Eddie Howe has insists that the Newcastle United will need two strong starting XI ahead of next season.
Eddie Howe has admitted Newcastle will need two XIs of equal quality ahead of European football next season.
The Magpies secured a Europa League campaign at worst with Thursday night’s 4-1 Premier League victory over Brighton, and will play in the Champions League if they win one of their two remaining games of the current campaign, which continues with struggling Leicester’s trip to St James’ Park on Monday.
Asked what that would mean for the summer transfer window, Howe, who has been allowed to spend in excess of £250million to date, replied: “It’s a good question. We need to figure that out.
“If you have a strong squad, rotation will be important. Rotation is going to be important, utilising the whole squad is going to be important.
“We haven’t felt the necessity to necessarily do that on a consistent basis because we’ve been in one competition – of course, we had the cup run. We have rotated to a degree, but maybe not in the numbers that we might need to next year.
“If you’re going to do that, then the squad needs to be strong enough, so if you put out two XIs, they’re of equal strength.”
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