Newcastle transfer news: Magpies ‘in talks’ with Premier League club to sign ‘cheaper’ James Trafford alternative

Newcastle United person reportedly stepped up their involvement successful Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Carl Rushworth this summer.

The 25-year-old spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Championship rubric winners Coventry City and was named successful the division’s Team of the Year aft keeping 17 cleanable sheets successful 46 games.

Coventry person been keen to re-sign Rushworth on a imperishable deal, but they person already seen 2 offers implicit £20m rejected by Brighton.

Newcastle person since entered the contention for Rushworth, with the Daily Mail reporting that they are successful talks with Brighton implicit a projected summertime transfer.

The Magpies inactive clasp a long-standing involvement successful goalkeeper James Trafford, who joined Manchester City for astir £27m from Burnley past summer.

Trafford struggled for regular first-team shot astatine the Etihad Stadium, though, and was forced to play 2nd fiddle to Gianluigi Donnarumma, which has subsequently led to speculation implicit his future.

Newcastle keen to motion 1 of Rushworth oregon Trafford this summer

Newcastle are said to stay successful discissions with Man City implicit a imaginable transportation for Trafford, but helium is valued astatine astir £30m, making his imaginable acquisition somewhat much hard for Newcastle.

It is thought that Rushworth would beryllium a cheaper alternate to Trafford for Newcastle, who are keen to motion 1 of the 2 shot-stoppers to vie arsenic their caller fig one.

While Newcastle person generated £169m from the income of Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon this summer, they person spent adjacent to £100m of those funds on three caller players, including £24m connected shot-stopper Ewen Jaouen from Reims

Fellow 20-year-old Bazoumana Toure and 18-year-old Sean Steur person arrived from Hoffenheim and Ajax respectively, but manager Eddie Howe is keen to fortify his squad further up of the caller season.

The summation of a caller goalkeeper is thought to beryllium precocious connected the docket amid uncertainty implicit the semipermanent aboriginal of 34-year-old Nick Pope, who was Newcastle’s first-choice goalkeeper past season.

Rushworth is simply a subordinate who has entered the last 12 months of his declaration astatine the Amex Stadium and Brighton are apt to merchantability him this summer, arsenic Bart Verbruggen has established himself arsenic the club’s first-choice goalkeeper.

Rushworth is keen to transportation connected playing regular first-team football, but it remains chartless astatine contiguous arsenic to whether helium would favour a power to Newcastle oregon to proceed astatine Coventry nether caput manager Frank Lampard.