Eddie Howe | “The media hype with England is so big, to be out of that is where I want to be.”

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4.6 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

For the final Up Front of 2024, Simon has travelled to the north-east to meet the Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe.

In a wide ranging interview, Eddie talks about his aims at Newcastle, whether PSR is hindering its ability to compete for the biggest trophies, how much he considered the politics surrounding the club before taking on the role and his relationship with the hierarchy at St James’s Park.

He also discusses whether he would have liked to have been considered for the England job, his success at Bournemouth and why he chose not to become the manager of Celtic. Did he, as Simon has suggested in the past, bottle it?

He also reflects on the nature of football management in the modern era: why managers who fail aren’t necessarily bad at their job, whether you should stick doggedly to a footballing philosophy, whether it’s harder managing up or managing down and the pressures placed on footballers at the highest level.

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0:00.0	But I'm not trying to lead it somewhere. I'm trying to either unpick this narrative that's been regularly written about the world's richest club.
0:06.0	And what that means. That's something that's never been talked about internally.
0:09.0	The fact they talked to ten candidates of which some were English, are you one of them?
0:13.0	No.
0:14.0	Really uncomfortable in the summer when we were forced to make two sales of two really talented young players,
0:19.0	Elliot Antersson and Yucubimintet. The gang style will really for financial reasons.
0:22.6	And you think, why are we doing this? This just doesn't feel right.
0:25.3	You've obviously put the question in in one way.
0:27.8	I'd be...
0:28.5	It's what he said.
0:29.2	Well, yeah, you can twist, you can twist words to suit any narrative.
0:34.1	Do you think a nation state should own a football club? For the final up front of
0:38.7	24, we're bringing you something different. We've come to the North East to talk to one of the
0:43.0	Premier League's leading managers. A man, Newcastle United, hope can bring an end to their long
0:47.9	wait for a trophy. On today's episode, we're joined by a rare breed, a Premier League manager.
0:56.8	Beginning in the EFL, he oversaw Bournemouth's remarkable rise to the top flight.
1:00.8	Now he's leading a new era for Newcastle United as they aim to break the mould.
1:05.0	Some suggest he flies the flag for English coaches and as such is destined for the national job one day. Eddie Hell, welcome to
1:12.8	upfront. Thank you, great. Nice to see you, mate. You must be some kind of big cheese to drag my
1:16.6	lazy southern ass up to the freezing cold part of the north. Well, I don't know how that happened.
1:20.5	Well, it's great to host you. What we do in these shows, I think you've seen a few of them,
1:25.2	so you know the gist of them. It's really a discussion between us, but it's more about you, your career, where you come from,
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