For a man who never rests in his search for improvements, a statue probably does not adapt to Eddie Howe.
Being still is not your thing, you see. It is due to that impulse, that daily desire and per hour to improve those under their care, that Newcastle United now no longer has trophies.
From this, a tan image of Howe will come, without a doubt, even if he does not long for such celebration. But for a conservative character, Howe is a nature force coach. He is the best of his generation, and you don't need to qualify that with 'English'. Six of the players who appeared here, three headlines, three substitutes, inherited from a team that was going to descent, and one of them was Joelinton, the man of the game in the center of the countryside. He was a striker who was going to go back when Howe arrived.
There is temptation to look from the outside and believe that Newcastle's rise has been due to financial power.
He has helped, of course. The accelerator factor, however, the most powerful reason of all, is Howe. This is a victory for exceptional management more than anything else.
He took the goal that put them on their way. Howe and her coaches began working on set-skilled routines, only for this game, two weeks ago. Then, when Kieran Trippier hung a corner at the penalty spot and Dan Burn, 6 -inch feet, jumped over Alexis Mac Allister, one foot was his inferior, it was not a good fortune.
Newcastle Carabao Cup title is a victory for exceptional management more than anything else
Local hero Dan Burn opened the scoring on Sunday with his seventh goal for Newcastle
The defender Burn went from a shot in the corner to give Newcastle the advantage just before part time
“We have worked in them tirelessly for fifteen days, not always successfully, if I'm sincere,” Howe said. 'We said that a piece of set could win the game. Little things can make a difference.
A big difference, results. There was also a deliberate ploy to play differently during a 2-0 defeat in Liverpool in the Premier League last month. 70 years without a domestic trophy is the holder, but not underestimate how long the chief coach has been planning for this day.
In the end, it was a 90 -minute thesis on how to overcome a better team, that the respective league positions would suggest that they are Liverpool. It is not that they looked at him against the heroes of Howe, who played as if they had knocked down a Carabao energy juice slab in advance.
“I thought we were magnificent,” Howe said. 'We weren't lucky.'
However, Newcastle is lucky to have it. Yes, they have recruited well since the acquisition of 2021, but Howe's fingerprints are in all those tickets.
Not a player entered without his signature and his base, supported by former co -owner Amanda Staveley and Mehrad Ghodoussi. Newcastle had money in those first windows, but the sense of identifying those players belonged to Howe.
From Trippier to Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak, they are stars that have shot Newcastle to a completely new orbit. However, the one who rivals them with the best signature in the recent history of the club is to burn, to a modest £ 13 million from Brighton. Kevin Keegan had Brian Kilcline in 1992, and Burn is Howe's equivalent. He knew that the group needed a leader and, in the three years since Burn has led the way.
He is, in many ways, Howe's incarnation in the field. They are honest, workers and genuine. Good guys. Burn's joy during the celebrations after the game was only improved in volume by the one reserved for his manager. Supporters know how lucky they are. They have idolized Keegan and Bobby Robson and others, but Howe could overcome the lot, if not.
Alexander Isak scored the second goal of the Newcastle game to put the 2-0 in the 52nd minute
When winning the Caabao Cup, Newcastle finished its 70 -year wait for an important national trophy
Howe received the strongest joy of all when he applauded Newcastle fans in Wembley after supervising a famous result
Captain Bruno Guimaraes was reduced to full -time tears while recording his name in history
Copao 2025 Cup final in sixty seconds
Toon's long wait has finally finished
70. This is the first great success of Newcastle National Trophy since won the FA Cup by winning Manchester City 3-1 at Old Wembley Stadium 70 years ago.
56. It is also Newcastle's first important trophy for 56 years, since he won the old Cup Inter-Cities Fires in 1969, surpassing Ujpesti Dozsa of Hungary 6-2 in aggregate.
Eddie's attack for domestic bosses
Eddie Howe is the first English manager to collect an important trophy in England for 17 years, since Harry Redknapp won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008.
Nationalities of managers to gain great national trophies in England since 2008:
50 years of Wembley Ay in the end
Newcastle finished a series of nine successive losses at the Wembley Stadium …
- May 5, 1974, lost 3-0 V Liverpool, end of the FA Cup
- February 28, 1976, lost 2-1 v Man City, end of the League Cup
- August 11, 1997, Lost 4-0 V Man Utd, Community Shield
- May 16, 1998, lost 2-0 v arsenal, end of the FA Cup
- May 22, 1999, lost 2-0 v man utd, FA of the Copa FA
- April 9, 2000, lost 2-0 V Chelsea, FA cup semifinal
- May 9, 2018, lost 1-0 V Tottenham, Premier League
- February 2, 2019, lost 1-0 V Tottenham, Premier League
- February 26, 2023, lost 2-0 V UTD, end of the League Cup
- March 16, 2025, won 2-1 V Liverpool, end of the League Cup
P.S. This was Newcastle's first victory over Liverpool in 18 meetings, from a 2-0 victory in the Premier League in 2015.
“It was not a victory for me or players as such,” said Howe. 'It was a victory for the club, the city. All those who receive loyalty and support for the club and have seen some really disappointing days during the last decades.
'The pain of certain defeats. Today is a really sweet moment and I encourage everyone to enjoy it. We knew what was at stake today, for all people here, all people in Newcastle, and we only wanted to make them proud. The power of football is incredible.
Not from Harry Redknapp and the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008, an English coach raised a national trophy. Howe should really be England's manager, if the FA had gone after the best man for work last summer.
There was a small window when it could have been obtaining, in the midst of the turbulence of change outside the field in the club. But he stayed for pending matters, for loyalty to his players and followers.
He knew that he had worked so hard to lay the foundations for this day that he would not allow them to crumble due to hierarchical problems that were not their fault. He decided to influence and control what he could, and that was the costume, not the boardroom.
He is the most powerful man in the club now, as he should always have been. He is undoubtedly the most popular man in the city. Once he joked, in his first months in the club, that he could not find a house in which he and his wife could agree. Well, you can build a new one in the city of Moor after this, since all the privileges of the city surely wait.
One of them, over time, will be a statue. And this is safe: the man who represents will use a tracksuit.