Magpies must show they are building – and give white-hot Isak new deal

IF NEWCASTLE United are to win at Burnley’s Turf Moor home as is their need then it might come down to their two goal kings.

Alexander Isak and Callum Wilson have between them dominated the top of United’s scoring charts, and both notched when sending Sheffield United crashing back to the Championship.

Isak is white hot, the new supremo at a job which has always created heroes for Geordies. His double to down the Blades took his Premier League total to 19 which jumped him above Wilson’s final tally of last season and puts him in sight of Alan Shearer’s 22 from the 2003-04 campaign with four matches in which to catch the master.

Can he actually threaten Big Al not once but twice? Alex’s overall total rests at 23 close to the 28 by Newcastle’s all-time record goalscorer in the same season.

He is, quite frankly, indispensable.

Eddie Howe has called Isak the best. Harry Redknapp has called him the best. And now comes the time for United to reward him with the contract he deserves as I am sure they will.

Not to would be plain stupid, opening them up to accusations of becoming a selling club not a building club. That is what United were happy to be under Mike Ashley but were not bought by Saudi oil to remain.

As for Wilson, when you can get him on the track he is dynamite. His drawback is obvious – he doesn’t play anywhere near enough – but he has eight PL goals so far from eight starts and 10 sub apps and is only three short of a round 50 for the club. Others in the chorus line can take centre stage, of course, but the blue-eyed boys are definitely those who play centre-forward and regularly bring goals to Newcastle.

However, let no one underestimate Anthony Gordon. He is a leading light in his own right with 11 goals and a bagful of assists which have catapulted him into the England plans of a usually cautious Gareth Southgate.

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