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Newcastle’s ongoing seek for a right-winger must be the longest-running switch saga since new homeowners arrived on Tyneside again in October 2021.
It’s been identified for a while that we want an improve on Miguel Almiron and second choice to compete with Jacoby Murphy, with a variety of names linked within the remaining months of 2024 and opening weeks of 2025.
We missed out on Michael Olise to Bayern final summer time, bid for Nottingham Forest’s Anthony Elanga in August, and have since been linked to the likes of Bryan Mbeumo, Antoine Semenyo, Tyler Dibling and PSV’s Johan Bakayoko.
I’m assured a right-winger will signal this 12 months, whether or not it’s this month or (extra possible) the summer time, however it appears a sure La Liga star gained’t be arriving on Tyneside.
Newcastle have reportedly been provided an opportunity to signal Actual Sociedad’s Takefusa Kubo.
This comes from Craig Hope on the Day by day Mail, who reviews that Newcastle have been approached over the Japanese worldwide’s £50m launch clause, with the participant eager on a transfer to the Premier League.
Nonetheless, a deal for the 23-year-old, who has thus far managed 4 targets in La Liga this season, is regarded as a ‘non-starter’ for Newcastle because of the funds concerned.
Hope writes in his Newcastle Confidential column that Newcastle do have respect for the participant, who’s a former teammate of the in-form Alexander Isak, however reveals that it’s trying more and more possible that Newcastle gamble in gentle of Miguel Almiron’s imminent sale and shelve their pursuit of a right-winger till the summer time
After revealing in the identical piece that Almiron is about to affix Atlanta United in a £10m deal within the coming days, Hope reviews that Newcastle are ‘unlikely’ to switch the right-winger this month.
A large man stays a high precedence and lots of will level to the actual fact fellow winger Harvey Barnes is out for a month with a thigh problem, however it appears Newcastle will take the gamble and preserve their powder dry till the summer time, the place extra funds can be accessible to recruit a top quality right-winger capable of elevate our first-team even additional.
That is undoubtedly a threat, particularly with us competing for a top-four end and in two home cups, however January is a difficult window to signal your high targets at a superb worth.
The likes of Brentford and Bournemouth can be massively reluctant to lose star attackers Mbeumo or Semenyo mid-season, both refusing to promote or quoting whopping charges we’re unable and unwilling to pay for PSR causes.
Whoever arrives as our new right-winger must be the proper participant; the proper character on the proper worth with excessive potential to develop beneath Howe. With that in thoughts, I’d slightly we waited than go early for the unsuitable participant this month, as a lot as we’d love a shiny new signing.
