Howe to go back to the basics

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- Ian Murtagh

EDDIE HOWE will plot Newcastle’s Premier League survival with the same basic tools he applied 13 years ago to keep former club Bournemouth in the Football League.

Toon director Amanda Staveley has already pledged to apportion a hefty slice of the Saudi-financed budget into upgrading training facilities, which are rated among the most basic and out-of-date in the top flight.

That’s expected to provide a state-of-the-art structure befitting the world’s richest football club.