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Alexander Isak wants to leave Newcastle this summer(Image: Ed Sykes/Getty Images)

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe insists the club have not put a timescale on a decision regarding Alexander Isak's future but confessed that the Liverpool target could leave the club this summer.

The Swedish striker, who has become the team's leading light over his three years at St James' Park, has expressed a desire to explore his options away from the Magpies.

It means Newcastle, despite winning a trophy and qualifying for the Champions League, could lose their best player.

If Isak were to leave it would require a British-record transfer fee to tempt Newcastle and, currently, Liverpool are the only Premier League club to come forward.

Howe claimed there would be no immediate decision made as the club weigh up what's best in the long run.

He said: "I wouldn't put a timescale on it.

I think with these situations it has to be right for the football club, and everything then is taken into context below that.

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"But the club will make the right decision with all the information that it has, and ultimately to try and move the club forward in whatever way that is.

There's a whole football club that has to make the decision.

The manager of course has an opinion, but ultimately the decision will rest with the board."

He added: "Of course there's things going on behind the scenes (with Alex).
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