He said: "If new players are coming in and you are worried about that then you should not be here. You should want good players at this football club."

Keegan dropped the bombshell to his Toon squad at training yesterday.

A Newcastle insider told The Sun: "It wasn't like a big speech by the manager or anything but it sounded like he would be making a few changes.

"With only a couple of weeks left in the transfer window, he has not really got time to assess what is already there. He has to make some quick decisions."