No concerns about key Newcastle United players leaving this summer – Here’s why | OneFootball

As well as endless claims of players set to be signing up at St James’ Park, we are now also experiencing the same with Newcastle United players supposedly leaving.

The summer hysteria heating up nicely.

When it comes to ‘exclusives’ on Newcastle United players leaving, the same names crop up time and time again.

Funnily enough, the ‘exclusives’ are pretty much never about the players who you’d think Eddie Howe and NUFC would be feasibly wanting to sell.

Instead, headline after headline focuses on the likes of Alexander Isak, Tino Livramento, Sandro Tonali and other key NUFC players potentially set to leave, according to the media.

I have no concerns at all about key Newcastle United players leaving St James’ Park this summer.

It isn’t that I think it is impossible that any of our best players will leave, history tells us that nothing is ever for sure.

Instead, the fact I have no concerns at all, is to do with the position NUFC are in when it comes to contracts (see below).

The nightmare situation is when you are in a weak position and could lose a key player for far below their true value, or even for nothing.

We saw it with Liverpool and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Palace are now in a position where Marc Guehi only has 12 months remaining on his current deal and has repeatedly refused to sign a new extended deal, other clubs in similar positions with some of their best/key players.

At Newcastle it is a very different story.

Great work done over the past year or two means that all of Tonali, Isak, Livramento, Bruno, Joelinton, Hall and Gordon, have at least three more years left on their United contracts.

I don’t think any of these NUFC stars will leave this summer but why be worrying unnecessarily about the endless media fantasy speculation about them supposedly heading for other clubs? The fact is that if any of these players did leave, with zero contract pressure to sell any of them, it would mean Newcastle United demanding absolute full valuation, plus the rest, on any of them.

If any of these players left, Newcastle United would bank massive amounts of cash and Eddie Howe would have far far more scope to bring in new signings. This is a completely different situation compared to those clubs where their star players have them over a barrel. Where they have allowed a situation to develop where one or more of their biggest assets holds all the cards.

I would of course be gutted to lose say an Isak or Tonali, but even if for whatever reason(s) they or others wanted to leave, you know for a fact that the Newcastle United owners wouldn’t allow that to happen unless eyewatering amounts of cash came in.

I have found it refreshing in recent times to read comments from the more sensible clued up fans of other clubs, when even though the media continue to claim that say Alexander Isak is going to Liverpool, Arsenal or wherever, the same with Tino Livarmento to Manchester City speculation, many of these clued up supporters of those claimed buying clubs are honest enough to say that it is all nonsense. That even if Newcastle United were open to selling any of their key players, the valuations NUFC would insist on, meaning their clubs couldn’t/wouldn’t buy them.

Sven Botman is probably the only real exception below, as I would put him in the elite must keep group of Newcastle United players, but he has only two years left on his contract. However, with his ongoing injury problems these past two seasons, Newcastle aren’t vulnerable to bids for the talented Dutch defender, as rival clubs wouldn’t be wanting to pay anything like top dollar for someone who needs to prove their fitness over an extended period. I think that once Sven Botman does that, it will then be a club priority to get him on a new extended contract, joining the other key NUFC players.

How the Newcastle United players contract situation now looks (via official club releases and media reports), when current deals are up:

End of June 2025:

Wilson, Ruddy, Lewis

End of June 2026:

Schar, Targett, Pope, Longstaff, Ashby, Hayden, Trippier, Krafth, Dubravka, Lascelles, Gillespie

End of June 2027:

Botman, Burn, Jacob Murphy, Willock, Vlachodimos

End of June 2028:

Tonali, Isak, Barnes, Livramento, Bruno, Miley, Joelinton, Alex Murphy

End of June 2029: