We aren’t sitting back, we want to build further on last season’s success – Dan Burn | OneFootball

Dan Burn had a stellar season.

The 2024/25 campaign saw him play a key part in Newcastle United qualifying for the Champions League for a second time in three seasons, as well as of course picking up silverware at Wembley.

On a personal level, Dan Burn also of course got called up by Thomas Tuchel and picked up his first England caps.

The big lad from Blyth though insists that he and the rest of the Newcastle United squad are not sitting back on what was achieved last season, they are intent on building from there, for an even better 2025/26 season…

Dan Burn speaking ahead of Newcastle United playing Team K-League all stars on Wednesday, quotes via club media – 29 July 2025:

“Being a Newcastle fan myself, sometimes you think that it’s only the city of Newcastle that supports the team, but coming away and seeing thousands of people in the airport and how excited they were to see us shows why we do come over here.

“Obviously it’s good commercially good for the club but for the players and staff to feel the love that we had was very exciting.

“We’re very, very happy to be here.

“We feel in a very lucky position, I think it’s somewhere that probably we wouldn’t get to experience, South Korea, if it wasn’t for football.

“My first experience of football was the 2002 World Cup, which was in South Korea and Japan, where we visited last year, so it feels like a bit of a full circle moment for me.

“I’m excited to play the game (against Team K-League all stars).

“It’s going to be tough – a lot of the players will be in the middle of their season, so I’m expecting them to be very sharp compared to where we are in our pre-season. The heat will be a big factor as well, but I think it’s good that we can play the heat and get ourselves ready for the Premier League season.

“We are expecting a tough team, along with the conditions, and we will be have to be at top of our game.

“We were a lot better in the Arsenal game than the Celtic game and I think going into that week probably a little less fatigued helped as well. So we’re building. We’re expecting a big support for the K League team but we’ve got a lot of Newcastle support as well.

“Hopefully it’s a game where we can get our forward players on the ball as much as possible. We signed Anthony Elanga, who is very, very quick; Jacob Murphy scored a great goal against Arsenal; Anthony Gordon, Harvey Barnes and I think Will Osula has done really well.

“With Alex (Isak) not being here, it’s given him (Osula) game time he may not not have got as much of, but he played really well the other night so hopefully he will continue that.

“We had a very good season last season.

“Champions League qualification and winning the cup was amazing, but we don’t want to just sit on that. We want to build again.

“We’ve got that experience of the Champions League this year from two years ago to learn from, so I think we’ll be better prepared for that, and we want to keep moving forward.

“For me, I just want to keep playing well with Newcastle. I had a really good season last year. I want to improve on that and hopefully international games will come from that – and maybe the World Cup.”

Newcastle United pre-season friendly schedule 2025/26

(Saturday 12 July – Newcastle 4 Carlisle 0 (Behind closed doors))

Saturday 19 July – Celtic 4 Newcastle 0

Sunday 27 July – Arsenal 3 Newcastle 2

Wednesday 30 July – Team K-League all stars v Newcastle (8pm local time and 12pm UK time)

Sunday 3 August- Spurs v Newcastle (8pm local time and 12pm UK time)

Friday 8 August – Newcastle v Espanyol (7.30pm)