Shola Ameobi has now failed to get a deal at his fourth club after a trial, though the reason won’t improve the striker’s confidence…

Neil Lennon has said he is confident that the Championship club can meet Shola Ameobi’s wage demands if the players shows his ‘pedigree’.

Forster has been on-loan at Celtic for the past two years, and following the Magpies’ signing of Rob Elliot last summer it looks as though he may be heading through the exit door.