Premier League: Seven strikers at Newcastle United in the summer

Seven players in focus

“We will definitely be a club that will become a major force in world football,” Newcastle United’s most expensive winter signing, Bruno Guimarães, recently announced. On the way there, the Premier League club, which is threatened with relegation, still has to make some squad changes. According to the English “Times“The “Magpies” have identified seven prank candidates for the coming summer.

The newspaper quotes its own source as reporting a “major clearing out”. As part of this, players are to be sold after the end of the season, which have cost a total of 72 million euros. Newcastle, which has been 80 percent in the hands of a Saudi Arabian investment fund since last year, spent more than 100 million euros on newcomers in the past winter transfer window – the sum corresponds to almost a third of the winter expenditure of all Premier League clubs combined . The “Magpies” are thus one of the few clubs internationally, along with FC Barcelona, ​​Jiangsu FC, Arsenal and Juventus Turin, to have ever invested in the region of 100 million euros in the winter transfer window.

The Newcastle squad in detail
Market values, positions, contract periodFor an overview
More newcomers are to follow in the summer, and space is needed in the squad for the planned upgrade: According to the Times, center forward Dwight Gayle (market value EUR 2 million, contract until 2024), left-back Jamal Lewis (market value EUR 10 million, contract). until 2025) and Miguel Almirón (market value 16 million euros, contract until 2024) among the candidates for cancellation. In addition, the club is also with reserve goalkeeper Karl Darlow (market value EUR 3 million, contract until 2025), Isaac Hayden (market value EUR 10 million, contract until 2026), Ciaran Clark (market value EUR 2.5 million, contract until 2023 ) and the Swede Emil Krafth (market value 3 million euros, contract until 2023) willing to let them go immediately if there are corresponding offers.

Ex-Hoffenheimer Schär should now stay at Newcastle United

One whose future under ex-coach Steve Bruce was in question, but who should now stay, is former Hoffeheim player Fabian Schär. Coach Eddie Howe confirmed talks about an extension of the Swiss player’s working paper, which expires at the end of the season. The 30-year-old had played through the past twelve games and is set in the defensive center.

Since the FA Cup defeat by Cambridge United in early January, Newcastle have not lost six games in a row, winning four. In the Premier League table, the “Magpies” have worked their way back up to 14th place after 25 games and currently have a cushion of two points more and two games less than Burnley’s first relegation spot in 18th place. The team will meet on Saturday on Brighton & Hove Albion (from 4 p.m. in the Transfermarkt live ticker), whose ex-sports director Paul Ashworth, who left at the beginning of February, will be in charge of Newcastle in the future.

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