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Newcastle manager Graeme Souness has admitted that he is on the lookout for another central defender.
Souness has seen his hand forced by the freak training ground injury to Titus Bramble, who has been ruled out for up to three months with a broken right elbow.
After the summer departures of Aaron Hughes and Andy O'Brien, Bramble was set to line up alongside Jean-Alain Boumsong as the centre defensive pairing at St. James' Park this season.
Now Souness must find suitable cover, or put his trust in rookie centre backs Steven Taylor and Peter Ramage.
"As we speak now, we feel that we are one experienced central defender short," admitted Souness.
"With Stephen Carr, both Peter Ramage and Steven Taylor could do a job there (at right back), both Ramage and Taylor could do a job at centre back and we have got Celestine Babayaro at left back and we have got Robbie Elliott to cover him.
"I would like one more experienced centre back because if you look at Titus at 23, Jean-Alain Boumsong at 25, Taylor at 19 and Ramage at 21, we do not have a lot of experience in a very important position.
"Finances allowing, I would like to bring another experienced centre half in."
