Information that Newcastle need to shore up their again line shouldn’t actually come as an excessive amount of of a shock on condition that solely Brighton and Hove Albion out of the Premier League’s prime 11 groups have conceded extra objectives in 2023/24.
Regardless of being good going ahead, any staff that wishes to compete on the very prime, each domestically and in Europe, must have a basis of a powerful defence.
Eddie Howe will at all times have the excuse that accidents have decimated his squad this season and that’s true in fact.
Nonetheless, reasonably than persevering with with a swashbuckling fashion of play while key males are sidelined, a extra pragmatic fashion isn’t more likely to be frowned upon if it means outcomes proceed to stay constructive.
In keeping with Calciomercato (h/t The Exhausting Deal with), the Magpies are probably buying Lazio’s 29-year-old centre-back Alessio Romagnoli.
An skilled campaigner, it’s believed that he might present the solidity that Newcastle’s again 4 have been missing, although with a contract that doesn’t run out till 2027, any deal might show problematic due to the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability laws.
The participant would, apparently, take into account any gives that are available in for his providers, albeit he would seem like completely completely happy to proceed his profession within the Italian capital.
Newcastle due to this fact have their work reduce out to attempt to land him throughout the subsequent couple of weeks.