Newcastle United won’t be taking part in European soccer in the course of the 2024/25 marketing campaign – however winger Harvey Barnes hopes they will use that to their benefit.
The Magpies completed fourth within the Premier League in 2022/23 to return to the Champions League final time period, for the primary time since 2004.
However Eddie Howe’s facet have been drawn in a horror group with Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and eventual finalists Borussia Dortmund, ending backside to exit Europe earlier than Christmas, regardless of beating PSG of their opening house sport.
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Newcastle then completed seventh within the Premier League, which might have been sufficient for a spot within the Convention League, just for eighth-placed Manchester United to surprisingly beat Manchester Metropolis within the FA Cup Last.
That noticed the Purple Devils take a spot within the Europa League, that means sixth-placed Chelsea shuffled right down to the Convention League, denying Newcastle a spot in Europe.
Barnes admits he’d been hoping Manchester Metropolis received at Wembley: “Undoubtedly, as a result of regardless that we knew we weren’t going to be within the Champions League, the place we wished to be, some kind of European soccer would nonetheless have been nice for us,” he completely tells FourFourTwo.
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“However this season we simply have the Premier League to deal with now, hopefully with a completely match squad.”
The additional workload of a European marketing campaign noticed the membership hit by quite a lot of harm absentees final time period – together with Barnes, who was dominated out from September till February.
The Magpies additionally misplaced Sandro Tonali to a betting ban, however the Italian returns in late August and their absence from Europe might give Newcastle some benefits. They really feel that they will revisit the Champions League.
“We undoubtedly can,” Barnes stated. “Final season we had loads of totally different challenges and it was powerful, however we nonetheless did effectively ultimately – we solely missed out due to Manchester United successful the cup.
“Our goal is to be again up there. We’ve undoubtedly received the standard within the squad to do it.”
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