Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has said that the club now possess the right "mentality" and "quality" necessary to end their 43-year wait for a trophy.
However, he believes that qualifying for the Champions League would be a bigger achievement than winning a domestic cup.
"Obviously, we want to win something - you shouldn't be in the game unless you want to win something," he said. "Winning for us would be actually qualifying for the Champions League - that would be winning for us, 100%. It would be like winning a trophy.
"But our fans would like to see a nice big cup, I am sure, and hopefully we can achieve that somewhere down the line.
"We are getting to the stage where there's a mentality and a quality in the group that could win a competition such as the this."
Pardew was speaking ahead of the Magpies' trip to Manchester United in round three of the League Cup this evening.
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