Howe can now finally brutally axe "embarrassed" NUFC flop by signing "exemplary" titan - opinion

An update has emerged regarding Newcastle United and their interest in FC Koln defender Timo Hubers…

According to the Daily Mail, the Magpies are one of the teams eyeing up a swoop for the centre-back, who is valued at £6m by his club. His contract expires in the summer of 2023 and he is now available for a cut-price fee in the Bundesliga outfit’s last chance to cash in on him.

The report claimed that Crystal Palace, Southampton, West Ham and Leeds are among the other Premier League clubs interested in a deal for the defender.

Eddie Howe must push to complete this deal and use Hubers’ arrival as another reason to brutally axe Ciaran Clark from the club.

The Magpies must cash in on the Irishman and replace him with the German defender, as it would be a significant upgrade to the squad.

Clark was omitted from the club’s Premier League squad for the second half of the season at the end of January and is currently wasting away without being able to play for the first team. He was left out of the 25-man list after a dreadful 18 months on the pitch, averaging a dismal WhoScored rating of 6.64 in the 2020/21 campaign.

This term, he averaged a rating of 6.24 in the first half of the campaign. Clark also let the team down in a friendly in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, with journalist Josh Bunting claiming that the 32-year-old “embarrassed himself” after he was sent off for making contact with an opposition player’s face.

He was nowhere near good enough to compete in the Premier League and this resulted in Howe leaving him out of his squad heading into the rest of the campaign.

Hubers, who Hannover’s sporting director Gerhard Zuber once dubbed “exemplary”, has averaged a superb WhoScored rating of 7.13 in the Bundesliga this