According to L’Equipe, the would-be owners of Newcastle United have already made “concrete contact” with Mauricio Pochettino over a potential move to St James’ Park.
The same report also claims that the Saudi-backed consortium are preparing to appoint a new manager – ideally their ‘no.1 target’ Pochettino – along with a new Sporting Director‘ (Director of Football) and ‘Academy Director‘.
L’Equipe insists that the prospective buyers are “going to invest massively“, however a snippet from their piece also suggests they’ll shop smart in a bid to land high quality bargains available at a knockdown price.
With this in mind, they claim that a raid of Ligue 1 – a league hit hard by the coronavirus crisis – is on the cards, stating a number of French agents are ‘attentive’ to the situation and expecting Newcastle to make several moves in that market should a £300m takeover go through.
This is just me putting two and two together, but it’s worth noting that several Ligue 1 players have been linked over the past week – Cavani (PSG), Sangare (Toulose), Dembele (Lyon), Kouassi (PSG) and Maouassa (Rennes) to name a few.
It’s another report that we can only get so excited about when a takeover is yet to be officially announced, but with there now being a growing feeling that official confirmation will arrive next week, it may not be long until we’re finally getting those cans out of the fridge!
Hi guys.
Let’s not just keep regurgitating the same media hype every other day, just because there’s nothing new to report.
This is a proper site for proper fans, but cut the recycling of the garbage. Your readers are better than that.
Kevin Lancaster(Quote)