TalkSPORT: Newcastle and Spurs contemplating January transfer for former Chelsea expertise

Newcastle proceed to be linked with centre-backs, with rumours rife now the January window has formally opened. 

We glance set to make changes to our defensive setup both this month or within the coming summer time after failing to return to an settlement with Crystal Palace for Marc Guehi final yr.

Paul Mitchell seemingly has a number of centre-backs on his radar if stories are to be believed, with the identical hyperlinks persevering with to flow into.

Based on talkSPORT, Newcastle and Tottenham may go face to face in pursuit of AC Milan’s Fikayo Tomori.

The previous Chelsea defender fell out of favour with lately sacked Milan supervisor Paulo Fonseca, making simply six Serie A begins this season and being restricted to couple of minutes off the bench since early October.

TalkSPORT report that ourselves and Spurs are each contemplating strikes for the 27-year-old, with West Ham and Brentford additionally eager and conscious of his availability.

The Spurs hyperlinks make sense contemplating their makeshift defence that has shipped objectives since accidents to Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero is in want of reinforcement, and I might think about that to be the extra seemingly vacation spot for Tomori.

Regardless of his lack of minutes in Italy this season, Tomori continues to be a greater than succesful centre-back, however I’m not satisfied he could be the form of signing we pursue this month. 

The profile of our latest signings – significantly in defence with Tino Livramento, Sven Botman and Lewis Corridor – have all been younger and I might think about that could be a pattern that may proceed if we’re to recruit a centre-back. 

There are a number of getting old gamers within the Magpies defensive setup with Fabian Schar, Dan Burn, Kieran Trippier, Jamaal Lascelles and Emil Krafth all of their 30s, and it’s been urged that one in all Paul Mitchell’s key duties is to decrease the typical age of our squad.

This may clarify robust hyperlinks to Lens’ 20-year-old star Abdukodir Khusanov, making a transfer for Tomori seem much less seemingly as a long-term substitute to Fabian Schar.