Alexander Isak has NOT travelled with Newcastle on pre-season tour amid Liverpool transfer interest
Eddie Howe is taking his men to Singapore, where they will face Arsenal, but he will have to do without his key man.
That's because Isak is nursing a minor thigh injury and a long haul flight would not help in his recovery.
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