Man Utd legend aims brutal dig at Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe

Manchester United fable Paul Scholes has aimed a brutal excavation astatine Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe implicit his evident nonaccomplishment of ‘winning prizes’.

Howe, regarded arsenic 1 of the champion progressive English managers successful football, has been successful complaint of Newcastle for 3 years and has shined successful his relation astatine St James’ Park.

The 46-year-old took the Magpies occupation successful November 2021 – with the squad sat wrong the Premier League relegation portion – and helped them decorativeness up successful 11th.

In the pursuing 2022-23 season, his archetypal afloat campaign, Howe impressively led Newcastle to a fourth-placed decorativeness to suffice for the Champions League and they were besides runners-up successful the Carabao Cup to Erik 10 Hag’s side.

Although they had somewhat of a dip past term, finishing seventh, Howe’s broadside were rocked by a fig of cardinal injuries, and they look acceptable to situation for the apical 4 again this season.

Scholes, though, is not convinced by Howe, who guided AFC Bournemouth from the bottommost of League Two – the fourth-tier of English shot – each the mode up to the Premier League, which saw him crowned EFL Manager of the Decade successful 2015.

Quizzed astir who should go the adjacent imperishable England boss, Scholes told Sky Bet’s The Overlap: ‘It’s that important a occupation that it has to beryllium an experienced manager.

‘Eddie Howe comes into that, I’m definite helium does. But again, Eddie Howe has not truly been that palmy erstwhile it comes to winning prizes.’

Howe is reported to beryllium connected England’s managerial wishlist – but helium has nary tendency to permission Newcastle – and is believed to beryllium highly blessed connected Tyneside.

He is precise overmuch considered a fable astatine erstwhile nine Bournemouth, having helped them unafraid a spot successful the Premier League for the archetypal clip successful the club’s history.

Howe’s Cherries were promoted from League Two successful 2010, went up from League One successful 2013 and past clinched the Championship rubric successful 2015.

His clip astatine the Vitality Stadium was divided into 2 stints, the archetypal from 2008 to 2011 and the 2nd from 2012 to 2020.

He concisely managed Burnley betwixt those 2 spells, deciding to instrumentality backmost to the southbound seashore aft the decease of his parent and wanting to beryllium person to family.

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