Chris Dunlavy

If Newcastle supporters had been told a decade ago that a local lad would score for the Magpies in the Champions League, most would have assumed you meant Adam Armstrong.
As a teenager in Newcastle’s youth ranks, Armstrong scored at a prodigious rate and was widely regarded as the heir to Alan Shearer.

A spectacular loan spell at Coventry in 2015-16 only hardened that conviction and when the Toon were relegated to the Championship that very same season it appeared the stage was set.

“The main thing is to give him the opportunity to show his level,” said then manager Rafa B...