Newcastle United have seven games to change the complexion of their Premier League season as the disappointment of last month's derby defeat to Sunderland still lingers.

After exiting the FA Cup and the Champions League, Newcastle find themselves in 12th place in the Premier League table and are facing an uphill battle to end the season strongly and qualify for European football next term.

Regardless of how the season ends, though, it feels like this summer will be a reboot for a squad that has achieved so much in the last four-and-a-half years.

That will inevitably mean the club's transfer business will ramp up, both in terms of incomings and outgoings, and with that in mind we have rounded up the latest transfer rumours surrounding Newcastle.

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Newcastle have moved a step closer to securing the signature of highly rated teenage forward Johan Martinez from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle.

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