'You would never leave Newcastle to go there': Peter Crouch laughs off suggestion Eddie Howe would move to Premier League rival

The Premier League can be a ruthless league when it comes to job security for its club managers. We've already seen two sackings this season and we haven't even hit double figures for the number of games played.

While Newcastle United have taken a sensible approach with Eddie Howe, giving him time to right the ship when things haven't been going to plan, rather than getting all trigger-happy and sacking him to bring in someone else, only to not give them enough time to stamp their authority on things, creating a revolving door of managers.

Some clubs have dug that hole for themselves now and can't seem to get out of it. Getting a second season at Chelsea should be grounds to have a statue erected outside the ground, while Manchester United have had more managers than wins since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

And it's they who could be next to make a managerial change, as Ruben Armorim has massively failed to uplift the club since his arrival.

Ruben Amorim is next in line for the chop

Amorim is the bookies' favourite for the chop with Andoni Iraola and Oliver Glasner tipped to replace him, but Peter Crouch has heard another name, and speaking on his podcast, the lanky ex-England man has laughed off the claim that Eddie Howe would leave Newcastle for Old Trafford.

“Someone mentioned Eddie Howe to me, right, to go to (Manchester) United. But why would he leave Newcastle?

“To take a job that, since Alex Ferguson has left, like [David] Moyes, [Louis] Van Gaal, [Jose] Mourinho. These aren’t bad managers. Do you know what I mean? And their stock has certainly not gone up for them, in the Manchester United job. You would never leave Newcastle to go there.”

Oh how the mighty have fallen

The Manchester United job was probably the most coveted position in football when Sir Alex Ferguson retired, but it just looks like a poisoned chalice now.

If the likes of prime Jose Mourinho and Louis Van Gaal can't turn it around, you know that there's something deep in the club's core that's wrong.

Had I not grown up in the time when Man United won everything all the time, causing intense jealousy and hatred, I'd almost feel sorry for them, such is their huge fall from grace. But I did grow up in that era, and I do hate them, so inject this into my veins.