Eddie Howe's mood after Newcastle United's five-goal defeats at Man City and Spurs was no different to the day he took the Magpies to ninth place in the Premier League after beating Leicester City.
And for the record, Howe never really changed his public-facing body language when the club sat bottom of the table after 14 matches and historians wrote the club off stating no team had ever recovered from a start as bad as that. But when talking about his philosophy Howe said: "You don’t see what goes on behind the scenes. "I was always very calm – that’s my personality.
"If there’s a problem, then I’ll try to go away and fix it and work to find solutions, not really panicking or reacting adversely."
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For all the talk of A-list bosses from Serie A and La Liga, it is arguably Howe's coolness that has guided Newcastle through one of the biggest tests of their Premier League history books.
Howe said: “I’m very much a thinker, so I was very calm and I always believed. I always believed in the players – and that was regardless of the transfer window – I always believed that we could stay in the division. I said that many times and I don’t say it if I don’t believe it. I believe you can do special things on the training ground with players, you can improve players to a level that they don’t think they’re capable of.
“I still feel we have a long way to go in that respect, but the training ground work is what I love and that’s what we’ll really be focusing on for pre-season.”
When asked about the fans belief in Howe's project, he added: “The biggest compliment I can pay the supporters is that they stuck with us through that difficult period where we weren’t winning and the expectation was we were running out of chances to win and then our Premier League survival was almost slipping away.
“But the unity was there and that definitely helped us when we sparked our form upwards. Then the crowd took off and they have been pivotal in our success.”
