Kuni .G. Isaac

Newcastle takes in their latest recruit, Nick Pope England goalkeeper from Burnley in a deal worth an informed £10 million on Thursday.

Pope arranged a four-year contract with Eddie Howe’s team post-passing a medical on Tyneside.

Pope, 30 holds eight England caps, well-known as one of his country’s top keepers during 141 league appearances for the Clarets.

Newcastle made their way to Pope after Burnley faced relegation at Championship last season.

“Now I’m here, I can’t wait to get started,” Pope said excited for a new chase of adventure in a new team.

“The deal has taken a couple of weeks to come to fruition, but it got over the line really quickly and I’m delighted to be here and I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into it.”

Pope will be expected to provide and unbendable competition record for Martin Dubravka who happens to be the first choice keeper for new castle.

He kept nine Premier League clean sheets last season unfortunately he was behind the goal post in preventing Burnley from slipping out of the top-flight.

Pope’s swift return to the Premier League improves his chances of making Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the World Cup in Qatar in November.

“Nick is an exceptional Premier League and international level goalkeeper, so I’m very pleased to be adding strong competition to a very important position,” Howe said.

“There has been a lot of interest in him from other clubs this summer, so I’d like to thank our owners and everyone behind the scenes for getting us ahead of the competition.”

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