Guehi to Newcastle on brink of collapse - BBC, Sky Sports and The Telegraph issue updates

According to various reports on Thursday afternoon, Newcastle's attempts to sign Marc Guehi are on the brink of collapse.

Whether it's failing to agree a fee after weeks of talks, Palace's lack of time to replace him and Joachim Andersen or a knee injury suffered to fellow centre-back Chadi Riad, it seems our hopes of signing Eddie Howe's top target are rapidly dwindling.

Here's the updates we've seen from a number of national and north east reporters in the last few moments:

Keith Downie (Sky Sports) -  'Newcastle are set to walk away from their long-running pursuit of Marc Guéhi — after growing tired of negotiating with Crystal Palace.  The St James' Park club have offered a club record £65m + £5m in add-ons for the England international, but Palace owner Steve Parish has so far refused to accept.   The deal is not dead in the water, but I’m told the situation “isn’t good” with Newcastle chiefs feeling they’ve made a brilliant offer. #NUFC Sporting Director Paul Mitchell had been desperate to land Eddie Howe’s no.1 summer target, hence the huge offer that sits on the Palace table.'

John Percy (The Telegraph) - 'Guéhi to Newcastle sounds highly unlikely at this stage with Crystal Palace sticking to their valuation of around £70m. Obviously a day left in the window but the deal looks off.'

Sami Mokbel (The Mail) - 'Marc Guehi’s move to Newcastle is on the ropes following more talks. Crystal Palace defender Chadi Riad’s knee injury emerging as a factor. Riad was having a scan this morning. Suspected MCL injury.'

Nizaar Kinsella (BBC) - 'Concern Newcastle's deal for Marc Guehi might collapse at this late stage. It would need to be agreed or collapse in time for a replacement to be found. A very important moment in the negotiations.'

Luke Edwards (The Telegraph) - 'Newcastle will now have to pivot to someone like Simakan but we shall see. Like everyone else, I think there are serious questions to answer at #nufc. They have spent more than a month pursuing this deal which was supposedly close when negotiations started.'

Elsewhere, we've also seen HITC's Graeme Bailey report that Palace have now upped their asking price to £75m.

Whatever has happened, it's a real mess and a concern that we've pursued this deal for weeks - presumably with confidence it'll go through - only to be left in this predicament ahead of tomorrow's 11pm deadline.