His approach should not come as a surprise.<\/p>\n
Trippier admitted it will be “emotional” to leave Newcastle<\/a> at the end of his contract, after spending longer at the club than anywhere else in his senior career.<\/p>\n He is determined to end his four-and-a-half-year spell on a high, and could even come back into the side for a final run following injuries to Lewis Miley and Tino Livramento.<\/p>\n There is likely to be a familiar look to the team which lines up against Nottingham Forest<\/a> on Sunday, as a result.<\/p>\n Nick Pope, Trippier, Dan Burn, Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton, Sandro Tonali, Joe Willock and Jacob Murphy could start. They all featured when Newcastle<\/a> ended a 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy by winning the EFL Cup last season.<\/p>\n It was Trippier who set up Burn’s opener in the 2-1 win against Liverpool<\/a> in the final, before he went on to lift the trophy alongside skipper Guimaraes and previous club captain Jamaal Lascelles at Wembley.<\/p>\n But that had not necessarily been part of Trippier’s “selfless” plan, as former team-mate Callum Wilson explained.<\/p>\n “He was not interested in lifting the trophy,” said the striker, who is now at West Ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It took myself and a few other senior players to say, ‘Go on, get your hands on the trophy and lift it with everybody – all three of you do it together because it’s a team effort’.<\/p>\n “Ultimately, he played a big part in that as well so I felt like that moment really summed him up as a character.”<\/p>\n Such a prospect felt a long way off when the pair spoke on FaceTime to discuss relegation-threatened Newcastle<\/a>‘s plight – several weeks before Trippier joined the club from Atletico Madrid in January 2022.<\/p>\n The right-back proved a catalyst, as the first signing in the aftermath of the club’s Saudi-led takeover, and convinced others like Guimaraes to follow in the mid-season window.<\/p>\n Yet Trippier’s decision to swap life in the Champions League for an immediate survival battle led to accusations of greed externally.<\/p>\n The reality was a little different.<\/p>\n The Bury native wanted to return to the north of England for personal reasons and took a pay cut to reunite with head coach Eddie Howe, who he previously worked with at Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n There was not even a relegation release clause in his contract.<\/p>\n Rather than being a mercenary, the La Liga title winner’s standards, approach to training and desire to help lifted a group which had only recorded a single victory up to that point.<\/p>\n Trippier’s presence behind the scenes quickly struck former team-mate Jonjo Shelvey.<\/p>\n