2026-04-21 11:05:40
Alan Shearer expects Eddie Howe to leave Newcastle at the end of the season.
The Magpies are stuck in the bottom half of the Premier League table following the 2-1 home defeat to Bournemouth at the weekend and the club legend believes that the manager will pay the price for the club’s disappointing campaign.
Shearer said of the Bournemouth match on The Rest is Football podcast: “Did you watch it? I was going to say I was lucky enough, but I sat and watched it and the players were terrible.
“As tough as it is for Eddie, I don’t know what is going to happen with him. I listened to his interview afterwards and I watched him on the touchline and I just think is he going to want to go again? Is he going to get the chance to go again?
“There are so many moving parts with it for him. If all things are equal then, yes, I would like him to [stay]. But does he feel as if he is going to have the chance? Does he want to do it again? Are Newcastle going to have to sell?
“If he has money to spend and he doesn’t have to sell then, yeah. But I looked at the players and if that was what they call fighting for their manager, because he is under huge pressure whether you like it or not, they were terrible. They chucked him under the bus, the players. The performance was c*** from every single one of them.”
Shearer admits that he doesn’t know if Howe – who led the Magpies to their first domestic trophy for 70 years by winning the Carabao Cup last season – will have the “fight” to continue as manager.
He said: “It is a tough situation, a tough summer for Newcastle coming up. They have got some big decisions to make. As I am sat here, I don’t see Eddie in charge of Newcastle next season, unfortunately.
“I look at his interview after the game and I am not sure the fight is there. It is a very different club now to the one that he would want to go forward. He doesn’t look in a good position.”
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