Italy coach Roberto Mancini is being backed for the Newcastle United manager's job.

That's the call from former Manchester City attacker Trevor Sinclair.

Speaking on talkSPORT, Sinclair said: "I think you need a manager who has done this before – and the first name which springs to mind for me is Roberto Mancini.

"But I don't know whether it's too soon with his reign with Italy and whether he would walk away from that. He's done it at Man City, you've got to bring in big players to set new players, Mancini would be the ideal man to do it, he's still young enough to do it.

"They would be wise to look at the Man City model and the way they've done it, because they've been so successful.

"Take away the Champions League and they've won everything."