The upbeat feel around the club generated by their historic Carabao Cup win will continue. Saturday’s huge celebration on the city’s Town Moor is the first opportunity for fans to toast the achievement of a squad who will fully reconvene at the end of the week after their international exertions.
The nature of the Wembley victory over the Premier League’s champions-elect – Newcastle dominant in every aspect of the game – was remarkable because it came at the end of a period of fixtures in which the Magpies were struggling to find authority.
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Talk of a reset, buoyed by an improved position in relation to the league’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules(PSR), has dominated discussions at St James’ Park for months and director of football Paul Mitchell is known to want to lower the age of the squad.
It is a “priority” for the club in the coming months, with the sale of Miguel Almiron in January firing the starting pistol for the club to put into action their succession plan.
Two of them – perhaps the most compelling “plug in and play” options who would be able to make an instant impact – are likely to command eye-watering sums.
Brentford anticipate interest for Bryan Mbeumo this summer (Photo: PA)
In-demand Bryan Mbeumo is another Newcastle are keen on and Brentford anticipate interest in the forward. A fascinating option also on their radar, The i Paper understands, is the Sporting Lisbon winger Francisco Trincao. The former Wolves loanee is available this summer and is understood to be keen on a move back to the Premier League.
“People talk about the likes of Dean Huijsen and Newcastle’s interest there but every director of football wants to get a Huijsen for £12m [his fee last summer] rather than the £50m he is now,” they said.
A new blueprint
The fact that Mitchell is yet to broker a single significant deal at Newcastle makes forecasting the close season difficult. But, as The i Paper reported back in December, he was leading advanced negotiations with Lens for centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov after the club carried out extensive due diligence on the Uzbekistan international.
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If Newcastle can get to those sort of players first it will show that he has managed to successfully recast their recruitment policy. That is why talk of moves for the likes of Jack Grealish appears unlikely.
Murphy represents so much of what Howe has been able to achieve at Newcastle – his improvement is testament to the manager’s coaching acumen and also his own resilience.
In a way, it sums up the stage the Magpies have now reached – keen to upgrade for the challenges ahead but desperate to retain the values that have propelled them to some of the most memorable days in their recent history.
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