Callum Wilson signs new deal at Newcastle while Eddie Howe urges team to rediscover mojo

Newcastle United striker Callum Wilson has agreed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at the club until 2025.

Wilson has been top scorer for the Magpies every season since joining from Bournemouth for around £20 million in 2020 and now has 40 goals in 86 appearances.

The 31-year-old, whose previous deal would have ended in 2024, hit a new top-flight career high last season when he found the net 18 times helping Newcastle to a fourth-place finish and qualify for the Champions League.

He now sits fifth in the club's all-time Premier League goalscorers chart, one behind Les Ferdinand who is on 41, and eight more goals will see him move into second place behind only Alan Shearer's record total of 260.

“I've been welcomed ever since I came through the door,” said Wilson in a statement on the club's website. “Now the club's going in a fantastic direction and on a journey, so it's nice to commit my future to being a part of that.

“We've got some great things to look forward to and I think being around here – the city, the fan base – is what players dream of, so I can't wait to be around for the next few years.

“When I first joined the club, I had ambitions to come back to the Premier League having been relegated with Bournemouth and over the first few interviews I mentioned Europe and I mentioned getting to 100 Premier League goals.

“They were ambitions of mine and they still are. I'm close to get into the '100 Club' and also becoming the second all-time Premier League scorer for Newcastle would be an amazing achievement, having looked up to Shearer for many years.”