Steve Bruce comments on Ciaran Clark’s Newcastle United future

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Newcastle United defender Ciaran Clark has been linked with a move to Crystal Palace.

Steve Bruce has admitted to the Chronicle that he’s had to have a ‘quiet word’ with Ciaran Clark about his Newcastle United future.

Clark has beed linked with a move away from Newcastle in the past few days, with The Sun suggesting that Crystal Palace were keen on buying him for £5 million.

However, Bruce does not want to sell the centre-back, even though he is likely to be a covering option at St. James’ Park again next season.

“The way we are with the injury to Lejeune and playing with three centre backs, if I let something happen to Ciaran Clark, we’d leave ourselves a bit short,” he said.

“I can’t really do that… I’ve had a quiet word with him and we move on.”

Clark has struggled to break into Newcastle’s team recently, as they have so much quality at centre-back.

Clark appears to be behind Fabian Schar, Jamaal Lascelles, Florian Lejeune and Federico Fernandez in the pecking order for places at St. James’ Park.

Clark didn’t play a part for Newcastle yesterday in their friendly against Hibernian, although he did travel to Scotland with the rest of their squad.

Newcastle won the contest 3-1, with goals coming from Joelinton, Lascelles and Sean Longstaff.