Matthew Middleton

🧵 BIG READ ON WHY HOWE HAD TO GO.... Now that the dust has finally settled on Howe leaving and Jaissle arriving, it was 100% the correct decision on both accounts. Howe - possibly through no fault of his own - had lost the dressing room and the ability to motivate not only the players....but himself. He was completely burnt out. You could see it last season....he didn't have the answers to any of the questions being asked of his side. The smiles were no more. The tactical nous had disappeared. The drive, energy and determination to bully the opposition had evaporated. The ability to inspire/motivate the squad was long gone. No more intense high-pressing, darks arts or blowing teams away 5-0. We were easy pickings. Instead of this summer acting as a soft reset, all of the above continued. He's a good manager when given decent players but he's not a miracle worker. He can improve players but he can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. He wasn't given the tools to succeed any further than he already had. In fact, the tools he did have were actually taken away from him. I'm not sure where it all went wrong but somewhere along the road, he lost what made him special. Hopefully he'll find it again after a rest and recharge....but the similarities to the end of his time at Bournemouth are uncanny. He got lots of things right in his time here but there were lots he could have done differently too. He made fundamental mistakes such as.... ▪️Not being flexible with formations ▪️Constantly picking his favourites rather than trying something different ▪️ Ditching the intense high-press overnight for no apparent reason ▪️ Asking for contract extensions for players like Wilson who offered nothing. ▪️ Negative tactics like sitting on a one-goal lead for 30 mins and ending up losing games because of this. All of the above couldn't continue. And now they won't. Jaissle is EXACTLY what the fans WANTED ....but more importantly, he's EXACTLY what these players NEEDED. Young, hungry, fresh ideas, highly motivated, vibrant personality, tactical flexibility, aggressive touchline antics....all the things we've lacked for at least the past 18 months, maybe longer. A week ago we didn't know who he was. Now we know he's exactly what we've been missing. Time waits for no man in life....especially not in Football and if Howe had still been in charge this season, I genuinely believe we may have been relegated. Howe gave us memories that will last a lifetime....now it's Jaissle's job to give us many more. Thanks Eddie and good luck Matthias. HOWAY THE LADS! 💪 ⚫⚪ #NUFC

One thing's for sure going off Bruno's Instagram stories over the past few days....he's certainly not stressed, worried or sulking. In fact, he doesn't look like he has a care in the world. In contrast....at this stage last year, Isak wouldn't show his face in public. #NUFC 🇧🇷

🧵 🐌 Long (extremely pissed off) read about the SPEED at which the Club operates: The snail's pace at which our negotiations/transfers take place is DIABOLICAL for a supposedly professional set-up in the PL and this approach has reached dangerous levels of normalisation. Signings probably will arrive eventually....but this overly prolonged process for EVERY player we sign (or in many cases, don't actually sign!) can't be tolerated for much longer. It's literally crippling the Club every transfer window. Why can other teams (both elite and lesser) scout, sign and unveil players in a much shorter time period than Newcastle United seemingly can at present? On this basis, if every transfer we try to conclude takes 4-5 weeks or more, there'll NEVER be enough time in ANY window to sign the actual amount of players that we need. We'd simply run out of time, meaning we'd then be left short for the season or panic buy as a last resort....see Wissa and Woltemade last summer. It's a truly shambolic way to run a PL Football Club in 2026 and we won't get away with it for much longer without some serious consequences. The Owners and hierarchy at Newcastle United need to be held accountable for this and this issue has to be highlighted until it's amended. Being diligent and playing hardball over fees/wages is one thing....dragging deals out unnecessarily and leaving yourself open to hijacks or running out of time completely like we do, is very much another thing entirely. It can't continue. #NUFC

🧵 🤬 A VERY LONG ANGRY READ: Regardless of your stance on Bruno or Howe....this situation has been caused purely by our Owners and for various reasons. We hardly bought anyone of note who would improve the first team from 2023-2025. Then when we did, we bought players unsuited to our style. Howe should have been sacked by Xmas last year but he wasn't. They backed him. We finished 12th. We've now lost Isak, Gordon, Tonali and probably Bruno. 5 years into the takeover they still haven't released any concrete information on the new training ground, let alone the new stadium. We've gone through 3 Directors of Football and 2 CEOs....Amanda and Mehrdad were booted out despite being the driving force behind the project. The ambition continues to be talked about but that's all it is, talk. Our Owners are complicit in this stagnation of #NUFC and now we find ourselves back in 2021 needing a complete rebuild in order to fight relegation. It's an absolute disgrace and they've got off far too lightly up to now. Time to hold @PIF_en and @jamiereuben to account. Some answers. Some ambition. Some updates. Some signings. Some progression. Do something....anything....anything but this state we find ourselves in at present. This is unacceptable and it needs addressing before we become a Championship club. This Club will 100% be relegated if is continues to be operated with this level of ineptitude and negligence.