Just seems to be a matter of when. The following is on the Chronicle website today
"Concerningly for the Magpies, there is scope for their injury problems to get worse as they monitor an old injury sustained by Elliot last season.
With Karl Darlow out injured for another month with an ankle problem, Newcastle are keeping a close eye on Elliot’s thigh after he picked up an injury last December which required surgery.
Elliot broke down with the problem again in April, and Newcastle know they are just one more injury setback away from a goalkeeping crisis."
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-set-offered-french-international-10260011
It's 2015 and Rob Elliot is about to be our goalkeeper for the foreseeable future. If that's not a goalkeeping crisis then I don't know what is.