According to reports in Brazil, Newcastle United are lining up a bid for Santos striker Marcos Leonardo.
Links to the 20-year-old first surfaced back in June, when The Mail revealed that we had scouts at the Under-20 World Cup to watch the free-scoring forward.
Then came some big claims from Brazil at the end of October, with UOL and Premier League Brasil revealing that Newcastle were in discussions with Santos over a potential move for the youngster.
Fast forward a few weeks, Bolavip Brasil have released an update on our growing interest, claiming we are preparing to launch a €18m bid (£15.75m), including bonuses, to sign Leonardo.
His record at senior level is superb for a player of his age. He’s scored 21 goals in 45 appearances for Santos over the past season, also bagging seven goals in seven games for Brazil’s U20s.
The South American looks a huge talent and could be an ideal third striker to learn from Callum Wilson and Alexander Isak. Let’s hope there’s some truth in this one.
Let’s hope he doesn’t learn how to be injured ????
Joseph(Quote)
I feel sorry for both Callum Wilson and Alexander Isak and I’m sure neither of them wish to be injured – ever!! The fact/stats show however, that both are very “injury-prone” which has caused real problems recently and it doesn’t look like that problem is going to go away…
A new CF/Striker with proven ability and youth on his side is a no-brainer and should be a PRIORITY!!
Northern soul 66(Quote)
So we have minteh at feyernood
Bring him back and let him learn off Wilson
Or is this a case of bring him and loan him out like minteh and Harrison Ashby
Tony1(Quote)