This has been a memorable season for Neave, who made his Champions League debut late on in the victory at Qarabag and then came off the bench to get his first taste of Premier League football in the final stages of the weekend defeat to Fulham.
Neave says he's learnt an awful lot from training with Newcastle's first team on a daily basis, but likes the idea of regular football which would hopefully come with a loan move next term.
"I feel like the past two years has been a really big step up," Neave told BBC Newcastle.
"Last season getting on the bench, then getting on the bench a lot this season.
"When I'm in the Under-21s I have to do what I have to do and stake a claim and I feel like I have done that. I've scored quite a few goals.
"Hopefully next season, wherever it is, I can regularly play first team football. That will help me a lot.
"I just want to be playing football week in week out. Now I have a sniff of it and I know what it's like, wherever it is I'll do my best."
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Neave was included in Newcastle's squad for 14 Premier League games this season and finally got a taste of the action when he was introduced late on at Craven Cottage on Sunday.
He said: "It's really special for me. Boyhood fan, a fan of the club my whole life.
"Making my Premier League debut along with my Champions League debut earlier in the season, it's been really special for me, really surreal. I wasn't expecting it to come any time soon.
"I had no clue. I went and warmed up, the gaffer shouted me back in and said 'get ready'.
"Hopefully more moments like this can come. I just want to thank the gaffer and the members of staff for getting me to this point.
"Hearing the fans sing my name, that's what I used to do when I was a kid. It means so much."
Neave believes he's come on leaps and bounds over the course of the last year.
He said: "Training with all these top players has really helped me.
"The standard in training is a joke so when I came on the pitch I knew what I expected."