The former Newcastle United player and coach has urged Rafa Benitez to use his Liverpool and Chelsea connections.
The former Newcastle player and coach warned it could take as many as eight new faces to sufficiently improve the Magpies side which won the Championship last season.
Of those, Carver stated that ‘three or four’ should be ‘game-changing marquee players’, supplemented by ‘three or four foot soldiers’.
Former Newcastle United caretaker boss John Carver
By foot soldiers, the 52-year-old was referring to the likes of Liverpool winger Sheyi Ojo, for whom The Chronicle reported on Thursday that Newcastle are in talks to sign.
But, according to Carver, Liverpool are not the only one of Benitez’s former clubs the Magpies should be looking to for talent.
“Go into this market with Rafa’s experience, with Rafa’s connections in the game at Chelsea, at Liverpool – I know they’ve been linked with the young boy from Liverpool, Ojo,” he told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“You were talking about [Chelsea players, Nathaniel] Chalobah, [Ruben] Loftus-Cheek – why don’t they go on and get two or three of those? That will improve the squad, slowly but surely.”
England’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek celebrates with Chelsea clubmate Nathaniel Chalobah
It is unclear as to whether Liverpool or Chelsea would sanction permanent moves for either of Carver’s suggestions, the problem being that, otherwise, Newcastle are limited to having two Premier League loan players at any given time, and only one of those can be signed from the same club.
Should Newcastle United move for Ojo, Chalobah and Loftus-Cheek? Or are there other Liverpool and Chelsea players the Magpies should target?
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