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Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe will hold end of season talks with a clutch of his Toon squad as he plans the next phase of his project at St James' Park.

Those talks are likely to begin soon after Newcastle's final game of the season at Burnley next weekend. Howe has played down talk of departures in recent weeks as he focused on the job of survival at Newcastle but with that task completed successfully, player agents are starting to reopen dialogue on their clients' next move.

The Magpies have a number of players with question marks above them going into the close season with squad members such as Karl Darlow, Dwight Gayle, Isaac Hayden, Jeff Hendrick, Matty Longstaff, Jamal Lewis, Ciaran Clark and Matt Ritchie all linked with departures in recent weeks. Darlow was subject to talk of a summer move to West Bromwich Albion this morning.

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