Louise Taylor on Friday, April 26 2024

Eddie Howe reveals £100m Bruno Guimarães release clause ends in June

Newcastle manager wants to build team around midfielderPSG and both Manchester clubs admire Brazil internationalEddie Howe has revealed that Bruno Guimarães’s £100m release clause expires in the final days of June and hopes that will save Newcastle from a summer of transfer speculation centred on th

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Guardian sport on Friday, April 26 2024

Premier League: 10 things to look out for in this weekend’s football

Liverpool await a dead-ball salvo, Luton have to keep their chins up and things could get spicy at City GroundDavid Moyes will surely have taken note of Liverpool’s struggle to defend set pieces against Everton. Jürgen Klopp, who must be delighted with a 12.30pm kick-off on Saturday, should prepare

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Ed Aarons at Selhurst Park on Wednesday, April 24 2024

Jean-Philippe Mateta doubles up as Crystal Palace ease past Newcastle

It’s a question most Crystal Palace supporters and perhaps Roy Hodgson must be wondering - what would this season have been like if Eberechi Eze and Michael Olise not spent so much of it on the treatment table?A third successive victory for Oliver Glasner’s side thanks to Jean-Philippe Mateta’s 10th

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Louise Taylor on Tuesday, April 23 2024

Alexander Isak repaying Eddie Howe’s faith as Newcastle target strong finish

Newcastle’s manager a long-term admirer of the Swede who is now back to full fitness to spearhead European qualificationAlexander Isak was back on the pitch at St James’ Park last week, posing languidly alongside a Formula E car as cameras whirred and a commercial film shoot began. Isak does languid

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Guardian Staff on Monday, April 22 2024

Premier League and FA Cup: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Manchester United snatch chaos from jaws of serenity, Nicolas Jackson misfires and Liverpool stay in huntJammy, jammy Man United. To be fair, they did find a new way to be hopeless. Instead of the usual mayhem, they were in total control for 70 minutes, barely letting Coventry have a shot. But then,

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Guardian sport on Monday, April 15 2024

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s football action

Adam Wharton shines on Merseyside, Mateo Kovacic displays City’s depth and Erik ten Hag gets tetchyJoachim Andersen was named Sky’s man of the match at Anfield and with good reason. But while the Danish centre-back won header after header and made clearance after clearance, and while the front three

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Oliver Connolly on Sunday, April 14 2024

Premier League weekend awards: Casemiro woes and Newcastle’s cutting edge

From Newcastle’s forward line to a comical series of own goals, we hand out honors (and dishonors) from the top-flight weekendArsenal were stunned by Aston Villa 2-0 at home to hand Manchester City the advantage in the title race. If you’re looking for a microcosm of Ollie Watkins’s season, look no

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Louise Taylor at St James’ Park on Saturday, April 13 2024

Postecoglou laments ‘self-inflicted’ Tottenham defeat at Newcastle

Alexander Isak scores twice in 4-0 home win‘I was concerned with every aspect of our game’Ange Postecoglou suffered his heaviest defeat since taking charge of Tottenham last summer and warned that it was unlikely to be the team’s last setback.“I was concerned by every aspect of our game, a lot of it

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Barry Glendenning on Saturday, April 13 2024

Newcastle 4-0 Tottenham: Premier League – as it happened

Micky van de Ven had a game to forget as Eddie Howe’s side ran amok in the face of surprisingly feeble resistance from their visitorsRead Louise Taylor’s match report from St James’ Park1 min: Tottenham get the ball rolling, their players a vision in – I’m going to say – mauve. Both sets opf players

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Alexander Isak double leads Newcastle in thrashing of toothless Tottenham

At least it was not quite as bad as last year for Tottenham. Almost exactly 12 months ago, Antonio Conte’s interim managerial successor, Cristian Stellini, presided over a 6-1 defeat here that served to confirm things were seriously awry in north London and set in motion a chain of events concluding

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Guardian sport on Friday, April 12 2024

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

Welcome returns at Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa juggle ambitions and Guimarães’s discipline under scrutinyShould Bruno Guimarães be booked against Tottenham at St James’ Park the Newcastle and Brazil midfielder faces a dilemma. Given that Guimarães is on nine yellow cards, a 10th would trigger an au

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Louise Taylor on Thursday, April 11 2024

‘Unsilence the crowd’: Newcastle shirts to enhance experience of deaf fans

Pioneering use of haptic technology to be implanted into shirtsFans will get fuller sensory match-day experience at Spurs gameDeaf Newcastle supporters will be able to experience a fuller sensory match-day experience at St James’ Park on Saturday thanks to the club’s pioneering use of haptic technol

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Peter Mason on Wednesday, April 10 2024

Joe Kinnear obituary

Tottenham defender and Ireland international who kept Wimbledon in the top division as manager in the 90sJoe Kinnear, who has died aged 77, had a lively and successful career in three footballing arenas – as a trophy-winning defender with Tottenham during the 1960s and 70s, as a 26-cap international

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Guardian sport on Monday, April 8 2024

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Kai Havertz inspires Arsenal again, Jarrad Branthwaite stands tall and Manchester City prioritise fresh legsIf emotion is carrying Liverpool towards a glorious farewell to Jürgen Klopp, then Old Trafford required cooler heads. Harvey Elliott’s point-rescuing contribution as substitute stood out beca

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Joe Kinnear, former Tottenham player and Wimbledon manager, dies aged 77

Kinnear managed Luton, Forest and Newcastle among othersWon FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup as a player with SpursJoe Kinnear, the former Tottenham Hotspur defender and Wimbledon manager, has died at the age of 77, his family has said.Dublin-born Kinnear, who won the FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup

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Jacob Steinberg at Craven Cottage on Saturday, April 6 2024

Bruno Guimarães punishes Fulham to keep Newcastle’s European hopes alive

Sometimes the sneaky wins are the ones to savour. Fulham made most of the running, created most of the chances and produced most of the best skill. As for Newcastle, they began the game in survival mode, could have been out of it after 30 minutes and appeared to be on the brink of collapse after see

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Louise Taylor on Friday, April 5 2024

Eddie Howe eager to keep Bruno Guimarães but offers no guarantees

Brazilian midfielder admired by PSG and Manchester City ‘My intention would be to keep Bruno for as long as we can’Eddie Howe is adamant he intends to keep Bruno Guimarães at Newcastle long term but acknowledges he would be “absolutely foolish” to offer any guarantees.The Brazil midfielder’s contrac

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Guardian sport on Friday, April 5 2024

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

Everton’s Sean Dyche badly needs a win while Liverpool and Manchester United renew their historic rivalryMichael Olise’s anticipated return from injury for Crystal Palace against Manchester City could not be more timely for Oliver Glasner’s struggling side. The France Under-21s attacker has been in

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Louise Taylor at St James' Park on Tuesday, April 2 2024

Newcastle frustrated as late Dominic Calvert-Lewin penalty rescues Everton

Will April prove the cruellest month for Everton? No one can be quite sure but even though it has not started exactly brilliantly for Sean Dyche’s team they at least managed to defy the doom-mongers by fighting back to salvage an unlikely point on a chilly Tyneside.Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first goal

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