I'd resign if I wasn't still right for job - Howe

Newcastle United appointed Eddie Howe as head coach in November 2021

Head coach Eddie Howe says he would step aside if he did not think he was still the right man to lead Newcastle United.

Howe was crestfallen afterwards and said he was "not doing my job well enough at the moment" after his side slipped to 12th place in the Premier League table.

However two days later, Howe - who ended the club's seven-decade wait for a major domestic trophy 11 months ago - said there was "no doubt in my mind" he was the right man for the job.

"That's why I'm sitting here," he said on the eve of Tuesday's game at Tottenham Hotspur.

"If there was doubt, I wouldn't be - because the club is the most important thing. I've never put myself before the club.

"If I didn't think I was the correct man to take the team forward, and I couldn't give the players what they need, then I would step aside and let someone else do it."

He has had a transformational impact since his appointment in 2021, beating Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final last year and taking Newcastle into the Champions League twice.

The Newcastle head coach acknowledged he was going through one of the toughest periods of his reign but is drawing on the experiences of previous difficult periods to turn things round.

"Those experiences I have been through countless times before stand me in good stead for this moment," he added.

"The collective spirit is what we're after. We're after the collective fight from all the players and if you have that resolve within the group, you can do amazing things again, so it can turn very quickly.

"The momentum is against us at the moment. We have to swing it back and then the world can look a very different place within a couple of games."