The seven clues something is afoot at Newcastle

So what now for Newcastle United?

After Monday’s epic defeat to Liverpool, it is not stretching credibility to say the next seven days are some of the most important of the new era.

Here is why it feels as if something big is stirring at St James’ Park.

1. Isak uncertainty is now damaging Newcastle

So could the deal of the decade still happen? You learn to never say never.

A high-profile Premier League executive once sketched out the final seven days of a typical summer transfer window as tracking the following pattern: quiet leading into the weekend games, get them out of the way and then – in his words – “All hell breaks loose”.

The bit we are in now, just out of matchweek two, with teams starting to fret a bit or bask in the afterglow of the opening fixtures, was “like the eye of