Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has insisted the process of signing players is the same whether he is shopping in the bargain basement or at top-end stores.
The Magpies smashed their record transfer fee on Friday when they clinched a deal understood to amount to £58million for Real Sociedad’s 22-year-old Sweden international striker Alexander Isak, in the process taking their spending since the club’s new owners took up the reins to around £210m.
