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Newcastle fans react to Rolando Aarons joining Motherwell on loan

Dom Toner
Dom Toner

Newcastle United’s Rolando Aarons has completed a loan move to Scottish Premiership team Motherwell until the end of the season – and some of the club’s supporters on Twitter have insisted he should be have been sold instead.

The Magpies confirmed () on Friday’s deadline day that the 24-year-old made the switch to Motherwell in time before the January transfer window shut.

He spent the first half of the campaign out on loan with League One club Wycombe Wanderers, where he managed two goals in 13 appearances for them.

The attacker has now joined his fifth different team for a loan spell away from St James’ Park and it’s clear he’s fallen extremely far down the pecking order.

Aarons managed to make a breakthrough into the Newcastle first-team as a youngster and played 27 senior games for them, but the last couple of years he’s been shipped out on several loans.

The left-winger has been unable to rediscover any kind of form during spells with Hellas Verona, Slovan Liberec, Sheffield Wednesday and Wycombe Wanderers.

He will be hoping his move to Scotland’s top-flight can be a positive one for him and it feels like last chance saloon to try impress Newcastle.

(Photo by Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC via Getty Images)

A selection Newcastle supporters on social media believe that the path to their first-team is blocked for the rapid attacker and wish he had been sold rather than loaned out again.

Here are some Newcastle and on the Aarons loan exit: