Newcastle could strike gold with McArthur

Newcastle United’s sporting director Dan Ashworth made a lot of strikes in the course of the summer time switch window in an try to enhance Eddie Howe’s staff.

Alexander Isak, Matt Targett, Nick Pope, and Sven Botman all got here by the door on everlasting offers with a view to giving the membership a greater probability of climbing the Premier League desk.

Nevertheless, the Magpies chief additionally dipped into the market to develop the academy facet at St. James’ Park, bringing in recent younger expertise to the U23 and U18 squads.

This gives Howe with a wealth of expertise at his disposal to name upon within the years to come back, with the rise of Elliot Anderson into the first-team fold this season being proof of his willingness to present children an opportunity.

One participant he snapped up was Scottish central defender Charlie McArthur who joined from Scottish Premiership facet Kilmarnock for a price of simply £350k on a three-year deal.

Tommy Wright, who was his first-team supervisor in Scotland, beforehand heaped reward on the teenager, saying: “The most important praise I pays Charlie is that the lads deal with him like a 26-year-old.

“Since I’ve been in right here, he’s educated all pre-season with us, we checked out him final season and he’s a dream to work with. I don’t wish to stick labels on how good he’s however he’s very, superb and may have an incredible profession.”

Journalist Mike McGrath described him as a “huge prospect” on the time and this, together with Wright’s feedback, means that the centre-back is seen as a participant with the potential to make an affect at senior stage sooner or later.

Regardless of solely turning 17 in Could of this 12 months, McArthur performed four first-team matches for Kilmarnock – together with as soon as within the league – previous to arriving in England. He was deemed ok for aggressive, senior motion at such a younger age and this means that he has a powerful mentality because the teaching workers believed that he may deal with it.

The gem has additionally been capped ten instances by Scotland at U17 stage and is the captain for his nation at that age group, which exhibits how extremely rated he’s on the worldwide scene and that he has management qualities.

It’s now all the way down to the centre-back to show to Howe that he has the maturity and high quality to step as much as the Premier League sooner or later, whether or not that comes this season, subsequent time period, or in a marketing campaign additional down the road.

If he can try this, because the hype round him means that he has the potential to take action, then the Magpies boss may strike gold by unearthing his expertise within the English top-flight – turning him right into a first-team participant value excess of the £350k spent to signal him.