Newcastle: Taylor-Cooke could be Nolan 2.0

Newcastle United dipped into the switch market throughout the summer season window to bolster Eddie Howe’s squad for the 2022/23 marketing campaign.

The Magpies introduced in Sven Botman, Matt Targett, Nick Pope, and Alexander Isak on everlasting offers, while Loris Karius arrived on a free switch after the window slammed shut to supply goalkeeping back-up.

This got here after PIF invested within the workforce in January to herald Bruno Guimaraes, Chris Wooden, Dan Burn, and Kieran Trippier after taking on the membership from Mike Ashley.

While snapping up new gamers in multi-million offers will be thrilling for supporters, Howe has proven that he can add to the squad with out wanting exterior of Tyneside.

19-year-old wizard Elliot Anderson has been drafted into the first-team this season and has made three Premier League appearances to this point this time period, after spending the second half of final season on mortgage at Bristol Rovers.

The academy is one other manner by which the top coach can enhance his workforce as he can unearth new abilities by giving younger gamers an opportunity to impress within the senior squad.

Newcastle have various gifted gems of their youth set-up and so they might have their new Kevin Nolan in 18-year-old dynamo Jay Taylor-Cooke.

Nolan loved an outstanding time with the Magpies between 2009 and 2011 as he proved himself to be an enormous goalscoring menace from central midfield. He produced 30 targets and nine assists in 91 appearances for the membership in all competitions, which equates to a purpose each 3.03 matches.

Taylor-Cooke is an analogous participant within the sense that he’s a central midfielder, who can play as a ten or an eight, who has the standard to persistently rating targets.

Journalist Chris Knight as soon as dubbed him “classy” and Howe beforehand hailed the teenager after he was on the bench for a Premier League match final time period, saying:

“His position in the present day was to see and expertise Manchester Metropolis and see an away recreation expertise at top-of-the-line groups on this planet. It’ll have completed him the world of fine to see it from afar and take all of it in. I believe he’s an actual expertise and is a participant with superb technical capability.”

This exhibits that he’s already across the fringes of the primary workforce and his type at youth stage means that he has the potential to make the step up.

He has scored 16 targets and offered eight assists in 43 outings for Newcastle at U18 and U21 stage mixed, which works out as a purpose each 2.68 video games.

Taylor-Cooke, like Nolan, is able to offering a constant goalscoring presence from a central place in midfield, whether or not that’s in a deeper position or simply behind a striker.

Due to this fact, Howe might unearth the membership’s new model of the ex-Bolton and West Ham purpose machine by unleashing the previous Sunderland teenager, whether or not that comes this season or sooner or later, if he is ready to deal with the step as much as senior soccer.