Ex-Arsenal ace Isaac Hayden to quit Newcastle this summer and will play last match this weekend
ISAAC HAYDEN’S last game in a Newcastle shirt will be Sunday’s clash at Fulham. The midfielder has been one of the Toon’s key players in the second half of this term, starting their last 19 Prem matches. But Hayden, who joined Newcastle from Arsenal for £2.5million in 2016, wants to move down south to be […]
ISAAC HAYDEN’S last game in a Newcastle shirt will be Sunday’s clash at Fulham.
The midfielder has been one of the Toon’s key players in the second half of this term, starting their last 19 Prem matches.
But Hayden, who joined Newcastle from Arsenal for £2.5million in 2016, wants to move down south to be closer to his fiancee, Lauren, and one-year-old daughter, Adriana.
Having failed to secure a deal to join another club in the last two transfer windows, he expects to go this summer.
Hayden, 24, said: “I think I will be going. I have spoken to the club about it and they’ve been open and honest with me.
FAMILY COMES FIRST
“In football you never know, so I can’t say for definite. But I’m sure last Saturday against Liverpool was my last game at home.
“Hopefully, something can be done and the club have been quite proactive with that, so I don’t think there will be a problem.
“It’s unfortunate but the club know my stance and have known it for a year. It’s about getting the deal right for the club and me.”
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Hayden’s fiancee Lauren was ill for the whole term of her pregnancy with hyperemesis gravidarum.
Adriana was born six weeks premature in 2017 and spent time in Portland Hospital in London, where she has check-ups.
He added: “My family are more important than football will ever be.”