The latest North East sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.
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00:00Newcastle United have announced the departure of Sporting Director Paul Mitchell from the club.
00:06Head coach Eddie Howe spoke after the club had qualified to the Champions League this season
00:10about what had been a difficult summer when Mitchell first arrived on Tyneside.
00:16I think if you said at the start of the season, especially the way we started the season, how the season would end,
00:22you'd struggle to find too many people believe that we were in a position to do that at that time.
00:27We had an inconsistent beginning, we had a disruptive summer, we haven't signed a major big signing in three transfer windows.
00:38They're all huge challenges. Lost players as well that we wouldn't have wanted to lose.
00:44So the players that we do have regrouped and just gave more and gave everything and that's why they deserve huge credit.
00:50It's very easy now to look back and see it through different eyes, but they're the challenges that we faced.
00:55A brilliant group to manage and to work with every day. Very professional and they've got their rewards.
01:04We'll have more on this story coming up in the programme to discuss just why Mitchell has left.
01:09And following Sunderland's promotion to the Premier League with their victory in the Championship play-off final,
01:17Enzo Le Fay is set to remain at the club because of a promotion clause in his contract that will see him remain on wearside because Sunderland have gone up.
01:26First of all, a strong teammate. I think I want to reiterate this idea because he started as a left winger.
01:34He probably played most of the time in this position. And when we had the opportunity to play with Romain again,
01:42it was possible to use Enzo in his main position. But because the background of the experiences was small,
01:53only 30 minutes at the end of the game against Coventry, probably their references were not really clean.
02:01So during this game we felt that our position, the connection in the midfield were not perfect,
02:08but we felt that the experience of playing was useful.