Kalvin Phillips has been given the green light to join Newcastle United (AP)
Manchester City will allow Kalvin Phillips to join Newcastle United on loan in the January transfer window, according to reports.
Phillips has been unable to secure a regular role at City since arriving in a £45 million deal from Leeds United last year.
The 28-year-old has now been warned by Gareth Southgate that his place in England’s squad for Euro 2024 is at risk if he fails to secure regular first-team football before the season is over.
Juventus have already expressed an interest in signing Phillips next month but Newcastle are also interested in the City midfielder to bolster Eddie Howe’s options.
According to talkSPORT, City will not stand in Phillips’ way if Newcastle are able to reach an agreement in the January window.
Earlier this week, reports claimed that Newcastle are ‘confident’ of agreeing a deal with the Premier League champions for Phillips.
Kalvin Phillips (MB Media/Getty)
Meanwhile Howe admitted after Newcastle’s 3-1 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day that his side have struggled due to multiple injuries.
‘Whenever you lose games it is an uncomfortable feeling, when your team is not at its peak,’ Howe said.
‘You deal with a lot of emotions when you don’t get the result you want. I am feeling that. I like to keep my thoughts and analyse properly and make tweaks and changes.
‘My gut feeling is that the answer lies within. The players we have are good enough. We have suffered those injuries. We have not had it easy. We are not at our best physically.
‘We were not quite at our best and when you are not you get punished. There was a lot of good first half but the last action or pass was missing and that was frustrating. We wanted to make it 2-0 and in a commanding position.
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‘It has been an intense period. The players have physically given everything and we have acknowledged we have not been at our best and that is all we can do. We can now return to the training pitch for the first time in what feels like months. We need training ground time to refine missing parts of our game.
‘Some of our decision making was off, positioning or technically. It wasn’t a big tactical issue, we didn’t deal with moments in the game.
‘I’ll be prepared to make any change that I think can benefit either the performance or the result and of course players are accountable for what they deliver.
‘No amount of credit in the bank is big enough, you have to earn everything you get from the game. I’m a firm believer in that so players know they have to perform and we have to change our short-term form for sure.
‘It will be nice to build up to games and training. I think we have suffered not having training ground time. And the inability to rotate the team has caught up with us.’
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