Newcastle Transfers: 5 Players Who Could Help Stave Off Relegation

5 players who could help Newcastle stave off relegation

yesterday:

"We need to get our best players back and quickly. We need to sustain ourselves and make sure we're a Premier League team next season."
It's true, the Magpies do have an alarming injury problem. The likes of Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye and Papiss Cisse are all currently out, which has left Newcastle looking pretty stretched and threadbare as they prepare to enter what could be a decisive period of their season which sees them play relegation rivals Reading and Aston Villa this month. If the Magpies are to avoid hurtling down the trapdoor again, then they must add to the recent capture of Mathieu Debuchy and re-build a team who right now look like sure-fire relegation fodder. Here are 5 players who could help Newcastle avoid relegation.

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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.