Hammers reveal Ashby to Newcastle facts

By Dave Langton

Harrison Ashby is currently very unlikely to join Newcastle.

Sources have told C&H that any deal for the right-back is very difficult for the Magpies to achieve.

He only has one year left on his contract at the London Stadium but manager David Moyes is loathe to lose such a useful squad player at such a late point in the transfer window.

Ashby has struggled for a first-team breakthrough at West Ham but he is the reserve right-back, behind both Vlad Coufal and Ben Johnson.

The difficulty in sourcing a replacement so late in the window makes any deal very unlikely, although Newcastle do have a big budget, and could make a very tempting offer in the final hours of the window.

Still, at this stage of the day, Ashby is more likely to be remaining at the London Stadium than moving up north to the Magpies.

January, of course, may be a different story.