Sean Longstaff has been given further assurances from Eddie Howe that he does have a bright future at Newcastle United.
Howe is eager for Longstaff to sign the long-term contract offered to him in recent times and wants him to join Paul Dummett next season as one of the core of homegrown players at the first-team training base in Benton. Longstaff has been sitting on the same deal he signed back in 2018 before he'd even made his Premier League debut.
Contract talks broke down between Longstaff, Steve Bruce and former managing director Lee Charnley in 2019 and both parties took something of a standoff. Yet Howe is keen for Longstaff to remain on Tyneside.