Club legend Alan Shearer, though, has questioned why Isak would want to leave now that Newcastle have finally lifted the trophy monkey from their backs and believes last Sunday’s success could act as a springboard to greater things under Eddie Howe.
He told the BBC: ‘Kevin (Keegan) and Sir Bobby (Robson) were both fantastic for the club and both brought different things, but they didn’t bring a trophy. That’s what Newcastle fans have yearned for and now Eddie has done it.
‘Of course now we want more of the same. I look at what happened at Chelsea after they won their first trophy under Jose Mourinho, the 2005 League Cup, and at Manchester City when they ended their long wait for a trophy with the 2011 FA Cup.
‘There are no guarantees, obviously, and we don’t know what will happen next but I am really hoping this is just the start of something very special in the years ahead for Newcastle, and that this trophy is the first of many.’
