Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe alongside part-owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe alongside part-owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe alongside part-owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

This is where Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Norwich City are tipped to finish in the Premier League – amid managerial changes

Eddie Howe takes charge of his first Newcastle United game on Saturday with Brentford the visitors to St James’s Park.

The 43-year-old put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half-year deal as head coach, where his first task is to keep the Magpies in the Premier League.

At present, the club is 19th in the table, without a win in their opening 11 matches and five points from safety.

Newcastle are hoping for a new manager bounce but so are other teams around them with Norwich City and Aston Villa also changing their managers during the two-week international.

Here’s where United and their top-flights are tipped to finish come May by data experts FiveThirtyEight – based on current form:

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