Bees star Wissa still a Toon target

WHAT a week of transfer talk on Tyneside, eh?

- By AARON STOKES

As Eddie Howe and his players got down to work in Austria, the club's top brass behind the scenes have been attempting to recruit well, while telling one interested suitor in particular that Alexander Isak is strictly not for sale.

As of Friday morning, a deal for Hugo Ekitike was dead, with the Frenchman seemingly Liverpool-bound. Isak, as such, is likely to stay - as he always was.