With each passing day, Kieran Trippier's £12m transfer fee looks more and more like a total steal. For Newcastle United to land a player of the right-back's technical ability, blessed with such off-the-pitch leadership remains the biggest coup of new era.
Trippier has time and time again showed his influence on the Magpies dressing room and last week was no different. The 32-year-old was on hand at Newcastle's Benton training base to welcome new boy Sandro Tonali to the club.
Trippier, Eddie Howe and Dan Ashworth were all on hand to show the Italian around his new surroundings, with the Newcastle captain using his experience in Madrid to offer words of advice to Tonali and his family.
