‘Really high potential’…Eddie Howe says £28m Newcastle player can get better and better

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With Newcastle United battling in the Premier League, Champions League and Carabao Cup, there is a pressure to perform in the immediate term.

After PIF’s spending and the media attention a takeover like Newcastle’s attracted, there is little getting away from the fact that Eddie Howe needs to keep competing at the highest level.

Still, the club aren’t all about the present.

Indeed, they have signed younger players in order to safeguard their future and those plans look to be continuing.

Part of their summer spending saw the club bring in young Lewis Hall and the 19-year-old has been thrust into the first-team due to an injury crisis.

Now, Howe has spoken about the player.

Lewis Hall: Eddie Howe makes prediction about Newcastle star

Speaking ahead of the game with Chelsea for which Hall is ineligible due to the terms of his loan arrangement before a £28m permanent move this summer, Howe was full of praise for the teenager.

“His commitment to his training and all the work he’s done behind-the-scenes has been really good,” he said to the club’s official X account.

“He’s a talented young player for sure. He has a beautiful left foot and he’s got a high level of technical ability.

“There is a real high potential with him. I think there is a few of his areas of his game that need smoothing out and improving but that would be no different to any other young player. We really do believe in him.”

Lewis Hall: The early signs are promising

Judging Hall on games in which the team was decimated by injuries against Borussia Dortmund and Bournemouth seems harsh.

Such were the number of absences, they hardly offer an accurate reflection on Newcastle’s first-team.

Hall has shown some promising signs. Hailed for his performance in the Carabao Cup win over Manchester United by teammate Sean Longstaff – a game in which he scored a brilliant goal – there is a real hope he will develop into a first-team star.

With Howe having yielded vast improvements out of players on the coaching pitch, Hall is in safe hands to realise that potential.