Pinch of salt alert, but it’s being reported that Newcastle are ‘close’ to agreeing a loan deal for previously linked Napoli defender Faouzi Ghoulam.
This comes from Le Buteur – the leading football news outlet in Algeria – who state that we have contacted the left-back’s agent, Jorge Mendes, and are closing in on a deal for the 29-year-old.
Ghoulam is able to play anywhere down the left-hand side and has been forced to settle for a bit-part role with Napoli this season, with six of his seven Serie A appearances coming from the bench.
Time will tell if this latest transfer rumour has any legs, however it would make some sense considering this comes a few days after we’d reportedly given up up in our pursuit of Man Utd full-back Brandon Williams.
Jetro Willems is the left-back most Mags want to see us go for, although that awful ACL injury has meant he hasn’t kicked a ball in competitive action for almost 12 months now – meaning he’s anything but a ready-made option to come straight into Bruce’s side.
As for Ghoulam, this isn’t the first time we’ve been linked with the experienced Algerian international, with it reported in Italy this time last year that we’d had an ‘opening offer’ rejected for the former Saint-Etienne star.
Are we really are interested 12 months later? We shall see.
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WE need a MIDFIELD PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
taken4mugs(Quote)
Totally agree. Box-to-box midfielder badly needed to give us some drive and power!
Olly Hawkins(Quote)
Sorry but both the above are missing the obvious
We have 47 midfielder’s – yes Hendrick is Utley rubbish and Fraser is a Backslider!
WHAT WE NEED is a MANAGER
And give the bloke enough time to get rib of Bruce’s influence = has to be done NOW
KK(Quote)
Think about how many players we actually need. Where the takeover to go through (it wont) only 4 players would survive Wilson maxi dubravka and Darlow. And most of those 4 would be bench warmers.
Newcastle need rebuilding top to bottom.
Stephen Paul Stokoe(Quote)
Spot on
Stephen Paul Stokoe(Quote)
Are we now looking through the telephone directory 4 names? Why not try somebody in Non league teams better players and have more heart. 😡
Faisho(Quote)