Newcastle United owners, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, are free to loan the Magpies players this winter.
This follows a Premier League vote in which 13 of the 20 top-flight sides voted against a ban on affiliated clubs doing business with one another in the transfer window. Newcastle are not the only team to have an affiliated outfit, of course, with the likes of Manchester City, Nottingham Forest and Chelsea all having satellite clubs in Europe.
