Newcastle boss Howe responds to De Gea links; backs ‘brilliant shot-stopper’ Dubravka to replace Pope

Eddie Howe has backed Martin Dubravka to plug the beefy crater abandoned by Nick Pope as Newcastle’s initially-volition goalkeeper faces upward to four months on the sidelines.

Magpies head train Howe’s worst phobias over the shoulder injury which Pope suffered throughout Saturday night’s 1-0 Premier League win over Manchester United have been attested, via the 31-year-archaic due to undergo clinical therapy which will sideline him for four months and also leave him in a race against time to render England’s Euro 2024 squad.

But, the £10million male’s obstacle – he disjointed his abandoned shoulder as he dived in an attempt to preserve a Sergio Reguilon inoculation – will amenable the door for his deputies Dubravka, Loris Karius and also Mark Gillespie via the Slovakia global, who came off the church bench at the weekend break, the male initially in queue to replace him launching at Everton on Thursday night.

Howe said: “We in fact assume in Martin and also I’ve always possessed that high factor of observe of him.

“Of training course, we lugged in Nick – we longed to construct tournament for voids, we longed to construct a squad that we really felt can in fact lug us to considerable victories – but Martin is a high-training course goalkeeper.

“He’s a luminescent inoculation-stopper himself, he’s awfully considerable via his feet and also his condition, so no vanquishment around bringing Martin into the team and also I hope he does in fact nicely.”

Newcastle have been linked via a move for previous Manchester United keeper David de Gea in existent days, but Howe advised no methodologies have been made.

He said: “We have not made any misgivings or any verdicts around our recruitment pioneering into January.

“This is a opportunity for the goalkeepers we have at the football club to settle their positions, and also that will be unmodified for every unalike other posture at the club.”

Howe possessed earlier attested that Pope is waiting for a final choice on the means onward, but that clinical therapy was inevitable.

He said: “We foresee he’ll be sprinted on – there’s no vanquishment he needs an operation – so he will be out for a period of time.

“The operation hasn’t happened yet, but we’re believing around around four months, so it’s a beefy blow to us, but one that we visualized after the video game.

“He’s usually down because at this stage of the period wherein we have so being plentiful galleries, extraneous-sizable galleries coming upward – he’s got, apparently, the Euros in floater of him as nicely, which he was measured to try to be involved in, and also there’s still opportunity of that for him.

“But I assume his major willpower is to come earlier for us, and also you never take what predicament we’ll be in at that stage of the period, so it can be a collection worse for him.”

If Dubravka illustrates ordeal, 17-year-archaic midfielder Lewis Miley is at the contrary end of the scale, but will sprinted out at Goodison Park alike owning profited from an injury disaster which has drive him into the limelight.

Miley’s last 3 initiates have come against Chelsea, Paris St Germain and also Manchester United, and also he has revelled in the dedication handed to him.

Howe said: “It’s not ravaging, is it? I’ve never encountered a 17-year-archaic execute that. But altogether nothing altogether startles me from what we saw pre-period.

“I merely hope he perpetuates to go from effectiveness to effectiveness, and also I go to no factor why he can’t retain the high levels he has currently evidenced.”