Eddie Howe not looking to lose Alexander Isak after brilliant hat-trick

Eddie Howe issued a hands-off informing to immoderate imaginable January suitors of “world-class” Newcastle guardant Alexander Isak aft he struck a 54-minute hat-trick to animate a 4-0 triumph astatine Ipswich.

Isak opened his relationship pinch 26 seconds connected the timepiece erstwhile he fired location pursuing a mediocre clearance by Town skipper Sam Morsy, but the offside emblem was instantly raised.

A two-and-a-half-minute VAR cheque followed and the extremity was yet awarded earlier Isak sewage his 2nd connected the changeable of half-time erstwhile Bruno Guimaraes robbed Jens Cajuste, which provided the Swedish striker pinch a elemental tap-in.

Isak did not person to hold agelong to unafraid his first treble for the Magpies erstwhile he slotted into the bottommost area from Jacob Murphy’s backmost bottommost to return his tally for the nine to 43 goals successful 84 appearances to reenforce why plentifulness astir the world respect the 25-year-old.

“He is simply a world-class talent and the measurement he took his goals today, he has sewage that coolness successful beforehand of goal, that composure that very fewer players have,” Howe reflected.

“When you adhd his different qualities into the mix, really speedy he is, really technically talented he is, for me, he has sewage it all.”

With Newcastle eager to not autumn foul of Premier League Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) up of the wintertime transportation window, Howe was asked if he wanted to support Isak.

Howe smiled: “It makes maine laugh. Yeah, absolutely. There is nary portion of maine aliases anyone astatine Newcastle that wants to fto Alex go. He is very overmuch portion of our semipermanent plans and personally, I don’t spot that being an issue.

“He is motivated and he wants to do well. He has sewage large aspirations pinch his career, still comparatively young, truthful he has sewage hopefully a really agleam early up of him.

“I cognize his desire to people goals is 2nd to none. Every speech I person had astir Newcastle concerning his early pinch him has been very positive.

“I would emotion for him, pinch the different players, to beryllium the man and team-mates to lend towards america winning a trophy. That’s the aim.”

Ex-Norwich attacker Murphy was besides a thorn successful the Ipswich defence arsenic he smashed location successful the 32nd infinitesimal to adhd to 2 assists astatine the location of his aged club’s rivals.

Isak past took centre shape to thief Newcastle travel up a midweek 3-1 triumph astatine location to Brentford successful the Carabao Cup quarter-finals pinch a 3rd distant occurrence of the season.

Those coming astatine Portman Road besides sewage to witnesser the club’s first hat-trick since Ayoze Perez netted a treble against Southampton successful 2019.

“I’m amazed it has taken Alex this agelong to get a hat-trick pinch the qualities he has,” Howe admitted.

“I cognize he has sewage a batch of individual goals, a batch of doubles but I americium pleased because it is simply a unsocial thing.

“It is simply a crippled he’ll ne'er forget, his first hat-trick for Newcastle is simply a large infinitesimal and we return awesome pridefulness successful our players performing well. Hopefully location is different astir the corner.”

Ipswich endured a reliable day aft past weekend’s last-gasp triumph distant to Wolves and Kieran McKenna promised they would study from it.

“We person to return immoderate lessons from it, for sure,” he reflected.

“I person been saying that the group person been doing very, very good to beryllium arsenic competitory arsenic we person been.

“We person to beryllium adjacent to 100 per cent to beryllium competitory successful games and request to do each the correct things. We didn’t do that coming and travel up against a very bully opponent, who were amended than us.”