The 2022 Newcastle signing facing career rebuild as Eddie Howe dream fizzles out

The Magpies paid £300,000 for the Australian youngster back in 2022 during Dan Ashworth's stint as sporting director but the forward, still just 22, joined Sparta Prague last summer for an undisclosed fee. After appearing for Newcastle during the club's tour of Australia in 2024, starring against Spurs in an exhibition game in Melbourne, Kuol did not go on to make a competitive appearance after scoring a penalty in a shoot out win Down Under.

He was sent to Heart of Midlothian and then Volendam in Holland but made only a handful of appearances. Despite making 23 appearances for Sparta, and scoring in the Europa Conference League against Aberdeen last season, he was loaned to Jablonec for the 2026/27 season.

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Last night, Kuol was spotted by UK TV viewers as he came off the bench for his loan club against Brighton and demonstrated the speed and acceleration that attracted Newcastle to him to begin with. Interviewed by TNT Sports' Matt Smith, Kuol was asked about what life is like after Newcastle, and said last night: "It is different, I'd say, a different language.

"But generally speaking, football is football, and it speaks for itself.

"I'm just working hard, trying to develop every day and keep growing every day."

Kuol's Jablonec, who dumped out Glasgow Rangers on penalties in the play-offs of the competition, are currently occupying a play-off place in the Conference League and face Riga in their next game.

On signing Kuol, then boss Eddie Howe said in 2022: "He's very sharp, agile, quick, a good finisher.

"He's got a lot of very positive ingredients. That is going to be nurtured and developed in the next couple of years to get him at the right level for the Premier League.

"I met him for the first time in person yesterday. That was a very good conversation. He is a very confident, independent lad who has got high motivation."

But the move did not work out for either party and Kuol continues to rebuild his career after his release from the Magpies last year.

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