stood up to most things. Well did we

03:01get the answers we were looking for? Probably not but he was certainly asked

03:07a lot of questions about transfers and the sort of dynamic regarding

03:13everything that's happened this summer which has been a frustrating one and

03:18Eddie Howe's still satisfied with the squad he has though did admit there was

03:23probably a couple areas ideally you would have looked to strengthen and

03:27would have liked to strengthen but he said the right players haven't been

03:31there which seems hard hard to believe really when you consider the teams in

03:35and around Newcastle have been doing business have been signing players the

03:39money was there to spend on mark a 70 million pounds of it the sort of latest

03:44reports latest offer for for the Crystal Palace defender so could that money have

03:50been used elsewhere according to Eddie Howe no so make of that what you will

03:55and it's been a frustrating one it's been a frustrating summer and it looks

03:58like it's gonna continue that way but if anything does happen be sure to follow

04:04the Shields Gazette, shieldsgazette.com where I'll be active all day until the

04:08deadline even after it because probably gonna see a couple of younger players

04:13couple of players leave so have to be have to stay busy but in terms of

04:18incomings it may be a little bit quiet but yeah stay tuned follow myself Dom

04:23Skur on Twitter for all the latest updates throughout the day and of course

04:27Shields Gazette online. Cheers.

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