Three bold predictions for Newcastle United in 2022

Newcastle United enter 2022 with fresh optimism after the takeover. But just how much can Eddie Howe’s side achieve this year?

It is time to make some bold predictions for the year ahead. The point here is to be ambitious and not conservative.

So let’s get to it. Here is a quite overly-positive look ahead to Newcastle United’s upcoming year…

Survival is the key aim for Newcastle and has been ever since Howe inherited the mess made by Steve Bruce.

But what if it could be done in style, with games to spare and many points and places between Newcastle and the bottom three?

That would really kickstart the new era, underlining Howe’s credentials and making Newcastle an even more attractive prospect to new arrivals.

Wilson told Alan Shearer back in August that his target for the season is 20 goals.

At Newcastle, he has gone at pretty much one in every two league games.

The main source of excitement in this new era is Newcastle look like a side who will try their utmost to be ambitious and win trophies again.

A successful FA Cup run would ignite the whole club and imagine if Newcastle lifted the FA Cup at Wembley in May.

A trophy is long overdue and for years under Mike Ashley, the domestic cups were ignored in favour of the pragmatic pursuit of survival.

That unambitious outlook should have changed with the introduction of new owners.