Newcastle United are considering a bid to re-sign Andros Townsend from Crystal Palace.

Manager Rafa Benitez wants to bring players in who can earn promotion and be ready-made for the Premier League to maintain momentum.

The 25-year-old Townsend left for Palace last summer in a £13million deal following Newcastle's relegation and started for Sam Allardyce against West Ham on Saturday.

Newcastle are ready to enquire as to whether Andros Townsend wants to return to Tyneside

However, he has not been a regular starter in Palace's first team and Newcastle will check to see if all parties are receptive to a deal.

Newcastle want a wide player and have considered the likes of Hull City's Sam Clucas, Robert Snodgrass and Tom Cleverley who left Everton for Watford last week.

Clucas, 26, has been in impressive form and Hull are reluctant to lose him in this window.

Newcastle, meanwhile, are understood to have turned down an opportunity to sign Dimitar Berbatov who is a free agent.

The England winger left St James' Park in the summer following Newcastle's relegation