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Dutch football icon Ruud Gullit believes that Eddie Howe deserves more time in the managerial hot seat at St. James\u2019 Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a season to forget for Newcastle United. Eddie Howe\u2019s fifth season in charge of the north east giants hasn\u2019t gone according to plan. The Mags were eliminated from the Champions League in the first knock-out round, taking a pasting from Barcelona in an aggregate loss of 8-3. <\/p>\n Domestically, the club\u2019s Premier League form has been abysmal, and it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see them finish below bitter rivals Sunderland \u2013 it\u2019s all gone wrong for the Geordies this season. <\/p>\n You can pinpoint Newcastle\u2019s shocking season back to the summer. Embroiled in a transfer saga with top striker Alexander Isak, who let\u2019s face it, they were never going to keep hold of and should have sold as soon as the window opened, seriously destabilised the club. <\/p>\n Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa were signed at huge sums to replace the Swedish international who eventually got his mega transfer to Liverpool, but it\u2019s fair to say neither signings could be seen as success stories. With Newcastle\u2019s PSR problems, they simply can\u2019t afford to make the kind of mistakes in the transfer window that saw them splurge Isak\u2019s \u00a3125 million fee on two flops that are currently sat on the bench. <\/p>\n Ruud Gullit, who had a difficult spell managing The Mags where he famously fell out with club legend Alan Shearer, knows how the pressure can mount in the northeast, but he was quick to jump to the defence of Eddie Howe and praised his tenure at the club despite an underwhelming season. <\/p>\n Speaking to MrRaffle.com, Gullit said: \u201cLook, I think he\u2019s done well. I think he also expected certain players to come in \u2014 they didn\u2019t, because of PSR. Going up the mountain is easy. Staying on the mountain is the most difficult part. The expectations are bigger. And in order to stay competitive, you need to bring in players who push the existing ones to give 100%. That didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Gullit also eluded to the fact that Newcastle will face another major exit this summer, with Bayern Munich reportedly close to landing Anthony Gordon in the summer. <\/p>\n \u201cNow there\u2019s a danger they lose Anthony Gordon in the summer because of it. You can\u2019t blame Howe for that, though. I think he\u2019s a great coach. He\u2019s done very good things at that club,\u201d Gullit said. <\/p>\n Whether or not Eddie Howe gets another season in charge remains to be seen. <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dutch football icon Ruud Gullit believes that Eddie Howe deserves more time in the managerial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Poor summer transfer window spelt trouble <\/h2>\n
Eddie has been hamstrung with PSR problems and deserves another season, says Gullit<\/h2>\n