Newcastle United's head coach Steve Bruce gestures from the sidelines during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa at St James's Park.Newcastle United's head coach Steve Bruce gestures from the sidelines during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa at St James's Park.
Newcastle United's head coach Steve Bruce gestures from the sidelines during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa at St James's Park.

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Newcastle rescued a late point against Aston Villa in their last Premier League fixture.

Indeed, Magpies fans could be back inside St James’s Park before the end of the season.

The Premier League is planning for the return of supporters for the final two rounds of matches this season, according to chief executive Richard Masters.

Up to 10,000 supporters will be allowed back inside stadiums from May 17 under the proposed roadmap out of coronavirus lockdown published by last month.

However, the ensure competitive balance, there are plans to move the penultimate round of games, scheduled for the third weekend of May, to May 18-20, meaning some Newcastle supporters could be back inside St James’s Park, which last hosted fans on February 29 last year, for the home game against Sheffield United.

"Hopefully the final two fixtures of our season will have up to 10,000 supporters in them all," said Masters. "We've got to go past those first initial steps in the government's roadmap to get there, so hopefully that’ll be a fantastic finale to end the season."

And hos hoping fora tactical change from Steve Bruce may be left disappointed.

“We’ve played a certain way for the past six or seven weeks now,” said United’s head coach.

"I spoke briefly on it last week, and said we didn’t want to change the shape – or the way we’ve gone about it.

But, as always, there is still plenty of transfer talk swirling around the internet this morning...

Here, we take a look at the rest of the transfer talk Newcastle United’s top-flight rivals: