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title: "Austin addresses exit rumours"
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# Austin addresses exit rumours

Long-time Newcastle target Charlie Austin has admitted that he will more than likely stay at QPR beyond the January transfer window.

He was continuously linked with a move to Tyneside in the summer, but that never came to fruition with QPR refusing to budge on their £15m asking price.

Austin has found the back of the net seven times so far this season and looks to be the key to QPR’s promotion ambitions.

![David Rogers/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readnewcastle.com/readnewcastle/sites/20/2015/10/481601356.jpg)

Speaking to [Sky Sports](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-transfer-charlie-austin-10340250), the Englishman had this to say:

> I can’t see myself leaving in January, because I’m concentrating on playing for QPR. I think I owe it to them and my loyalty is with them, to help them and try and get promoted.

This may come as a blow for Newcastle, with Austin reportedly on Steve McClaren’s ‘radar’.

However, the likes of Benik Afobe and Pierre-Michel Lasogga remain strong targets for the club, with Papiss Cisse almost certainly on his way out of the club.

![Ian MacNicol/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readnewcastle.com/readnewcastle/sites/20/2015/10/494175630.jpg)

Back in September, Toon boss Steve McClaren addressed the Austin rumours, saying:

> He has been on Newcastle’s radar from the second-half of last season and during the summer – and he will stay on the radar, definitely.

**Would you like to see Austin at Newcastle?**