Steve Bruce explains what happened with Newcastle United's move for Rob Holding
The club had been keen to sign Rob Holding on loan from Arsenal before Mikel Arteta blocked a move for the 25-year-old.
Bruce yesterday revealed that he doesn’t expect Newcastle to be busy before Monday’s transfer deadline following the £15million acquisition of Callum Wilson and the arrival of three free agents, Ryan Fraser, Jeff Hendrick and Mark Gillespie.
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Hide AdUnited’s head coach is hopeful his injury problems will ease during the international break which follows tonight’s home Premier League game against Burnley.
Fabian Schar – who dislocated his shoulder against Tottenham Hotspur late last season – returned in the midweek Carabao Cup win over Newport County.
“We have had a big problem with Ciaran (Clark) and (Paul) Dummett, because they’ve been long term, and there’s been Fab Schar out too,” said Bruce.
“At the time, I was thinking that we could have done with a bit of cover there.
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Hide Ad"But Fab Schar came back much quicker than I thought he would, and we’re hoping that Ciaran and Dummett will be back into training after the international break, in that week leading up to the Man U game.
“That changes things a bit. If something as good as Rob Holding came along, we would have a look, but in terms of that one, it’s changed now because he’s in the Arsenal team. That situation has gone away – fair play to him.”