Ranking the Newcastle squad by likeliness of a summer sale

Liverpool happy to wait and to break transfer record for Jude

Ronaldo hip stopping training but not selection

Arsenal, West Ham & Newcastle keen on 'concerned' star

Abramovich receiving plenty of bids

Old Trafford eyes on Bayern star contract expiry

Palace, Leeds & Watford lead way in most managers list

The relegation battle will go down to the wire

Most improved XI has three of Wolves stingy defence

Everton frontman interesting Gunners

It will be a big summer transfer window for Newcastle United, especially with relegation now looking almost impossible

To bring in the big-name players they desire, some of the current crop will have to leave. Excluding players out of contract, we rank the Magpies’ first-team squad by how likely they are to be sold in the summer.

T24) All four permanent January signings

There is pretty much no chance Chris Wood, Bruno Guimaraes, Dan Burn or Kieran Trippier leave in the summer.

23) Allan Saint-Maximin

The tricky Frenchman is probably the only player that the club’s new owners would want to sign if he wasn’t already at the club.

22) Joe Willock

Willock signed for a reported £25m last summer and is beginning to thrive under head coach Eddie Howe.

21) Joelinton

Newcastle’s club-record signing would have been one of the most likely to leave St James’ Park this summer, but his recent turnaround under Howe has been astonishing. Once a fumbling striker, Joelinton is now a combative box-to-box midfielder and one of the first names on the teamsheet.

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20) Callum Wilson

Wilson has struggled with injuries during his whole Newcastle career but his goals have often been their saviour in the Premier League. It’s only his injury-proneness