Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe addressed his future amid speculation linking him with the England job.
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00:00Right, it's your Geordie Journos. Two of us. Two of us, yeah. Dom's at home. He's on holiday at the
00:05moment but myself, Jordan Crone and we're here at Adidas HQ, as I can show you, tell behind. We're
00:10in the bushes. We're in the bushes, we're in the bushes. The only certain part you can actually
00:14film here on this campus to give you a little bit of a sense of what the place is like. A vast
00:21place in the German countryside. Probably around half an hour drive, would you say, outside? From
00:27Nuremberg. Just amazing. We've been cycling around on Adidas bikes today. Sweating. We're
00:35sweating now. It's really, it's so warm and this is getting on late into Friday evening here.
00:41There's been beach volleyball, there's a full olympic-sized swimming pool just in sight here
00:45that I can see. There's outdoor seating areas, table tennis, table football,
00:51tech ball, beach volleyball, everything. Everything you'll ever want. Full-sized
00:57pitches, basketball. It is quite incredible. There's hares jumping around, there's a motorized
01:03fly more lawnmower about to come and attack us here on this grass. It is a beautiful,
01:08beautiful place and you can see why Newcastle United are so desperate to get here. We've had
01:12an opportunity to not only speak to Eddie Howe and three of the players, which we did today,
01:16and we'll come on to that before we just give you this context of where we are.
01:20There's this lawnmower. It's definitely coming towards us, isn't it? I think it is.
01:23Anyway, you'll soon see if it comes into sight. Yeah, so it was got to speak to Eddie Howe,
01:31Lloyd Kelly, Tino Riveramento, Lewis Hall, but Eddie Howe was the one who presented the most,
01:38I mean, Jordan, what the hell happened there? You might not get a sense of this
01:42from where you guys are now. You may have seen the interviews on BBC. You may have seen them on
01:47Sky. I'll just say that it was different. It was different in our press conference.
01:55It was, yeah. Do you want to give a bit of context as to what happened?
01:58I mean, that's it with Eddie Howe in the season every Friday. In his message, for me, Eddie Howe
02:04was always crystal clear. For me today, it was very mixed in parts in the response he gave on
02:10his future in light of the England speculation. I think he's a man that had a demeanour of being
02:16unsettled. I think the changes in the last couple of weeks have made him a bit uneasy. He is seeking
02:24clarity on, I would say, his, probably, responsibilities now because, in my mind,
02:30me and Eddie are two close allies who ultimately gave him the keys to everything and backed him
02:37for everything. To give him everything as what they could have his own as Eddie Howe was fully
02:43the man in total control. I do wonder if Eddie Howe feels that control has slipped away a little
02:48bit because of the appointments they've made in the last few weeks now. Paul Mitchell, as a sporting
02:53director, does that change Eddie Howe's role in terms of transfers? Conversations still going on
02:59with that, as he mentioned. Then the big one as well, I think, is the performance director,
03:04James Ouse, who's came in. Bunce. Bunce, sorry. I'm glad you're here, you know. I'm glad you're here.
03:11It's been a long day. It's been a long day. I got it right before. You did, you did. We'll just, we'll just
03:17caveat this a little bit. We've just recorded five minutes and started this video and the
03:22mic wasn't on. Wouldn't be the Geordie Journos without that. I'm glad I noticed fairly early doors.
03:27As just reminders, I've got, I forgot to do something at the start. Right, okay. I forgot to do the T's
03:32and C's. It's still my head in this thing, I mean. T's and C's, or if, as you know where it is, finance,
03:37pension advice, investment advice, jump in downstairs. You'll see it all there in the description.
03:43I've mentioned Dom's not here, he's on his holidays. He'll be around next week for Hull and for Japan,
03:49for you and him going over there. Amazing opportunity. But today it's just us two over here
03:55in Nuremberg. And yeah, the context of how things played out. I think it's important to make sure
04:02that everybody knows why it was different and how it was different. Yeah. So, you know, it's,
04:09we arrived here today and the plan was for players to come and see us after the open
04:14training session, which I'm sure they'll probably, Jordan might put little bits and bobs on
04:18while we're doing this. We'll do, yeah.
04:23Then it was meant to be the players coming to see us, then Eddie Howe. We pushed to get Eddie Howe
04:28first. Eddie Howe came first because of this England situation. Yeah, if we sat in front of
04:32Lloyd Kelly, Lewis Hull, Tean Livermendo, three players that England, well not England Nationals,
04:37but want to be, the question if we hadn't spoken to Eddie Howe first would have been about the
04:40manager and his future, which there was a little bit of that, but it was really important that
04:45Eddie Howe came out first and that's what he did and he sat in the room half an hour.
04:49But the context of how it was meant to play out, it was meant to be locals, yourself,
04:55Gearing Kelly, Matthew Raisbeck of BBC Radio Newcastle, and then it was meant to be the
05:01Nationals, but we all went in with Eddie Howe together because we all had the same idea. We
05:05want to know what the hell's going on with him. And then he was then tasked, so it was the written
05:11press, which isn't recorded on video, it is taped by everybody, you can see a full transcript of
05:17that on Newcastle World, make your own mind up of what you think, but it was very different
05:21to the interviews that he then progressively, he moved down the line out of the door and around
05:26the corner, did BBC Radio Newcastle, which you've seen the videos probably, then he moved on to the
05:31club interview that you guys have probably seen also, and then he moved on to Sky. And there was
05:36a definite difference in the tone and what he said in the interviews as he progressed. Those
05:42video interviews where he was speaking straight to camera, and you've probably seen, were very
05:46different to the manner in which he presented to the 10 written press there in that room, who all
05:54for around two to three hours after the event, all were debating how to tackle this because it was
06:01so un-Eddie Howe like, it was, was it a politicised move, did he say it deliberately, or was it
06:09unintentional, sounds like it was quite intentional from the conversations we've had, it sounds like
06:14it was something that it would be something he would do. Eddie Howe was a very intelligent man,
06:19and I think there's a reason why you realistically give two very different interviews to a writ,
06:24not very different, but let's be honest, the wording was different for him.
06:29They were slightly altered, but it made a big difference. It did make a massive difference.
06:34And you're going to have to trust us on this, if you do trust us on the interviews.
06:38There'll be a lot of people who have read the stuff, maybe from us, national journalists,
06:42and will think that there's an agenda or a spin. We're two journalists who are Newcastle fans,
06:46and look, we're giving you our opinions on what we heard and what we've seen and what we watched.
06:52And as you mentioned there, it was very different, very, very different. I said when we're speaking
06:58among everybody, everybody who was there, Simon Bird from the Mirror, Luke Edwards from the
07:03Telegraph, Mark Douglas from the Eye, Craig Hope from the Daily Mail, there was everybody, all the
07:09big hitters from the area were in and around that press conference today. And we were all chirping
07:15in and saying what we thought of it. And my major takeaway from was, I said, taking everything out
07:19the equation, listening to him and watching him, the way that he was and the answers that he gave,
07:24how he flitted from, I'm really happy here, but I'm not. I'm not interested really in England,
07:32but I'm not sure about this either. It was very strange. And my feeling after coming out of that,
07:37and I can only say this, I don't know where it came from, whether it's the fan in me or whether
07:41it was the journalist, I wasn't sure. I felt so uncomfortable with what I'd watched. He didn't
07:47look like a happy man and he didn't look like a happy manager. Yeah, he didn't. He didn't. I mean,
07:52as I say, I sit with him every week in this season. And for me, the contrast between today
07:59and what we usually see was there was a big difference. And I do, as I touched upon at the
08:04start before I really got into it, I think that the changes have really moved him. And I think
08:09I see he's seeking clarity on his responsibilities now. From what I understand, Eddie Howe in terms
08:16of transfers had a lot of say on transfers. Now you're brought in a sporting director who
08:21literally has made such a stellar name because of the recruitment that he's made.
08:26So it would make sense. I mean, Fundy Castle to have him in, you have to tap into his recruitment
08:32knowledge. Well, they are going to. Darren Eales said that. Yeah. Darren Eales said in the
08:36interview that he did this week. Well, let's go on that because we said... I don't think he looked
08:40happy when that was mentioned, did he? No. So we said after that Darren Eales interview, it almost
08:44felt like, and this might not have been intentional about Darren Eales, but it almost felt like
08:48we've got Paul Mitchell, who has got such a good recruiting background. And we've got a great
08:52manager in Eddie Howe who works with the players on the grass. And for me, that felt like a split
08:56where it was, it did feel, it felt to me that they want Paul Mitchell to have a big say over
09:01our transfers and Eddie Howe to be more of the head coach type role. Initially, what I thought
09:06Eddie Howe was going to be, I thought the head coach role was invented because you would have
09:12a director of football who would help with transfers. Of course, you have a manager at
09:15Chips in with transfers, but ultimately he would be giving the players, because Eddie Howe is a top
09:19coach. And in terms of coaches, Eddie Howe is one of the best in terms of just in terms of his
09:24training ground work, his long hours, hard work, intensity, everything. If I haven't worked with
09:30players, he's tracked right over improving players at Newcastle. He's improved pretty much every
09:33player he's worked with at Newcastle. So I see the logic in that. But for Eddie Howe, because he's had,
09:38we think, control over the majority of transfers over the last two and a half years,
09:42it almost feels like, and this goes to the new performance director as well, where
09:47they've had two people there who are going to have a big say on first team matters. And Eddie Howe
09:50is a man that has controlled first team matters for the last two and a half years. And in his mind,
09:57and it's right, he's done a very, very good job. So I think in his head, he's like, well,
10:02why do you want to change things when I've built success? I've took this club from 19th
10:06Champions. Why would you want to? He said he's two and a half years. It was very obvious when it was
10:13mentioned that he said it was basically saying, I've had success for the last two and a half years.
10:19Why would you change it? He didn't say that explicitly, but paraphrasing, he could tell
10:23that was what he was getting at when he was talking. I don't know. I felt the reason I
10:28probably felt, I don't know, I felt uncomfortable. I felt it was very uncharacteristic. I thought
10:34he was very rehearsed when he walked in, first walked in, he had something to say and he was
10:40quite, he was like, right, right, right. I'm going to say it. And then he got it out and said what
10:44he wanted to say. But then he was challenged on what he said. And what he kind of said was, look,
10:50England isn't a conversation for me. It's nothing to do with me. I'm happy here. As long as I'm
10:57happy. He basically was like, I'm happy here. He's pretty much saying, I want to stay as long
11:02as they keep us happy. Yeah. Yeah. And which was so, I don't understand why he didn't think that'd
11:07be challenged. Maybe he knew it would be challenged. Like I say, was it a politicized move?
11:10Because it was so challengeable. It was like, wait there. So, so are you happy? And he said,
11:16yes, I like me job. And then it was what made, what, what would make you happy if you're unhappy?
11:23And it was like, well, the last two and a half years is, is the success is there. It was a very
11:27strange kind of thing. And he actually, he, he didn't say that he wanted the England job. I think
11:33it was, I don't think Eddie Howell will be the next England manager. No, but I think so either.
11:40But I think today he used the England talk as an opportunity to, I'm trying to think of the term
11:47here, but he's used the, he's used the England talk essentially as, can you say a leverage?
11:52I thought he set his boundaries. Yeah. That's a much better. You know, obviously there's been
11:57a lot of movement, like Amanda was a huge ally of all of the coaches and Eddie Howell, a lot of the
12:04players. She was a very close contact to a lot of them. Direct line to everyone at the club, wasn't
12:09she? Yeah. And I think they've lost that little bit of safety in that regard. And there's been,
12:16there's been certain people brought in who are actively because of the roles, not as individuals,
12:22or there's no, it's not personal because of the roles that have been brought in,
12:26performance director to directly challenge, is your training causing injuries? How do we manage
12:32these injuries? Are you, should you be, it's a direct challenge to Eddie Howell, even though
12:36you might not see it that way. It is. He never had it before. And it is a challenge now. And also
12:42he was heavily involved in the recruitment with Amanda and others because of the way things were
12:47set up. The first thing that came in the first transfer window was Eddie, Amanda, Steve Nixon,
12:53Mia Dad, doing everything, everything because there was no one else to help them. And they
12:58built the trust. They got the deals done. And from then on in, there was a, there was a bond.
13:03Now that bond's been broken and then we've got somebody coming in to take that role.
13:07But it does feel like, and I think Darren Eales, the sporting director was very much changed
13:11because Dan Ashworth, I think that's one thing Dan Ashworth the next when he came to Newcastle,
13:14I think he came to Newcastle expecting to have control over transfers and Dan Ashworth didn't
13:17have the say that he wanted. I think the Ashworth thing sounds so confused when you think about it.
13:22It almost sounds like he was in doing a job and this isn't a criticism of him personal or any of
13:26the thoughts on it. It's almost like he was in doing a job, but had his hands tied behind his
13:30back. And we'd heard hints of that, but listening to the way things are happening now and playing
13:35out behind the scenes, much of which we can say on here, some of which we can't, it sounds like
13:40almost Ashworth had at least one hand tied behind his back. Eddie Howe said when Ashworth had left,
13:46when he's personally gone, he said the best thing I can say about Dan is he changed nothing.
13:51Which tells you about the transfer situation. But now there's a sporting director who,
13:56like Paul Mitchell is one of the most coveted sporting directors on the planet in Europe.
14:01So he's going to have to have some assurances to come to Newcastle. And I imagine recruitment's
14:05going to be one of them and that obviously directly affects Eddie Howe. And then in his
14:09first appointment, he's appointing a performance director who, as you mentioned there, will
14:13literally oversee training. And I think, look, it's probably a natural for Eddie Howe to get
14:18his back up. Do you want someone scrutinising your training? Especially when you feel like you
14:22believe in your training method so much and you've got so much success that you can show for the last
14:26couple of years, it probably does move you a little bit. And I do think the time will tell
14:31the way sort of the trio play out in terms of Mitchell, Howe and about, I can't say his name.
14:40Bunce?
14:41Yes, Bunce.
14:43It's not in your head, is it?
14:44No, it's not. Because I've said it wrong and I was going to say it wrong again. But yeah.
14:48Anyway.
14:48The power dynamic, it's a power struggle.
14:50That's what it is.
14:50And it looks like it played out in public. I don't think anybody expected it to play out in public
14:54the way that it did today. There were shocked faces. That's all I'll say.
14:58Yeah, there was.
14:58There were shocked faces around the place. So believe what you will. And if you only want
15:02to take what Eddie has said from the horse's mouth in front of you on a camera as gospel,
15:07take that as gospel. That's fine. You make your own opinions up. But listen to our context. We
15:13were both there. There was a lot of shocked people. I think people were taken aback by the
15:18manner in which he conducted himself. And it wasn't negative. It wasn't. It wasn't. He wasn't
15:24out of order or anything. It was just it was just a change in tone and a change in message that Eddie
15:30Howe's never had before. Is that him growing some balls where some people, I know some of you
15:34criticize him and say he hasn't. I've never said that. But some of you guys out there do say,
15:38I want him to do this. I want him to do that. I want him to show a bit.
15:40Well, he definitely showed a bit today because for me, he came out and said,
15:45I want to be in my opinion. This is my opinion paraphrasing. I think he came out today and said,
15:51these are my boundaries. I want power over what I had before. I love this job and I want to stay
15:57here. But I want the same job as I had when I left for the summer. I don't want it all to have
16:01changed. And I think that's his biggest fear, that the dynamics have changed and he's having
16:06to do slightly different things and not as much in certain areas. And I thought the EELS thing,
16:11I said to you straight away, I rang you didn't I straight away after the EELS thing. And I said,
16:15he's just went, you're good on the pitch, Eddie, stick to that. In a stupid paraphrasing,
16:20jokey way, I said that. But realistically, it looks like there's been a bit of that going on.
16:25And I wonder if Eddie Howe feels that and thinks, well, no, I'm more than that. And I can do this,
16:28I can do that. And that's fine. But I think he's laid his parameters out and he said, I want power.
16:34And I think he fears that he isn't going to have the same power that he had before.
16:38And he's laid down the market to say, I want this job with the leverage of the England interest
16:44being there. I don't think you'll end up as an excellent manager, but that doesn't mean he won't,
16:49he might. He's got that leverage now and he's in a position of real strength to turn around and say,
16:54look, I could leave. And maybe it's a power play. Maybe it's a power play to say, look,
16:58I want more power. I don't know if this'll work. I don't think that'll necessarily work.
17:03And he didn't speak to me like a person who was absolutely certain of his future,
17:09not in a way that he's under any pressure because I don't believe that he is. And we've seen those
17:13words this week from, we got a chance to speak to Paul Mitchell off the record, which we won't
17:17discuss any of what was said on here. But we've spoken to people and we've spoken to Darren Eales
17:22this week and we get a sense that Eddie Howe's the man that they want. They believe in Eddie Howe.
17:29It's just whether does Eddie Howe buy into the new model and the way things are going to work now?
17:33That's the biggest thing. And he's laid down that mark and said, I want power. And I just don't
17:37think he thinks he's going to get the same power. And why he's dangled that carrot of saying,
17:42you keep me happy or we might not be together forever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's,
17:49it's hard. It's hard. It's hard to add anything to that really. But I think, I think, I mean,
17:53I think we've covered Eddie Howe stuff. We've gave our context of being there.
17:56And I think we're in the sort of the words of Eddie Howe, I think there's going to be
18:00conversations over the next few weeks as to how they're sort of eyeing out.
18:07Because it does feel like a new model. It does feel like there's a new model in place,
18:11especially when you bring in a performance director. I think it can be positive. It's
18:14unsettling in some ways. I understand it from Eddie Howe's point of view, because in his head,
18:18he has done a phenomenal job for this club. And he has. He has. And what he's done over the last
18:24two and a half seasons has worked. But I actually see a lot of value in when you employ someone like
18:30Paul Mitchell and tapping into his recruitment knowledge, you're getting a performance director
18:35who just adds a different view. That's another thing with Eddie Howe actually, because Eddie
18:40Howe for his career has always had the same backroom team, wherever he's went. The only
18:44addition he's had to his backroom team is Graeme Jones and he inherited him. It's always been a
18:48close-knit group. He was involved with Paul Mitchell. Whereas the performance director has
18:51came in and it's almost like an added layer to his backroom team that he had no, I'm presuming
18:58didn't have much of a say over, to be honest. Well, I don't think he did. Speaking of people,
19:01conversations among other press members and stuff today, you hear it doesn't sound like
19:05Eddie Howe was particularly informed with regards to what happened with the appointment of Paul
19:11Mitchell. And look, that's within the ownership group's remit. They can do what they want with
19:16this football club. And on the face of it, we said it on here, it's a progressive appointment.
19:21It's a levelling up of what they had in that position before. They've just had to maybe do a
19:25little bit of a realignment of the powers and that's just maybe not what Eddie Howe likes the
19:30sound of. I think this is the summer where PIF have taken on a much more
19:35hands approach and that's because they've acquired 85% of the football club now.
19:39So I think in that sense, from what I understand, it was a Saudi's decision to bring in
19:44Paul Mitchell. So that shows you that they're having a say on things and Eddie Howe might not
19:50like that, but it's about now the football club trying to find a happy place for everyone,
19:56but that rarely happens. But let's be positive in some ways, right? So there is a possibility
20:01that this gets ironed out. I mean, we could go to Tokyo next week and Eddie Howe says,
20:05yeah, I've had these conversations. Honestly, I'm so happy. They might sign two players and
20:08the relationship's built and it's what the players that Eddie Howe wants. And this dynamic can change
20:14very quickly. But at the moment, there's a lot of unknowns and a lot of uncertainty. And I think
20:19there's just a tenseness about things. I think the football club's going in the right direction.
20:26I'm not saying that on a bigger picture. It isn't. There's just a little bit of uncertainty
20:30and tenseness around things that are going on at the moment. And look, that might play out and be
20:34fine. I'm sure it probably will actually. I think it might. And I don't think Eddie Howe's on the
20:40verge of leaving, but I just think he laid his cards down to everybody there and said, look,
20:45this isn't unconditional. I love this club and I want to be here, but it's,
20:49it's not unconditional. Things can change. So that's kind of where I think we are.
20:54Very good day at Adidas. Eddie Howe bombshell, which we're expecting. We're expecting a
21:00fairly uneventful. We should tell them about the Adidas HQ, the vault, whenever I go to the vault.
21:05Yeah. We've recorded all this before and then we had to delete it. Yeah. We should do some
21:08self-indulgence now, shouldn't we? About the experience in the vault with all the
21:13memorabilia from years and years ago. I mean, what's the, I mean, the earliest 1950s boots.
21:20Yeah. We didn't even mention that in the first time. Yeah. So they have all these football
21:23boots, like from the 1954, uh, world cup final, uh, Germany and these Hungarian boots that were
21:30like, I don't know how you play football in those things. And it was funny that,
21:33cause I showed you the, the boots from, it was, uh, Germany, Hungary. Yeah. And it showed you
21:38the boots that the Hungary team are wearing. And they were literally like, and the difference
21:42because the Germans was like a proper boot by that point. Whereas the, the Hungary was a proper
21:47old school boots of one that you'd probably wear in a building site these days. It's like a pair
21:51of builders boots, steel toe cap type things. Um, match balls from every world cup from 1974,
21:5970, 1970, wasn't it? 1970. All the way through to the present day. Incredible. We had to wear
22:04these silly gloves, uh, which we've got to keep. I'll put, I'll put some clips over this video.
22:08Yeah, we'll do that. And we've got to hold these balls. It was like having history in your hands,
22:12but the best bits for me, we've got to see Nicasia United strips. We mentioned all of that.
22:16Nicasia United strips so much. I've never seen the light of day. Yeah. Prototypes. Yeah. Yeah.
22:23So, and then we seen Bruno GuimarĂŁes boots that won the Olympics gold medal. So he'd signed them
22:31and those still had the dirt on them from, from that Olympics. Um, what else do we have? Oh,
22:36some of the best literally in our hands and these boots, it was amazing. This vault, it was just
22:41full of like any Adidas kit and retro like Gabriel Salassie's running trainers and just, just
22:48everything. Uh, anything that you think of, uh, we'll have Messi's boots. Well, talk about the
22:53Jeff Hurst. Jeff Hurst, a bronzed Jeff Hurst, the actual left boot of, uh, the 1966 World Cup
23:00final Jeff Hurst. Um, and they bronzed it to give it to him and obviously it's been gifted back
23:04because people just gift them back. Um, and we've got to hold that. It was the, it was, it was
23:09history in our hands. Uh, Bobby Muaz boots from the same game. Uh, they had them, they weren't
23:14bronze, but they were, it was just fully intact. It was incredible. Um, Johnny Wilkinson's 2003
23:21Predators that he actually played in the final against Australia and the World Cup, uh, Rugby
23:27World Cup final. Just loads of just amazing history in our hands. It was, it was incredible.
23:31Yeah, it was, it was, um, yeah, I mean, I'm thinking David Beckham, David Beckham's boots.
23:39I was in the element and you were the same. Yeah. It was a proper football memorabilia, but on
23:44a level I've never experienced before and probably will never experience before. No.
23:47Um, there was some incredible items and, and then, yeah, we've got to see,
23:52well, most of it really. The castle shirts on me were the, were the favourites seeing them
23:56the proper replica. Oh, the proper shirts. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the Rude Hullet. Was it Rude Hullet?
24:04I think it was the FA Cup final. The one that you... No, it wasn't that one.
24:08It was the black and white. It was a cup final losing black and white shirt. Yeah. It was,
24:14but it was like all the patterns on the white stripe. It was, yeah, it was, uh, it was a
24:19amazing, amazing experience. So we've had that, we had Eddie Howe, which was almost like,
24:26just, it blew my mind. And it's subtleties and nuances and it wasn't, he didn't come out with
24:32the bombshell that maybe we've probably painted it out as in some ways. It was in his standards.
24:37By Eddie Howe's standards it was, it was him throwing a grenade, which nobody expected. Um,
24:43we nearly got a cameo. We nearly had a cameo from this lawnmower. We nearly got a cameo from Paul
24:48Mitchell. He'd probably not be very happy with that actually. It sounded like he was talking
24:51transfers. I really hope we didn't, I hope we didn't interrupt anything there. Um, but he stopped
24:56talking as he walked past and then started again. So apologies. If you do ever say this, I'm really,
25:01we're really sorry for the Geordie Journals, um, potentially spoiling anything. We'll have to
25:05listen back and see if there's a name that he said in the background. We'll get that out. I don't
25:10want to know. I'd rather be surprised. We're on their home for the day. We are. We are. Let's
25:16respect them. Let's not take their nick. Let's respect them. Right. If you respect what we do,
25:20you know what to do. Click, uh, like, comment, share, subscribe, the bell, the thanks. If you
25:26like what we do, it helps us come to places like this. We'll have to dip into our pockets at times
25:30to do this kind of thing. Even though we do get employed to do this job, it doesn't pay.
25:34It doesn't always pay. No, we're fanatics. We like doing this. We do like getting about. So
25:39we're in a privileged position. And what were you trying to do today is give you guys a sense of what
25:43we just saw and experienced. And it isn't, might not always be what you want to hear. It might not
25:48always be what you think happened, but it's our take. And we respect your opinions. Let
25:54me know what you think. Like comment, share, subscribe. Anything else to add? Yeah. I was
25:57just going to add, I can't remember if I said this on the recording that we did before I didn't have
26:01the audio, but let's say lots of fans who have read the, uh, what Eddie Howard said today,
26:05either by us two or national journalists, whatever, but, and you might not like what
26:11you've read, but we're just as two journalists, as two fans, we're giving you what we thought.
26:16And that comes from a good place. That's an important point. Um, you know, you know, with
26:21us two and Don's the same, you scratch the surface, but bleep black and white. We never,
26:26this never comes from a point of agenda. Uh, we all respect and love what Eddie Howard's
26:31done for this football club and the owners as well. So it's never comes from a point of agenda.
26:35This is actually just us trying to relay to you what we've seen and heard and give our take on
26:40what we've seen and heard, because that was a, that wasn't a comfortable Eddie how he was out
26:44of his comfort zone, doing what he did and saying what he said. Look, he's still, he's still
26:48confident with it, but it was just different. And that has to be recognized. This isn't it. We're
26:55not, we're not at a point in this whole journey of everything playing sailing, even though some
27:01people want to feel that on social media, they're like, you're talking rubbish. That's not what's
27:06happening. Look, believe what you want. And if you want to do the, the happy clapping thing,
27:11I don't mind. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to Jordan. It doesn't matter. Any of the
27:15national lads who you're shouting, screaming, if you do, it doesn't matter to any of them.
27:19They're literally just doing their job and explaining what they're saying and what they're
27:21hearing. And you can argue agendas with anybody, but I don't think there is, but there's definitely
27:27no agendas here and we're just reporting how it is and what we think about is going on as a plane
27:34flies over. I think that's our time. You can see an amazing Adidas, the Trefoil behind you there.
27:39That was bad. She's never done this video. She's done it by herself. I get accused of that waffling
27:46too much. So anyway, I better shut my mouth, right? Like, comment, share, subscribe for your Jordie
27:52content. We'll also upload this to Newcastle world. So you'll get a chance to see it on there.
27:58Do read my content. I've done an analysis piece, um, sort of developing what I've said there and
28:04how I think about things. You've put the full transcript of any, I think it's really important
28:08that people read that as well. Cause you can make your own conclusions, make your own conclusions.
28:11We've, we've given you hours, go away, research and bring your own conclusions back to the
28:15conversation. We'll be happily chat with you, but we're going to go off, go and get some work
28:19finished and hopefully have a day look around Nuremberg tomorrow. Not on this amazing Adidas
28:22campus, but elsewhere. Yep. A bit of sightseeing we'll do, won't we? We will. There's a lot,
28:29there's, I heard there's a lot to see in Nuremberg. Aye, there is. Right. Well, not quite a deal.
28:36Good night. Good morning. Good afternoon. Whenever you're listening to this, I've said like,
28:40comment, share, subscribe. I'm waffling. You'll catch on Monday night as well on channel, where
28:45is he? He's not here. 276. Good job you're here. Right. Cause I never remember. It's one of the
28:50channels. As this lawnmower comes to attack my bag, we're going to have to go and kick it out.
28:54Right. Like, comment, share, subscribe. For all your Geordie Journals content,
28:58he was John Cronin. I'm Liam Kennedy. And I hope you enjoyed that. Even if you didn't enjoy the
29:02Eddie Howe content earlier on, I hope you enjoyed this video. Cheers guys.