Steve Nickson travels to see £50m winger with summer time transfer in thoughts – Report

It seems like Newcastle United’s Head of Recruitment Steve Nickson has been a busy man this week.

Paul Mitchell could also be calling a lot of the pictures now as our sporting director, however chief scout Nickson has a wonderful recruitment report on Tyneside, serving to convey the likes of Bruno Guimaraes, Alexander Isak and Sven Botman to the membership.

With a brand new right-winger nonetheless excessive on our agenda, whether or not that be for January or the summer time, a brand new report has revealed a Premier League star Nickson went to observe in individual this week.

In response to Lee Ryder at The Chronicle, Nickson was in attendance at Brentford’s Gtech Stadium to observe Bryan Mbeumo’s facet draw 2-2 with Manchester Metropolis on Tuesday. 

Ryder goes on to state {that a} £50m asking value has been slapped on the Cameroonian winger, though it appears clear that he’s one for the summer time and going nowhere in what stays of January.

Nickson travelling to see Mbeumo in individual is a hopeful sign of intent forward of this summer time, when our PSR woes must be eased considerably; particularly if we choose to maintain our powder dry this month and safe Champions League soccer. 

Mbeumo didn’t contribute to both aim in Brentford’s late comeback as they continued their wonderful dwelling kind towards Pep Guardiola’s facet, although he did contribute 5 key passes over the 90 minutes. 

His capacity isn’t in query with 16 Premier League aim contributions already this season – three of these coming the sport prior towards Southampton, and two towards us after we went to London in December together with an eighth minute opener.

Talking after Brentford’s 2-2 draw with Man Metropolis this week, Thomas Frank dominated out a January exit for the winger, saying: “No. So, very straightforward to reply that query!”

Frank, nevertheless, has beforehand accepted that he expects the winger to go at some stage and adopted an identical strategy when star man Ivan Toney appeared to go away final yr. Competitors for Mbeumo’s signature will probably be robust with Arsenal additionally mentioned to have an interest.

At £50m it could be a battle value having. The payment represents nice worth given the winger is within the early levels of his bodily prime, a flexible two-footed ahead in addition to Premier League confirmed.