"With Shay Given suffering a believed groin injury, Toon may seek to recall Krul as added cover with Steve Harper set to step in as new No1."
Shay has indeed suffered an injury and is having a scan, but the whole concern over Krul's loan transfer was that a loan deal must be for six months.
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Sam Allardyce: "The loan system has changed in the Football League this year, and has now converted to the same system we have to put up with, which is only year-long loans.
"You can't do any more emergency loans, or one, two or three-month loans.
"It means if I'm going to let a player go on loan, it's effectively a short-term transfer.
"There's no call-back or recall. And the last thing I want to do is leave myself short if anything happens - we've already got to try and get more players in to cover what we need.
"And to let players go out on loan would be very difficult this year unless the squad grows to the sort of size by the end of the transfer window that I'd feel a young player would develop better by having six months or a year on loan somewhere else.
"If you run into difficulties at the end of August, there's nothing you can do about it but use the players you have within your football club.
"That's why I think the transfer window is flawed."