“He has really impressed in his time with us,” Howe said on Isak last night. “His initial injury he picked up was a blow for us but it probably allowed him, looking at a positive, to settle in and allowed him to watch a lot from the sidelines and pick up a lot of what we ask him to do. Then when he came back to fitness he was excellent for us at the back end of last season.
“[He] dovetailed brilliantly with Callum Wilson, played a number of different positions for us. He is just a super technician, a very intelligent footballer and has the ability to win you a game by producing something unexpected. He is a real talent.”