Newcastle United agreement ‘close’ as player post two-word social media message

Newcastle United goalkeeper Martin Dubravaka celebrated his 36th birthday with a 3-0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday

And with that marked a ninth consecutive win in all competitions for the Magpies and Dubravka since he replaced the injured Nick Pope a month ago. In those games, the Slovakian has conceded only three times and kept seven clean sheets.

Winning and being defensively solid has become the norm of late. It may be short and sweet but Dubravka simply writing “another one” on social media after the game is exactly right. Eddie Howe’s side are flying!

Rewind the clock back 10 days and there was doubt over whether Dubravka would actually remain at Newcastle beyond the January transfer window.