Jamie Carragher fears Newcastle United will be paying over the odds for Marc Guehi if the club agree to match Crystal Palace reported £70m asking price.
The Sky Sports pundit feels the Eagles captain is a “good player”, but “wouldn’t pay £70m” and wonders if there’s better value elsewhere as we search for a right-footed centre-back.
This is a feeling shared by a few Newcastle fans, with most rating the 24-year-old yet questioning if he’s worth a club-record fee; which could take up all of our remaining budget and stop us from also signing a much-needed right-winger.
Speaking over the weekend, Carragher said: “Botman’s a big miss for them, he’s out for a while. It’s interesting what’s going to happen with Guehi at Crystal Palace, I mean Guehi… they’re talking about £60m, £70m, he’s a good player [but] I wouldn’t pay £70m for him though.
“That’s a big decision for the club whether they look somewhere else for someone cheaper because that is top dollar.”
At this stage, we might just accept an overpay if £70m got the deal done and finally ended this tedious transfer saga, but if that meant no right-winger it may feel like a mistake, especially when we’ve previously paid half that fee to bring Sven Botman and Bruno Guimaraes to the club.
It’s all hypothetical without us knowing the true ins and outs, but if AC Milan’s Malick Thiaw was half the price of Guehi and that freed up funds to also bring in a quality right-winger, I’d probably side with that over £70m on a centre-back approaching the final 18 months of his contract.
Of course he’s right!! Especially if they are saying by spending £70m on Guehi would leave no money for other additions – then yeah, it’s too much.
We could easily get a CB & RWF for the same money.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Think Jamie Carragher’s opinion would be very different if his beloved Liverpool were in for him
Darren Bebb(Quote)
Think the fact that if we now spend 70m we’ve had a good window says it all,
Kelly better than dummett
Osula better than Anderson
Can’t see much else in improving the squad or first team and still deadwood in the squad, other squads have improved significantly we haven’t yet ,
Aa(Quote)
CAn anyone tell me which CB they would sign. Ah , someone who can’t get into another squad in the premier league. Someone else’s cast offs!! Other than that we go abroad and take a chance at this stage of the window. Go all out for Guehi and what about Raheem Stirling taking a wage cut( we can but try). If we secured those 2 then that would make everyone satisfied. Sterling older but he’s a class act and we may get him on the cheap??!
Michael(Quote)
I think letting Gordon go for Gomes plus 40 million thus keeping Minteh and Anderson would have been the best deal.
Geoffrey Phillips(Quote)