Former Wanderers midfielder Liam Bridcutt has taken up a coaching role at Newcastle United.

Bridcutt is one of a number of additions to the Magpies’ Academy set-up and will work as a “sessional coach” to help the club’s young talent.

The 35-year-old moves into coaching after a year without a club since his exit from Blackpool at the end of the 2022/23 campaign.

He has plenty of experience in the game, having racked up 368 appearances including spells in the Premier League.

Bridcutt started out at Chelsea and had loan spells at Yeovil, Watford and Stockport before heading to Brighton in the summer of 2010.

The midfielder went on to play more than 150 times for the Seagulls over the next three-and-a-half-years before he was snapped up by Sunderland.

He also had stints at Leeds and Nottingham Forest before heading to Wanderers on loan for the first half of the 2019/20 campaign, making 12 appearances under Keith Hill.

Bridcutt joined Lincoln for the second half of the season but only played five times before the league was cut short by the pandemic.

He returned to Sincil Bank on a permanent deal the following summer and spent the next couple of years with the Imps before heading to Blackpool in 2022.

Paul Barron also arrives as a sessional coach in Newcastle’s Academy alongside Bridcutt.

Barron was a goalkeeper for the Magpies between 2007 and 2010, working under Sam Allardyce, Kevin Keegan, Alan Shearer and Chris Hughton.

Newcastle finished seventh in the Premier League last season and have had a positive start to the new campaign, taking seven points from their opening three matches.

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