Newcastle will not allow their best players to leave if they are missing in the Champions League this season, sending a clear and robust message to rival clubs, intermediaries and their own locker room.
After a sequence of three defeats in four Premier League games, Eddie Howe’s team fell from the five best places that will qualify for the best European competition.
This has given rise to new discussions in football circles interested in Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes.
However, because the club will enter the summer in a strong position from the point of view of the PSR and will have all their most precious players on long -term contracts, there is no appetite or need to leave the ‘One of them leave, if they ask to do so.
It is rather the wish and intention of the club to keep most of the team together and to add to it before next season, whether or not they play European football.
For all players who have the ambition to play in the Champions League, the message is clear – you will have to win it here.
Alexander Isak aroused the interest of the Premier League clubs and in Europe in the middle of his impressive campaign
Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes (LR) were also linked to movements this summer
Eddie Howe’s team has lost ground in the race to qualify for the next quarter of the Champions League
The club hierarchy was frustrated by a drop in performance during recent defeats in the Bournemouth league, Fulham and Manchester City, especially when the same players produced a Herculean effort on two legs of their semi-final of the Cup Cup Carabao against Arsenal, resulting with regard to the semi-final of the Carabao Cup against Arsenal, resulting in a 4-0 global victory.
Howe will undoubtedly be aware of his players that anyone has an eye on the final against Liverpool on March 16 risks losing their place in the team.
With Callum Wilson and Harvey Barnes returning to Fitness and Sven Botman and Jelinton who should be back in the coming weeks, Howe will probably have more options than it has currently come on Wembley.
In the meantime, there are four championship games which will greatly contribute to determining if Newcastle can recover their position among the first five, which they rest two places and two points beyond.
Securing a return to the Champions League would greatly help to appease stars who, according to Howe, were “ unstable ” by the activities at the club last summer, when young talents such as Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh have been sold to satisfy a PSR deficit.
Popular co -owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi left the club in the middle of a power struggle in the conference room.
Now, after three transfer windows without signature of the first team and several outings weakening the team, as well as no tangible progress in three years of Saudi property on a new stadium or a new training field, the questions continue to be Located in the locker room the club’s management and its travel speed.
The Magpies hope to qualify for the Champions League took another blow on Saturday after a 4-0 defeat by Manchester City
Newcastle was forced to sell young talents Elliot Anderson (left) and Yankuba Minteh to meet their PSR requirements
But with announcements due on these out -of -field projects and the club having endured what Howe calls “short -term pain for long -term gain” with regard to their transfer activity, there is an anticipation that this summer will point out a renewed ambition period.
This is why the club will resist any attempt to sign its best stars and will let them expect them to be part of an effort to qualify again for the Champions League, whether it be this season or beyond.