Howe's got too much cache with the owners at the minute. He turned a relegation facing team into a CL chasing team without buying Robinho or Jo. He's increased the values of plenty of players from where they were under Benitez or Bruce (Joelinton, Longstaff, Murphy) and brought through young players like Anderson and Miley.
For all we've 'struggled' recently, that can mostly be attributed to unpredictable impact injuries, rather than any particular failing on his part. Maybe he's a bit inexperienced, certainly his lack of rotation/subs in the past few games haven't made a lot of sense to me. Surely we could have played Ritchie against Everton instead of Gordon? Hall instead of Trippier?
But we're still within 7pts of 4th spot, still (currently) in the Champions League, the League Cup and the FA Cup. Much is being made of our recent 'struggles' but I think that's just horseshit. We've won 3 out of the last 6 in the PL including Woolwich, Chelsea and Man Utd, it's just the away form that's proving too much for the depleted squad. But 9pts from Ars, Bou, Che, Eve, MNU and Tot isn't too bad.
If we get dumped out of everything and end up midtable with an unhappy squad then, yeah, sure, the owners might turn on him. If that doesn't improve by this time next season, then yeah his position will probably be in doubt. I just don't think that's likely.
