Jose Mourinho targeting Eddie Howe's Newcastle job after meeting with Magpies chairman

Mourinho wants a 5th spell managing successful England aft his erstwhile stints astatine Chelsea (twice), Manchester United and Tottenham, and has his oculus connected developments astatine the Magpies

Jose Mourinho has identified Newcastle arsenic the cleanable nine for his Premier League comeback if Eddie Howe leaves St James' Park.

Mourinho wants a 5th spell managing successful England aft his erstwhile stints astatine Chelsea (twice), Manchester United and Tottenham, and has his oculus connected developments astatine the Magpies arsenic helium grows much and much unhappy astatine Turkish nine Fenerbache.

The Guardian study that the 61-year-old has reached retired to intermediaries and asked to beryllium kept up to day with the latest goings connected down the scenes connected Tyneside, wherever Howe has conscionable reached 3 years successful complaint but is not guaranteed semipermanent security.

Newcastle had gone 5 Premier League games without a triumph anterior to past Saturday's 1-0 triumph implicit Arsenal and are presently 11th successful the table, a agelong mode disconnected returning to the Champions League aft Howe led them into the radical stages past season.

Howe is not nether immoderate contiguous unit implicit his job, but mislaid 2 cardinal allies astatine the nine with the departures of directors Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi past summer.

Mourinho met with Newcastle president Yasir al-Rumayyan astatine the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix successful March, purely successful a societal capacity, but The Guardian study claims that the transportation has been maintained.

The Portuguese made a immense effort to charm British journalists erstwhile they were successful Istanbul for Fenerbahce's Europa League necktie with Manchester United past month, and has often criticised the Turkish league during his clip there.

Mourinho went adjacent further successful an extended rant against the Turkish shot authorities aft past week's 3-2 triumph implicit Trabzonspor, erstwhile helium accused the referee of being a 'child' and posted a bid of videos connected societal media criticising him.

Speaking aft the match, helium said: "In the end, I'm moving successful Turkey. It's not my country. I attraction due to the fact that it's my occupation and I attraction due to the fact that it's my club. But I deliberation you Turkish, you should attraction astir it! You Turkish, you should speak, not me. You should denounce. You should accidental what is going on, twelvemonth aft year.

"You should bash it, not me. Because I volition beryllium the 1 nether attack, the 1 the strategy volition criticise. The strategy volition effort to punish me, the strategy volition effort to adjacent my mouth.

“Nobody overseas wants to ticker the Turkish league. Who wants to ticker this Turkish league abroad? They person the Premier League, they person the French league, they person the German league, they person the Portuguese league, they person the Dutch league. Why should they spot this? … It’s excessively grey, it’s excessively dark, smells bad. But that’s my job, and I volition springiness everything to my job, to my club.”

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