Where are we right now? As we sit here Tuesday morning, I believe he's at the training ground.

He was in yesterday, receiving treatment. I think Eddie will probably come in at some point today to see him. I don't know that for sure. I'm waiting on information on that at the moment. The rest of the players are off. They really return back tomorrow. But look, without doubt, he's going to have to sit down and face up to Eddie, explain his situation. Eddie has been in this situation a number of times before throughout his career,

and he's brought players back on side and kept, managed to keep the morale high.

I would suggest if he's, of any situation he's been in light of this,

this will be the toughest one to try and bring it around if they

failed to sell, fail to sell ESAC. But look, I firmly believe that if Newcastle bring in a

replacement and they're quite far down the line with doing so, then ESAC will be allowed to leave

if Liverpool stump up at an offer that they deem acceptable. Yeah, I was going to ask you that momentarily.

My next question was actually going to be the mood amongst the fan base and indeed the club,

but you address that there.

So that can be left for now.

Well, I think it's probably just worth adding this.

I stood outside St James's Park three weeks ago

and talked about the possibility of Newcastle having both Alexander Isak and Hugo Eke

and the ranks next season.

And I was like, wow, that's that wet the fan's appetite.

That's a real game changer.

Even just for one season, just to have Isak to play alongside Ekekeke

Tiki before selling him next year.

Newcastle United must be the only club in the world

that within three weeks go from potentially having both of them to then having none of them.

So that probably gives you an idea of how the fan base feel at the moment.

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