Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is ready to move quickly in the transfer market to replace West Ham-bound Kieron Dyer before the window closes.
Dyer is close to completing his GBP6million ($A14.4million) move to Upton Park and with the departure of Scott Parker and the injury to new signing Joey Barton, Allardyce is eager to reinforce his midfield.
The Magpies manager has drawn up a list of possible replacements for Dyer that features Fulham and Senegal midfielder Papa Bouba Diop as well as the captain of his former club Bolton, Kevin Nolan.
"My job now is to replace him, which shouldn't take too long I don't think, and then move on to other players in other positions as quickly as I can or at the same time," said Allardyce.
"I think we'll be close by the end of the week to maybe one or two players, I would hope.
"Then after that I would look to get at least another two or maybe three in because if Kieron goes, whoever comes in to replace him, that's only one for one, so it's not actually improving the squad in terms of strength in depth.
"There's still three or four players need to be got on top of whoever we replace Kieron with."