Wherever Newcastle United find yourself ending on the finish of the 2022/23 marketing campaign, it doesn’t seem that Eddie Howe is resting on his laurels.
An surprising loss at Aston Villa however, the Magpies are nonetheless nicely within the combat to make sure that they’re within the Champions League subsequent season.
Howe will know that his workforce are in all probability brief in a couple of areas in the event that they wish to maintain a sensible European tilt and have an honest Premier League marketing campaign in 2023/24, and in a great world he will certainly wish to have two first rate gamers in each place.
To that finish, it’s believed that he may already be a younger 21-year-old participant that would ultimately change Fabian Schar.
“They’ll signal a centre-half to switch Fabian Schar. However I believe they may go for a youthful one,” switch insider, Graeme Bailey, famous on the Talking Transfers podcast.
“We linked them having been confirmed they’re enthusiastic about (Taylor) Harwood-Bellis, the Burnley defender who’s on mortgage for Man Metropolis.”
It isn’t clear how a lot any potential switch would value, but it surely’s comprehensible why Howe is likely to be sniffing across the Man Metropolis star who has been on mortgage at Burnley this season.
In keeping with WhoScored, Harwood-Bellis has already performed 28 video games of the Clarets season to this point, and his move completion price of 84.8 % is vastly spectacular given his age.
It additionally compares nicely to Schar’s personal 76.9 % success price (per WhoScored) in the identical quantity of video games for Newcastle.
Provided that the teenager additionally has 10 years on Schar, and that Howe seems to take pleasure in working with younger gamers, if Harwood-Bellis is recruited, the chances are he could possibly be given his St. James’ Park bow sooner reasonably than later.
