9 New Faces Who Will Be At Newcastle Pre-Season Training

9. Karl Darlow

Signed alongside Jamaal Lascelles in the £7 million double raid of Nottingham Forest last summer, goalkeeper Karl Darlow was loaned back to the Championship club for a season. He will return to Newcastle for pre-season this summer competing with Rob Elliot to be Newcastle's second-choice goalkeeper, with Tim Krul firmly implanted as the club's No 1. At 24 he still has some developing to do but the former Aston Villa youth product enjoyed a pretty good season in 2014-15, keeping 11 clean sheets in 42 Championship appearances for a Forest side who struggled to find rhythm. Still unproven in the Premier League, but highly rated in the lower divisions, throwing Darlow into the goalkeeping slot in the (now unlikely) event that Krul leaves would represent a risk - but possibly one worth taking.