Shearer to extend Magpies contract
Veteran striker Alan Shearer will finish his playing days at hometown club Newcastle after agreeing a one-year extension to his contract.
The 33-year-old hopes to put pen to paper on a new deal which will expire at the end of the 2004-05 season before Saturday's Premiership trip to Everton.
That will mean the former England skipper will have spent nine years with the club he supported as a boy, but did not join until his £15m move from Blackburn in July 1996.
Shearer would have signed his extension earlier, but talks were put on hold following the death of chairman Freddy Shepherd's mother last week.
He said: "I haven't signed it yet, but it's all been agreed and I hope and am confident that we can get it done before Saturday's game, before the weekend.
"Hopefully it will be signed on Friday before we head off, but because of the sad circumstances the chairman had earlier in the week, it was understandably put on the backburner and not spoken about for a few days.
"But we're hopeful that it can be done on Friday. It's all been agreed.''
This might end the speculation of moving to Liverpool and Tottenham. :danc:
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