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Andrew Musgrove

How the Newcastle United squad will look now the January transfer window is shut

The January transfer window has finished with Newcastle United bringing in three new players as the month drew to a close.

There were no permanent cash signings and the new trio of Valentino Lazaro, Nabil Bentaleb and Danny Rose arrived on loan.

Lazaro and Bentaleb - who both out of favour at their respective parent clubs of Inter Milan and FC Schalke - do have options to sign in the summer.

But what does the squad look like? Newcastle had to make room for their three new signings, and did so by terminating Ki Sung-Yeung's contract on deadline day, and removing Jetro Willems and Paul Dummett, both who are injured, from the squad.

Willems has returned to Frankfurt and undergone surgery and sustaining a knee injury against Chelsea early in January.

Each Premier League side had to register a squad of 25 men, of which only 17 or less could be deemed not to meet the 'home grown player' criteria.

The rest of the squad is to be made up of home grown players.

Each club is then allow a list of U21 players who could play and come outside of the 25-man squad - interestingly Matty Longstaff still appears on this list.

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