Hello and welcome to the two Robbie's podcast, your destination printup discussion and analysis of the Premier League.

I'm Robbie Musto. He's Robbwell and this is another one of our interview series.

This time we sit down with Newcast United manager Eddie Howe, who talks about his early

thoughts of this season campaign and how his team are going to fare in the Premier League

and also the Champions League this season. Here's our conversation.

Okay, Eddie's, thanks so much for joining us. We're a couple of months into the season

right now. I know the summer was a little challenging, a little crazy. How do you summarize the first

couple of months of the season? Yeah, I mean, a tough couple of months for us. I think we had

a tough start to the season in terms of fixtures.

You know, some big, big games. I actually think overall our performances have been pretty strong in those games. We just haven't been at our free-flowing attacking best. And that's probably

the reason why we haven't picked up more points. But last few games, I think we've been showing good

signs of hopefully returning to our very best form. Eddie, can you talk to us about some of those new signings?

Nick Volta and Maulich Chow in particular, I think,'s gone under the radar. And what you're

hoping Joanne Wiese will bring to the team once he's fit? Yeah, I think our new signings have done

pretty well.

I've been delighted with Nick.

Very, very tough for him.

He was really thrown in at the deep end, very little training time with us and straight into

match days with no training in between either because we had such an intense period of fixtures.

But he's got to grasp with everything very quickly and scored some big

goals for us. So I'm very pleased with him. And Malik, as you say, recently into the team and

seems like he's been in the team for a lot longer than that. He's settled in really well. He's

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