Newcastle's Lewis Hall
Newcastle selling Lewis Hall next summer has not been completely ruled out.
Hall is understood to have signed a new contract committing his future to the Magpies until 2031.
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Hall's new contract will run until 2031
The left-back was a target for Manchester United this summer and he was believed to be open to a move.
United were told he was not for sale, regardless of what they offered.
Now Hall is expected to become one of the best-paid players at St James' Park, in recognition of his importance for new manager Matthias Jaissle.
Inside Lewis Hall’s contract extension
talkSPORT reporter Ben Jacobs said: “It's a five-year contract that adds two years to the existing deal. So it keeps Hall at the club until 2031.
“There were always these two extremes at play. Either Manchester United would make an approach, would have to overpay, and Hall would have been somewhat open to that move.
“Or he stays and under the new manager, Matthias Jaissle, is invested in the project, and then he signs a new deal.
“But it was never just going to continue with Hall staying and not being offered improved terms.
“Newcastle have been able to keep Hall because he was never unhappy with Newcastle the club, only unhappy with how last season ended, where he was in and out of the side.
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“He lost his England place. Dan Burn, his Newcastle teammate, got picked in his place.
“All of that led Hall to, in the early part of the summer, at least put the brakes on signing because the nuts and bolts of this deal were in place in February or March.
Newcastle manager Matthias Jaissle3
Jaissle emphatically ruled out a summer move for Hall
“Then Eddie Howe leaves, Matthias Jaissle comes in. He's had a very positive effect on all players, including Lewis Hall. And Jaissle has told Hall he is integral, he is the number one left-back.
“Then from there, there was no hesitation in getting this deal over the line.
“Of course, we have to say with Morgan Rogers, he extended late last year. He still left the following summer.
“So I don't think we can say categorically, depending on how the season goes, that Hall is unavailable in the summer 2027 market.
“But it's a really positive sign for Newcastle. If everything now goes according to plan, then Hall will remain invested in this project.”
Newcastle’s summer overhaul
It has been a summer of upheaval for Newcastle having brought in £244million by selling Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes.
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Gordon was one of three key players sold by Newcastle this summer
Sporting director Ross Wilson has hinted this could continue in the years ahead.
"If you want to be a successful club in the Premier League, you have to trade players and if you don't the chances are you won't be a successful club in the Premier League," Wilson said.
"This is what we've got to do. And if you don't do it, then just keep the squad you've got and forevermore they'll grow old, achieve less and leave for nothing."
Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan believes Newcastle will never get to their aim of being a Premier League winning club if they maintain this course of action.
Jordan: “If you want to be a club that's winning the Premier League, then you've got to do two things. You've got to keep your best players and you've got to massively, massively increase the revenue of this football club.
“If you're going to compete with Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, even Tottenham, irrespective of whether Tottenham's form on the field at the moment is dreadful, you have got to get your turnover up by double what you've got now.”
He added: “They sold Tonali, Guimaraes, and Isak.
“They'll keep him (Hall) until someone else comes along and decides they're going to take him.
“By the admission of their sporting director, they will continue to sell players to comply with PSR because the rules of PSR are so patently unfair for teams like Newcastle.”