Newcastle United's good start to the season may act as 'ammunition' for Eddie Howe to demand more from the club's owners in the January window if the Magpies remain in the hunt for top-four football. With the Toon Army sitting fourth in the Premier League table and having only lost once this season, attention is turning toward the winter window and how the club's plans may be altered if come January 1st they have kept their form up.
Speaking on The Everything is Black and White Podcast, Chronicle Live's Newcastle United Editor Aaron Stokes believes that while the club will already have a list of players they are targeting, additional incomings could be looked at if European qualification is within reach.
"If Newcastle go into that break and then into January sitting in the top six, it's brilliant ammunition for the owners to go 'look there are funds available.' Howe and Ashworth will already have their targets lined up and we saw last January that they had to spend because they wanted to stay in the league, this time it isn't that necessary but you look at the bench and it's still not where you'd probably want it to be, and you'd want probably one or two signings of real quality just to make that group a little bit stronger.
