We published a report yesterday that Newcastle were after 21 year old Dutch striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel.
Ricky Van Wolfswinkel – Newcastle bid £8M?
And the news this morning is that it looks like Newcastle have bid an amazing £8M for the striker, according to the Daily Mirror. We don’t know how true these reports are, but there are wide reports that Newcastle are after the youngster.
The 21-year-old 6’1″ striker has gained increasing focus from several major European clubs in the last few weeks, after starting this season in brilliant form for his Dutch club, Utrecht, and scoring on his International debut for the Netherlands against Ukraine, earlier this month.
The Woudenberg, Netherlands born player has a prolific goalscoring record for the Dutch Eredivise side, and has scored 12 goals this season already, and in his 78 senior games so far, he has scored 32 goals, and looks a natural goal-scorer.
And of course the striker hit a hat-trick last week as Utrecht put Celtic out of the Europa League, with an amazing 4-0 home win. This may be a pleasant surprise if the deal gets done in the next couple of days, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Newcastle also are reported to have had a scout at Portsmouth over the weekend to watch one of Newcastle’s targets, 23 year-old 6’2″ center-back Marc Wilson, but we’d be surprised if Newcastle go for Marc, unless Steven Taylor is leaving the club over his contract difficulties.
And there is still a very good chance that Spurs striker Robbie Keane will arrive on Tyneside for a season long loan deal, before tomorrow afternoon, and Newcastle will have an option to buy the Irish captain for £6M next summer.
Keep your seat-belts fastened for the next 40 hours or so, until the transfer window closes at 5:00pm tomorrow afternoon.
Comments welcome.
87 comments so far
nufclewizc
Aug 30, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Comment #81yeah lavezzi mint! he play for lazio or sumthin?
GeordieTartanArmy
Aug 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Comment #828mill? he is unproven but still a good player
toon95
Aug 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Comment #83we need to get rid of shola and best and bring wolfswinkle.
saroof
Aug 30, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Comment #84what the hell……if u want to top striker…just go 4 lavezzi…..
GeordieToon89
Aug 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Comment #85we’d probz get lavezzi for the 8mil wher rumoured to be paying for wolfswinkel and i sure know who id rather have on board(Lavezzi) would be the perfect foil for carroll as he is really quick has a good eye for goal and is only 25 so still has plenty sell on value and enough room for more improvement
GeordieToon89
Aug 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Comment #86ha his nickname is el pocho = the chubby one
YANICK MALTA NUFC
Aug 30, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Comment #87@ GeordieToon89
I’m not telling you to pay 8 million on Elmander.But I’ll go for him with maybe 2 million ……..
There’s plenty of other options if we really have 8 million to spend for a striker