New sporting director Ross Wilson will lead an audit into the contract situation of Newcastle United’s top players as the club look to head off a repeat of the damaging Alexander Isak saga.
Isak’s acrimonious departure exposed potential issues for Newcastle in retaining their best players moving forward, especially if there is interest from the Premier League’s top clubs in them.
While Isak’s behaviour was dreadful there has always been an acceptance behind the scenes that the Newcastle project needs to keep pace with the aspirations of their best players, and ultimately the Swede exposed a fissure that the club’s new hierarchy needs to address: can they keep hold of their elite stars?
Insiders admit Newcastle must “learn the lessons” from the summer when Isak’s camp claimed that mothba