Eddie Howe dropping Newcastle United players is just daft | OneFootball

I am reading about Eddie Howe dropping some of the Newcastle United players who were instrumental in Wednesday’s victory.

The whole thing is just daft.

Eddie Howe isn’t dropping anybody.

Newcastle United players getting rotated is a different matter.

I wrote about this last week on The Mag but I am prompted to do so again.

In part, due to a desperate attention seeking headline claiming ‘Eddie Howe to drop huge favourite’, or words along those lines anyway.

I didn’t even bother to click in to read the made up nonsense, so I still don’t know which of the Newcastle United players they were using to try and hook you in for more made up stuff.

Eddie Howe now has a Newcastle United squad AND the weeks and months that lie ahead of us, see NUFC playing weekend – midweek – weekend – midweek, apart from when the players have a ‘break’ for the internationals, when so many of our top Newcastle United players will also be playing for their countries, rather than having a ‘break’.

The media are cynically still using Eddie Howe ‘dropping’ players in headlines, even though they know fine well it is nonsense.

Whilst for some NUFC fans, they still struggle to come to terms with the reality of a Newcastle United squad now existing, where we don’t have a first eleven and the rest.

It is simply a case of Eddie Howe picking what he considers the right eleven for any match, taking into consideration all factors, especially how his players are each feeling physically at any moment in time and the match schedule overall.

For example, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Malick Thiaw and Sven Botman start together against Arsenal on Sunday, as they did against Bradford four days earlier, but then Fabian Schar and Dan Burn to play there instead in the middle of defence against Union SG in the Champions League three days later.

It will be the same when hopefully Yoane Wissa is back fully fit again in the near future. I don’t see it as a case of will he or Nick Woltemade be first choice, more a case of them starting a very similar number of games each as the sole striker, plus maybe occasionally also starting in the same eleven at times.

Rather than looking for mischief and Eddie Howe ‘dropping’ Newcastle United players, we should all be celebrating the fact that finally we have the makings of a Newcastle United squad. With the ability to take on a packed schedule of games AND allowing Eddie Howe the chance to make a number of positive substitutions in any match.