Eddie Howe has fired a stark warning to want-away Alexander Isak - Newcastle United players cannot expect to ‘act poorly’ and then train with their team-mates.
In an incredibly forthright message delivered from here in Seoul, the head coach told Mail Sport that the Swede must ‘earn the right’ to return to training in the coming days, if indeed he shows up.
Howe and the club had no idea that Isak had gone AWOL when he flew to Spain last week to use the training facilities at his former club Real Sociedad.
Before that, he ruled himself out of the squad’s Far East tour when he walked out of training citing a thigh injury.