Kieran Trippier has stressed that Newcastle’s Carabao Cup win will not distract the team from their overriding ambition this season of achieving Champions League qualification.
Trippier is a key member of Newcastle’s dressing-room leadership group as vice-captain and his message to teammates will be unequivocal. “Myself and the rest of the leadership group will keep everybody level-headed,” the former England full‑back said after making it plain that Eddie Howe’s squad had “definitely not” become legends overnight.
