JOHN CARVER does not think Tim Krul wants to leave Newcastle United this summer after another frustrating campaign on Tyneside.

Krul has been linked with a move to a number of clubs over the last few months including Crystal Palace, despite Alan Pardew’s claims that he is not interested in the £10m-rated keeper.

The 27-year-old has been inconsistent in a team which has not provided much cover for him this season but he remains one of the best shot-stoppers in the Premier League.

It has been widely reported that Krul has changed his agent since the turn of the year and that has fuelled suggestions he is looking for a way out of the club he joined as a youngster in 2006.

Carver said: "I wasn’t aware he’d changed his agent, but it happens all the time. If your contract’s up with somebody you’re entitled to do what you want to do.

"Everybody has their reasons why they do something. Let’s be honest, I’m not being funny here, but I think I’ve got more to worry about than people changing their agents.

“I can’t advise them, it’s not for me to advise who looks after their business. I don’t know anything about their business, so people are entitled to do what they want to do. It happens all the time.”

Newcastle’s horrible form has increased relegation worries ahead of today’s trip to Leicester City and it has also fuelled the belief that many of the club’s players could leaver.

Given how Newcastle are still five points clear of the bottom three, the threat of dropping in to the Championship does not appear to have hit home with many members of the squad so far.

And last week former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer was critical of the players’ performances, suggesting many of them don’t care as much as the head coach.

Carver said: "Well Alan loved the club when he was here so he’s in the same thought (process). He’s from here so I can understand why he’s saying that.

"But you’d be surprised how there’s a lot of people in the dressing room hurting. You know, there is. In football there’s always people who don’t care, and it’s usually the ones who won’t have a future at that football club. They’ll move to another football club and be nice and bright until they’re out of the mix.

"Everybody’s the same but I think there are people who care. I can’t even go into detail of who doesn’t care, because they all have their own minds. But the only way they can show that, and stop Alan from saying that, is by doing it on the pitch.”

Shearer is merely one of a number of ex-players to have accused Newcastle’s stars of downing tools during the seven-match losing streak.

Carver said: “It is easy to set things up on a board. But it is not real time. It is not reacting to real time situations.

“I have seen coaches on pro licences who are great with a board in front of them and the dobbers moving. As soon as they get out on the pitch and they have got to do it with players, with awkward players or with players who are sulking because they are not in the team, that is a different kettle of fish.

“Everything we do is about intensity and closing down and pressing people. In the first half against Swansea, we played in their half, we pressed the ball and that’s how we played.

"The one thing you expect, at least, as a given, is the workrate and people going from the first minute to the 90th minute. But maybe one or two who were in that group couldn’t handle the 90 minutes, at that intensity in the Premier League, so that keeps your mind open a little bit.”