Eddie Howe will be keeping a close eye on events at the World Cup. The Newcastle United head coach has even confirmed the club will use the tournament in Qatar as a 'recruitment tool'. This is the stage where players really do come alive, after all. Just ask Philippe Albert.
The Belgian scored superb goals against both the Netherlands and Germany at the 1994 World Cup in front of the watching Kevin Keegan, who was working as a pundit for ITV that summer, and the Magpies boss soon came calling.
"Without the World Cup, I would never have gone to Newcastle," Albert told ChronicleLive. "I would have played somewhere else, but it wouldn't have been the same.
