One-club man Paul Dummett will leave Newcastle United at the end of the season

Newcastle United academy product Paul Dummett will call time on his Toon adventure at the end of this season.

According to journalist Joel Bland Paul Dummett will leave the club in the summer after the former Wales international took a pay cut to stay on at Newcastle for another season. However, with game time limited this season, the 32-year-old will move on from the club he's been with since he was a boy.

Playing mostly as a left-back, Paul Dummett has so far made 209 appearances for Newcastle in all competitions, scoring four goals and providing one assist along the way. Later in his career, Dummett moved across to centre-back which actually seemed to suit him better.

Paul Dummett was an international footballer

Geordie Dummett qualified to play for Wales through his Welsh grandfather and made four appearances for the Red Dragons at Under-21 level and five senior appearances.

Bland says that Dummett will not be offered a new deal at the end of the season which suggests that this decision has been taken out of the player's hands.

As great a servant as Dummett has been to the club, when you realise that those 209 appearances have come over a 14-year period, you notice how little he's actually been used over that time. As much as he loves the club and Eddie Howe liked having the local lads around in the dressing room, he is essentially just burning the club's money.

Eddie Howe is finally being ruthless rather than sentimental

If Newcastle are to progress along their path to breaking into that gated "big six" then Howe needs to start being more ruthless and letting players go who are just taking up squad space without really contributing anything.

We currently have too many players on the books who simply aren't good enough for where we are aiming to be and paying their wages is adding more pressure to the already tight FFP restrictions.

As sad as it will be to see Dummy go, it's a necessary evil. To be fair, we wouldn't be at all surprised if he made his way back to the club in a coaching capacity or some other staff role much like Shola Ameobi did.