Newcastle’s solid start can’t mask Eddie Howe’s uneasy truce with hierarchy

Eddie Howe lost key allies in the club’s boardroom over the summer and let it be known he was not that happy about it. Photograph: Alex Dodd/CameraSport/Getty Images

Eddie and Paul are at war. Eddie may leave for England. But hold on a minute, Paul is close to walking out. No, scrub that, seems like they’ve called a truce and it will be all smiles at Wolves on Sunday.

Events at Newcastle have been nothing if not confusing lately but the latest twist, a rapprochement between the manager, Eddie Howe, and the sporting director, Paul Mitchell, appears genuine. For the moment at least everyone is on their best behaviour and fathoming out the best way of signing Marc Guéhi from Crystal Palace in January.