Eddie Howe has warned of the danger of Newcastle United going ‘stale’ after admitting a lack of player turnover was a ‘slight concern’.
CEO Darren Eales was the first to recognise that Newcastle had ‘not done a very good job’ at trading in the last decade – a period which stretches back to the Ashley era – and the Magpies narrowly escaped a PSR breach following the 11th-hour sales of Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh last June. Various senior figures at the club have repeatedly stressed that no one wants to be in that position again.
That is why Newcastle are wary of making a decision in January that would have a knock-on effect on future windows and, in Howe’s words, make it ‘very difficult to do what we need to do’ in the summer. However, Howe stressed there needs to be a ‘certain element of trading in and out to keep the group dynamic new’ moving forward as sometimes the same squad can ‘produce a staleness and a negative product’.
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