From trophies at Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal to careers in management and punditry - where are Newcastle United’s 11 record departures now

Newcastle United currently have a full 25-man squad for the Premier League, meaning any incomings in January must be balanced out by players leaving the club.

Assuming they will be active in the January market, and all reports suggest they will be in order to try and avoid the drop, then there may be a few players that leave St James’s Park this winter.

It could be a time of great upheaval at Newcastle but, like any club, they have had to deal with squad changes in the past.

So what has happened to the players that left Newcastle United for large sums of money?

Here, we have listed the 11 players that left Tyneside for the highest transfer fees and have detailed how their career progressed, or stagnated, after leaving St James’s Park:

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