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Newcastle Alan Pardew wants a new striker and has admitted he is keen on Loic Remy and Darren Bent.

The Magpies boss is preparing a player-plus-cash deal for QPR’s French striker Remy.

Pardew is willing to sacrifice centre-half Steven Taylor and pay around £6million to Rangers for the hot shot who tried but failed to keep them up.

Meanwhile, Bent has been deemed surplus to requirements at Villa and Pardew wants to take a chance on the man the Villans once paid £18m for.

He told The Journal: "Both of those players are on our list. I make no bones about that.

"But they are under contract at other clubs. It's difficult, you have to be careful. It's nice for our fans to hear names, but I don't want to disrupt other clubs' preparations.

"We have a list of four or five strikers who will push [Papiss] Cisse, Shola [Ameobi], Adam Campbell and Yoan Gouffran because that will be important next season.

"We do need two strikers. Last year, I didn't think there was enough competition in that area for a Premier League team."

The Toon want Remy as their new No.1, fitting in with their French dressing room, and made the official move after failing to land Arouna Kone who joined Everton from Wigan.

Remy is willing to go to Tyneside and Harry Redknapp will sell, but is demanding England hopeful defender Taylor in the deal.

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Taylor would have to drop to the Championship but he can pick up a lucrative contract - and fill the gap left by Chris Samba who rejoined his previous club Anzhi.

Pardew told Taylor he could leave and now the clubs are trying to hammer out all of the small details.

French international Remy wants to stay in the Premier League so soon after crossing the Channel and should accept the move.

And Taylor knows that he is part of the exchange, telling him that he would not be guaranteed a game at Newcastle next season.

Local lad and crowd favourite Taylor is likely to go too as one of the summer’s biggest swaps waits to go through.