Matthias Jaissle is in pole place to exchange Eddie Howe as Newcastle supervisor – simply three weeks out from the brand new Premier League season.
Howe is leaving his function as Magpies head coach after 5 years in cost, with the 48-year-old English coach eager to take a break from soccer. Newcastle misplaced 4-1 to Bristol Metropolis in a pre-season recreation on Wednesday.
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Howe leaves with loads of credit score within the financial institution, having guided Newcastle to their first main trophy in 70 years with victory within the 2025 Carabao Cup. He additionally guided the North-East facet to the last-16 of the Champions League final season.
But, as first damaged in The Athletic, Howe seems set to get replaced by little-known German coach Jaissle, who must hit the bottom operating with simply 24 days earlier than their Premier League opener towards Liverpool at St James’ Park.
This is every thing that you must find out about Matthias Jaissle.
Who’s Matthias Jaissle?
The 38-year-old German coach is a two-time Asian Champions League winner with Saudi Professional League facet Al-Ahli – a membership majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF), similar to Newcastle.
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Jaissle has coached Al-Ahli – who boast gamers comparable to Ivan Toney and Edouard Mendy – since 2023 and likewise received the Saudi Tremendous Cup in 2025.
Previous to that, he coached Purple Bull Salzburg for 2 seasons, profitable consecutive Austrian Bundesliga titles and the Austrian Cup after succeeding ex-Leeds boss Jesse Marsch. He additionally led Salzburg to the Champions League knockout section.
Jaissle obtained the job at Salzburg simply 4 months after guiding Liefering to second place within the second tier of Austrian soccer. That being mentioned, he was beforehand supervisor of Purple Bull Salzburg’s Beneath-18 academy workforce.
Jaissle, 38, has coached Al Ahli since 2023 (Getty)
Jaissle had a modest enjoying profession, that includes for Hoffenheim as a centre-back for seven years however making solely 68 league appearances after an ACL tear in 2009 triggered his retirement at 26. He additionally earned one cap for Germany’s Beneath-21 facet
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The German began his profession within the youth groups at VfB Stuttgart, the place he was coached by Thomas Tuchel, with whom he has an in depth friendship. Many consider this relationship was key in Toney being known as as much as England’s World Cup squad.
He has a training philosophy of high-intensity, attacking soccer and, given he began out within the Purple Bull ecosystem, sees ex-Man United supervisor Ralf Rangnick as a supply of inspiration.
“I need stress on the opponent as quickly as attainable,” he mentioned in an interview in January. “And once we win the ball, I wish to go as shortly as attainable in direction of the opponent’s objective.
“I am very vertical in that method.”
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Why have Newcastle appointed him?
The clear hyperlink is that PIF personal each Newcastle and Al Ahli.
Nevertheless, Jaissle has constructed a powerful repute as one of many world’s prime younger coaches, having received trophies and achieved success wherever he has gone. His time at RB Salzburg was significantly spectacular, earlier than he ventured to Saudi Arabia and have become the first-ever coach to win back-to-back Asian Champions League titles.
Nevertheless, it’s fairly the shift from Newcastle’s final three coaches, who’ve all been English: Howe, Graeme Jones (interim) and Steve Bruce.
Actually, it’s the first time in Newcastle’s historical past that they’ve appointed a German supervisor – and it is simply their third non-British/Irish coach.
Newcastle are subsequent in motion on Saturday 8 August in a pleasant towards Valencia, earlier than their closing warm-up video games of the season towards Everton, Bayer Leverkusen and Strasbourg.
Jaissle beforehand led Purple Bull Salzburg to consecutive Austrian Bundesliga titles (Getty)