Newcastle United boss Chris Hughton is confident of keeping his best players for next season's Premiership return.

Fabricio Coloccini and Jonas Gutierrez have both pledged their futures to the Toon.

Hughton told The Journal: "The players want to be here. We have a group of lads who have wanted to be at this club.

"Your Coloccinis, your Gutiérrezs... I saw something from (Jonas) Gutiérrez in one of the papers yesterday about whether it would have been better for him to be somewhere else with the World Cup coming up.

"He made a conscious decision to stay here and that is pleasing.

"What we have had are players who wanted to be here. The fact we have now enabled them to get to where they wanted to be (the Premier League) is a big boost.

"It means I particularly would not anticipate anyone wanting to leave this summer."