England candidate Howe says he will stay at Newcastle if it is “right for me and the football club”

Eddie Howe wants to enactment astatine Newcastle United connected nan information it is “right for maine and nan shot club” amid speculation he is nan favourite to switch Gareth Southgate arsenic England boss.

Howe hinted he was taking a wait-and-see attack astatine Newcastle pinch a caller sporting head Paul Mitchell and caller capacity head James Bunce joining nan nine since nan extremity of past season.

Asked if he would beryllium successful complaint astatine nan commencement of adjacent term, Howe told reporters connected nan club’s pre-season travel to Germany: “As agelong arsenic I’m happy successful nan position that I’m in, arsenic agelong arsenic I consciousness supported by nan shot nine and free to activity successful nan measurement that I want to work, yes. 

“For me, that’s ever been my cardinal driver – my happiness and my expertise to do my job.

“I perfectly want to enactment but it has to beryllium correct for maine and nan shot club. There’s perfectly nary constituent successful maine saying I’m happy staying astatine Newcastle if nan move isn’t right. I’m surely not serving Newcastle good if I do that.

“As a caller squad coming together [off nan pitch] we person to group our boundaries. We person to spot if we tin activity together successful a really fluid, move measurement to nan use of Newcastle.”

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There has been a adjacent magnitude of upheaval astatine St James’ Park complete nan past mates of months pinch nan nine having to waste young talents Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh to raise costs to comply pinch Profit and Sustainability Regulations, while number owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi – who were instrumental successful luring Howe to Tyneside – person moved on.

The erstwhile Bournemouth leader added: “There has been a batch of alteration astatine nan shot nine this summer. It has been a very difficult summertime for everyone connected pinch nan club. With alteration comes ever a caller feeling.

“You tin constituent to PSR, Amanda and Mehrdad leaving, a alteration successful sporting head which, of course, influences me. These are each large changes.

“I don’t deliberation I person nan correct to situation those aliases nan want to situation those decisions. The nine has to take its guidance and that expertise is their right.

“I’ve sewage nary rumor pinch that. But evidently I person to beryllium happy successful my work. I person to consciousness that this is thing that tin use maine and nan shot nine for it to work. I dream you understand what I’m trying to say.

“It’s not astir maine arsenic nan manager. I’m somewhat irrelevant. It’s astir making judge Newcastle United is arsenic beardown arsenic it tin beryllium for nan adjacent play and beyond. We’ve each sewage to travel together and make judge we are nan unit that we want to be.”

He added: “I person been really happy for two-and-a-half years. I person loved each 2nd of nan relationships that I’ve had and nan measurement I’ve been capable to work. I deliberation that has brought success.

“We’re successful nan flux of change, it’s conscionable happened. I can’t opportunity pinch a definitive reply wherever that will lead. I dream it leads to everything that I’ve conscionable said. That could easy beryllium nan case, but it needs to beryllium that measurement for Newcastle, not truthful overmuch for me. The nine is ever nan astir important thing.”

Howe is reportedly connected nan shortlist to win Southgate on pinch nan likes of Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino.

It had been reported nan 46-year-old held a semipermanent ambition to negociate nan Three Lions but he said that wasn’t nan case.

“I deliberation England is simply a very typical occupation for someone,” he said. “I americium very patriotic and I’m not ashamed to opportunity that. I emotion my country. I want my state to do well.

“I was gutted for Gareth and nan lads that they did not triumph nan Euros. But I don’t person a burning sensation wrong maine that I consciousness I person to do that astatine immoderate stage. I’ve said before, if it happens astatine immoderate shape successful nan future, past it’s to beryllium for me. If not, past I’m very, very happy successful nan existent domiciled that I’m doing, nan day-to-day management.”