It happens every summer that some top Italian clubs come in and try to lure Newcastle’s Italian International left-back Davide Santon away from Newcastle, and things are no different this summer, with Davide actually naming the two clubs that want to take him back home to Italy this summer.
Davide Santon – settled at Newcastle
Those two top clubs are AC Milan, the club he supported as a boy and Roma, who were second top of the Italian League last season behind Juventus, and are in the Champions League next season.
This is what Davide has said to Sky Sports in Italy about the current situation:
“There has been interest from Roma and AC Milan, but I have two years left on my contract at Newcastle and I don’t know if they will let me go.”
“I must say that I feel good at Newcastle as they have made me feel at home and I like the English League.” “Roma and Milan are two major teams, the Giallorossi (Roma) have been shown to have a strong team who’ll be able to fight for the Scudetto (Serie A) next season.”
“AC Milan had some problems this year and have changed coaches; Allegri originally, then Seedorf and now Filippo Inzaghi, so things haven’t been very stable.”
Both Roma and AC Milan have transfer money available to make a good offer for the 23 year-old, who has had three full seasons on Tyneside, and he has a Geordie girlfriend and they have a beautiful one year old baby daughter Sienna.
So as we said Davide is really settled at Newcastle.
And as usual it will depend on what kind of offer Newcastle get for the Italian International, and we think if one of those two clubs comes in with say a £10M offer for Davide, then he could be on his way out of Newcastle.
As we all know – it’s all about money at Newcastle – and if he leaves then Newcastle would presumably need to bring in a top left back as a replacement.
But maybe not, because we have local lad Paul Dummett and young Frenchmen Massadio Haidara vying for the left back position at Newcastle.
Since that would mean a £10M profit for Newcastle if we don’t need to go out and buy a replacement, we can see Mike Ashley selling Santon this summer, but only for that big transfer fee.
That’s how Mike Ashley seems to think about football – it’s all (only) about money – and that’s why we are a middle of the table side these days. 🙁
Comments welcome.
7 comments so far
jazzyp
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:41 AM
Comment #1Bad news lads!! Clement Greneir has suffered a significant injury in training and is out of the world cup.
So Cabella has been put on standby to take his place.
Cabella’s agents are now keen to do business after the world cup in hope that the lad’s stock rises….Bummer !!
catchy in norway
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:45 AM
Comment #2is anyone really interested in who we sign ??
we will be faced with the same problems no matter who we sign,
pardew will play them out of position to just do a job for the team, he will not exploit the talent they come with,
Pardew is the original Master of Disaster
you all know when it all starts going wrong, he is going to use this is a new group, he needs time, he has lost leaders in the dressing room ( SHOLA )
he makes me sick
jazzyp
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM
Comment #3Catchy
I would sooner us sign players than not mate. Not really a fan of Colback but will give the lad a chance and hope he becomes a success for us.
Cabella and siem de jong are more exciting prospects I would like to get over the line
James RS
Jun 6, 2014 at 9:57 AM
Comment #4Don’t let Santon go another technically good player like Ben Arfa…surely there can be room in the team for both of them.!
Laurent Robert 32
Jun 6, 2014 at 10:12 AM
Comment #5Jazzy, we already have exciting prospects that Pardew leaves out in favour of ‘graft’.
toonluvva
Jun 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM
Comment #6Wave a cheque in Ashleys face and he’ll grab it.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we sold everyone of our players during a transfer window without bring in a single replacement!
We’ll have a poor season (again) but a brilliant bank balance.
Brutooon
Jun 6, 2014 at 11:34 PM
Comment #7i said before dummet is not a left back, very slow versus fast wingers.
Haidara yes one for the future