The previous Newcastle goalkeeper believes that Eddie Howe doesn’t must look far to search out Nick Pope’s alternative.
The English goalkeeper dislocated his shoulder throughout his facet’s 1-0 win in opposition to Manchester United final weekend after diving to save lots of a shot.
The Newcastle supervisor then revealed earlier this week that Pope could be out for a minimum of ‘4 months’ and has to endure surgical procedure on the shoulder.
This has sparked a number of switch rumours a few potential alternative for the English goalkeeper with the names of Aaron Ramsdale and Davi de Gea circulating.
However in line with former Newcastle goalkeeper, Rob Elliot, Pope’s alternative is already on the membership within the type of Martin Dubravka.
“Martin ticks the entire containers for me,” he advised NewcastleWorld.
“Sure, Popey has been completely large since he got here in. However once you’ve bought somebody like Martin there, he’s right here for that reason.”
The Slovakian worldwide has been on the membership since 2018 and spent six months of final season on mortgage at Manchester United.
However failed to essentially push himself into both facet when given the chance, with the damage to Pope this may very well be the proper probability to come back into the group and impress.