Full-back aims to ensure players stay ‘level-headed’Return to European elite worth millions for Eddie Howe
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.
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