Chris Wooden to endure medical at Newcastle forward of switch from relegation rivals Burnley and will make debut this weekend towards Watford

Newcastle are poised to make Burnley striker Chris Wooden their second January signing, talkSPORT understands.

Wooden, 30, is to endure a medical at St James Park in preparation for making his Magpies debut at dwelling to Watford on Saturday.

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The striker joined Burnley from Leeds in 2017 and scored 53 Premier League targets in 165 video games for the membership.

Experiences recommend that Wooden has a £20million to £25million launch clause in his contract.

This would depart Sean Dyche’s facet quick up entrance, with the striker netting double determine Premier League targets in every of his 4 seasons with the membership.

To date this season, Wooden has three Premier League targets to his identify in 21 appearances.

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Newcastle boss Eddie Howe is in determined want for attacking reinforcements after Callum Wilson picked up a calf damage, which is able to probably hold him out for a lot of weeks.

Howe mentioned final week: “It’s all depending on who’s accessible and who we are able to recruit as a result of it’s most likely the hardest place at any time of 12 months to recruit in. The standard of gamers in that place could be very quick on the bottom.”

The New Zealand worldwide could be Newcastle’s second signing of the season.

Kieran Trippier was signed by Atletico Madrid and made his debut within the FA Cup defeat to Cambridge.