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It’s been broadly reported that Paul Mitchell is eager to vary Newcastle United’s recruitment technique in mild of PSR and the challenges we’re dealing with.
After final August’s Marc Guehi saga, our sporting director hinted that we needed to widen our seek for high expertise and may’t afford to usually pay a premium for confirmed Premier League expertise.
With that in thoughts, it’s no shock to listen to Newcastle scouts are taking a detailed take a look at the French market; a spot we’ve shopped beforehand for Sven Botman (Lille) and Bruno Guimaraes (Lyon), together with various cut-price gems signed throughout Graham Carr’s time on Tyneside.
Hyperlinks with Lille’s Jonathan David have been fairly fixed over the previous six months, however it appears there are two extra Ligue 1 abilities being tracked by Toon scouts.
Monaco duo Eliesse Ben Seghir and Maghnes Akliouche are each regarded as on the membership’s radar, with The Chronicle revealing that membership officers have travelled to France on a number of events this season to look at potential targets.
Ben Seghir is a 19-year-old left-sided attacker, whereas Akliouche, 22, is a right-sided winger who lately starred on the Olympics for France. Given his earlier function at Monaco and emphasis on bringing via youth stars, Mitchell shall be properly conscious of each.
The report additionally states that members of our recruitment crew have been hosted by Monaco, Lille and RC Lens this season throughout current scouting missions.
Our go to to Lens is prone to have centred round Abdukodir Khusanov – now at Man Metropolis – whereas Jonathan David and Icelandic expertise Hákon Arnar Haraldsson can be being tracked, based on The Mail’s Craig Hope.
Procuring overseas can supply superior worth for cash with out that ‘Premier League premium’, however neither will come low-cost.
The Chronicle perceive that Monaco worth Akliouche at £50m, with all eyes on the Frenchman after his gorgeous overhead kick in final weekend’s 3-2 win over Rennes.
As or Ben Seghir, the Moroccan expertise is regarded as valued at £25m, however there’ll be loads of competitors on the continent with Barcelona and Napoli additionally massive admirers.
If home strikes for Bryan Mbeumo, Antoine Semenyo or Tyler Dibling don’t quantity to something this summer time, the likes of Akliouche or PSV’s Johan Bakayoko may very well be ones to be careful for.
