Rolando Aarons is set to be the first Newcastle United player to leave in the January transfer window with Huddersfield Town close to signing the winger.
Newcastle boss Steve Bruce needs to create space and raise funds in the transfer window, with four players picking up senior player wages despite not even being included in the Premier League team squad.
Aarons is one but Henri Saivet, Christian Atsu and Achraf Lazaar are costing the club a six figure sum every week despite all having been exiled from the first team.
Wage demands have torpedoed efforts to move them on while Lazaar has said he is also looking for a new club.
Newcastle have circulated all of their names in a bid to find them a new club in January but Aarons, who was close to leaving for the Terriers back in the summer, will be the first to move on.
It's understood talks are at an advanced stage to revive a deal which only fell through in the final moments of the summer transfer window.
Terriers chairman Phil Hodgkinson said Aarons was the club's "top target": "Unfortunately we couldn’t get it done (in September) and that’s life and it happens, but we still are confident that he’s the right player, so rather than bringing someone in at the last minute or bringing in someone else…he’s our top target, he remains so, and what we’d rather do is get through the next 10 weeks to January and get it done then rather than bring in somebody that maybe doesn’t tick all the boxes Rolando did."
