There is news coming through from Italy that Newcastle United have agreed a £15M fee fee to sign the Anderlecht striker Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Anderlecht striker Aleksandar Mitrovic
The deal is being reported on the Italian website gianlucadimarzio.com, but it’s not clear if the deal will go through now or will be dependent on Newcastle keeping their Premier League status this season.
Aleksander has scored 25 goals in 47 appearances this season for his Belgian side who play in the for Jupiler Pro League, and he’s had a great season and is still only 20 years old and already has 11 full caps for Serbia after also playing for the U21 and U19 side.
And terms are still to be agreed with the young striker, so it seems Newcastle have agreed the fee with Anderlecht and can now talk to the player.
But it does seem that Newcastle have stolen a march on other clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool – so it would be a surprise if we can now actually sign him.
20 year-old Aleksander Mitrovic in Serbian colors
The 20 year-old 6ft 3ins striker seems a natural goalscorer, and he was at Belgrade clubs Teleoptik and Partizan before joining the Belgian club in the summer of 2013, for a transfer fee of €5M (£3.9M) – which is Anderlecht’s record transfer fee.
In his career he has played 154 first team games and has scored 66 goals, so he is one of the very best young strikers in Europe and in great demand.
Newcastle have been linked with him since last summer.
The Serbian is a powerful striker and played particularly well in this season’s Champions League for Anderlecht, and he also has good speed, and certainly looks like a top young player who would be a terrific acquisition for Newcastle United.
But there’s no way this deal will go through if the Magpies are relegated this season.
Here’s hoping – oh yes – and here’s praying.
Comments welcome.
144 comments so far
Ultra Mag-ness
May 5, 2015 at 3:10 PM
Comment #41Appreciate this is a rumour but let’s be honest there is no chance this is/ could be true. Any Prospective Player isn’t going to come to our club he way it is. No European football, uncertainty over which league we will even be in, uncertainty over who would be in charge next season (we wouldn’t have gone for McClaren if we had another coach lined up), uncertainty over which of our players are going to even be here next year regardless of where we finish, fans rebelling, no expenditure or perceived ambition and that’s before other clubs come in said player offering better wages, coaching and actually chances of challenging for a cup or trophy
The lack of foresight the regime have had is just unreal.
Hughie_Gallacher
May 5, 2015 at 3:11 PM
Comment #42The beginning of a summer of baseless transfer speculation.
Don’t fall for it.
Average_Contents
May 5, 2015 at 3:16 PM
Comment #43Not taking no shit! About time’
http://mobile.newsnow.co.uk/A/771551460?-11058:809
Lindisfarne
May 5, 2015 at 3:19 PM
Comment #44Fans Forum II
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/newcastle-s-fans-forum-calls-for-crisis-meeting-with-mike-ashley-and-issues-message-to-players-1-7245120
Sir Braveheart
May 5, 2015 at 3:20 PM
Comment #45Not going to happen.
I can see where Ed’s coming from – he’s overseas and would give anything to be able to come and watch games and roar the team on, so when you don’t have that opportunity and you see others who have that chance but choose not to, it’s natural there’s going to be some frustration there.
I kind of agree on the Pardew issue too. He wasn’t good enough for where we wanted to be, but under Ashleys strict ruling with those restraints he did a good job. If he’d stayed we would be 5-6 points better off and not thinking about relegation. Mid table isn’t good enough but I dont think Pardew was the real issue, he did what he could. I knew we wouldn’t get a top manager in, it doesn’t fit the profile, so I was wary about letting Pardew go and knowing we wouldn’t get anyone in.
But what I don’t agree with Ed is that the boycotts and protests have landed us in this situation. the fact is Carver is out of his depth, he’s been promoted above his station by Ashley and we’re paying the price. Things started off reasonable, but the longer he’s in charge the more he’s lost the dressing room. Carver won’t walk because of his pride. The blame for where we are right now lies with Ashley.
Do we continue to protest? Absolutely. Because the players aren’t playing for Carver, they’re not playing for the club, so they sure as hell aren’t going to play just because we cheer them on a little bit louder. I don’t think protests or boycotts are going to make one bit of difference to the players, so if we’re going to be relegated it will happen whether we protest or not.
Personally I’m happy to kick back and welcome relegation and five years in the wilderness if that’s what it takes to get rid of Ashley. The fans will still be here after he’s gone, and a new owner rebuilding will have the finances and support to do so (19th biggest turnover remember) so we will eventually get back into the premier league, but I’d see us in the lower reaches of the championship if that’s what it took. Thats how much I want Ashley out, thats how much of a problem I think he is, and I’ll back any legal and peaceful means to try to force him out thats going. We’re never going to be anything more than a middling unambitious club until he’s gone.
That’s my stance Ed
optimistic prime
May 5, 2015 at 3:21 PM
Comment #46Definatley worth a read, this is what you’re saving, your club.
Pfffft
http://whatculture.com/sport/15-examples-that-prove-nufc-isnt-your-club.php
Tell me one thing on that list worth saving.
KevinLee
May 5, 2015 at 3:27 PM
Comment #47Come on join a joke club, play in championship league next year
RUNAWAY777
May 5, 2015 at 3:34 PM
Comment #48massagers in my e mail now trying sell ticket for the match with west brom must be a far few not going keep the good work up lads
scout
May 5, 2015 at 3:34 PM
Comment #49Theyre pulling your pi–er, just want you to get another season ticket.
Why would they pay 15 million??
scout
May 5, 2015 at 3:37 PM
Comment #50Why dont the club run a competition to actually play in the defence against WBA?
Its a cracking idea, along side Colo you would look great. His great leadership skills and positional play will ensure you cruise through the 90 minutes.
toonicle
May 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM
Comment #51Carr lost a lot of standing for me this year. Riviere and Cabella look totally out of their depth, De Jong out all season and even Perez outside of that run of 6-8 games hasn’t exactly been thrilling. Not to mention Ferreyra…
croftus5678
May 5, 2015 at 3:40 PM
Comment #52type of player we need !
1st team top 6 quality player cisse/mitrovic/siem is a top 3 to be proud of with perez and arma as backup
rolando lw sissoko rw and colback in middle with abied as cover just the back 4 to sort as usual.
Obertan's better than Messi
May 5, 2015 at 3:41 PM
Comment #53All you naughty boycotters … I know it must be tempting to use your season tickets to laugh at our back four. I’m sure it will be a comedy of many errors, but please resist and continue in your excellent work exposing and highlighting the inept management and unsporting ownership of what was our club.
I salute and thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart.
#ASHLEYOUT
Dondatta13
May 5, 2015 at 3:47 PM
Comment #54toonicle @50…
Carr compiles a list mate, no doubt a list that is long and full of amazing talent. Is it really his fault that fat lad only selects the dross at the very bottom of the list where sicknotes, questionable attitudes and cheaper cost reside? Seriously?
HWTF
N1CK06
May 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM
Comment #55Must be about due for a new post,
How about a poll Ed???
Dondatta13
May 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM
Comment #56OH and I almost forgot….Ferreyra…
That came under the reccomendation of our captain marvel… Colo
TacoFlavoredKisses ForMyBen-arfa
May 5, 2015 at 3:50 PM
Comment #57i dont get the flack on carver at ALL. please consider the parameters hes working under. in addition, its too soon to judge cabella or SDJ, their hasnt been enough to consistent play to evaluate them. The same can be said on Rivi to a lesser extent. How many other teams have bought and sold for mega profits on a shoe string budget.
Obertan's better than Messi
May 5, 2015 at 3:53 PM
Comment #58Amalfitano … you could see on the exciting pre-season tour of second division European teams that he was crap.
I have no idea but like Dondatta said he was discounted and cheap.
Dondatta13
May 5, 2015 at 3:56 PM
Comment #59I would rather we got relegated, starv the leech of his blood supply (Money)…
However, the only way to change this almighty slump given the apparent fractured relations in the dressing room?
Get every single first team player to shave his head…. As a show of solidarity…. Quite a visual show of intent to slug it out as a team…
lochinvar
May 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM
Comment #60Can he play on Saturday ?
Could we not ask the FA for special exemption , they did it to allow HBA for Hull on deadline day.
For that matter why can’t HBA play for us for three games.
For that matter why can’t the team we’ve got play for us for three games !
scout
May 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM
Comment #61Wba are 5/1 to win by 2 or more goals. Hate to admit it but what a bet. We have a depleted defence. They’re dangerous from set plays too.
roblee7
May 5, 2015 at 4:14 PM
Comment #62A bit off topic but been thinking and if we had some ambition and kept a hold of our better players, we would have some team now. if that was the case, I think this team could compete for top 7 and Graham carr would be forgiven for the flops! (couldn’t think of anyone else to put centre back other than Colo mind and had to put Debuchy and Janmaat in as they’re both quality)
Krul
Debuchy Janmaat Colo Enrique
Sissoko De Jong Cabaye
Remy Carroll Ba
Oh, and if we’d had a decent manager who could of controlled and nurtured Ben Arfa I’d stick him in instead of Sissoko who is too inconsistent. Anyway, where would that team finish in the league??
hibbit
May 5, 2015 at 4:16 PM
Comment #63there is only one source for rubbish stories like this mr bishop its all a pr scam drip feeding the press with lies
Lilongwe Geordie
May 5, 2015 at 4:20 PM
Comment #64Months too late. This move should have been targeted in January, once they were out of the Champions league.
Don’t believe any of it anyway, how/why would we be in negotiations when it is still in the balance as to which division we will play in, unless they are currently working on 2 different lists of players .
ilovetoon8788
May 5, 2015 at 4:21 PM
Comment #65We can smell bullshi* miles away from our club nowadays. And this 15m is bshi*. I’m sick of lies. Get those f*ers out of our club.
optimistic prime
May 5, 2015 at 4:23 PM
Comment #66http://m.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/remy-cabella-reveals-all-about-tense-atmosphere-at-newcastle-1-7245300
Just had a quick read of this and something I can’t understand is when he says he was in the team thurs but out of it on Friday. Why?
I’m assuming they trained all week on one formation or team set up then changed it the day before, not very good prep IMO
Graeme
May 5, 2015 at 4:26 PM
Comment #67http://news.yahoo.com/no-ambition-revolt-fans-newcastle-freefall-170504623.html
Blackley and Brownlie
May 5, 2015 at 4:27 PM
Comment #68Ibiza
You don’t understand my posts and I don’t understand yours. To answer your Huddersfield scenario of two fans who’ve followed the club for 10 years: one who’s 50 (lets say me) and one who’s 15 and a Yorkshireman.
The Yorkshireman will have the important added element; he’s a Yorkshireman and proud of it and Huddersfield, the Yorkshire club,is a symbol of his local pride. He will follow through thick and thin, good times and bad because it’s not all about the success on the pitch. There’s more to it than the football.
I, on the other hand, not being a native might not be inclined to support the club in times of turmoil. It might be a pleasure in the good times but my interest and commitment might be more inclined to wane in the bad times. It doesn’t have the same value to me and so my priorities will be different.
It’s that thing a cockney Man Utd supporter will never have. The football club represents your region and your pride in it. You will follow it wherever it takes you.
It’s why I would never be so arrogant to tell the natives how to run the place if I wasn’t one of them. I certainly wouldn’t be slagging them off.
I can’t believe the audacity of anyone who’s never been to SJP or has only recently become an NUFC supporter telling long suffering supporters how to support their club. It’s like me coming into your house and criticising your furniture. Or a YTS coming into a new job and telling the MD of 40 years that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It shows no respect. Incredible.
dok - the horrid colonial
May 5, 2015 at 4:31 PM
Comment #69@ 68,
you cant make it up…
but in youre case, you can…
shut up already
roblee7
May 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM
Comment #70Actually, sod it, I’d stick M’biwa in as oppose to Colo, that’s if we’d had a decent manager as I think under a proper coach he would of been good
toonicle
May 5, 2015 at 4:34 PM
Comment #71Dondatta- I won’t hang Ferreyra on him you arze correct, that was Colo’s brilliant suggestion again. Cabella however came highly recommended by Carr and we spent a good bit of cash on him, it wasn’t some down list stop gap purchase, we bring him in and he’s falling over during a wind gust.
Mister Tuff
May 5, 2015 at 4:36 PM
Comment #72aw fcuk it’s him again.
snorebore.
ZZZZzzzzzzzzz.
2_goal_tino
May 5, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Comment #73In regards to the protests, I think it is time to put them on the backburner until we are safe. Of course the protests haven’t got us in this situation but a full SJP cheering on the team may well get us out of it!!!
For the last two home games … lets bring back the noise to SJP. The ‘pro-protest’ argument that ’45K+ have been going all season and they are still rubbish’ just doesn’t hold true. For the past 18 months SJP has resembled a library with the vast majority coming and sitting silently. At no stage this season and certainly not in 2015 has the stadium truly got behind the team and made some noise. Come to the game and bring back the noise to SJP. It may, just may, spur on the players to get an extra goal or defend that little bit harder. If our players really are so spineless that it doesn’t impact their performances, it may weaken West Brom or West Ham given that a rocking SJP is widely regarded by ex-players as one of the most intimidating stadiums in Europe.
Turning up to the stadium and sitting silently achieves nothing – it is neither a protest or show of support. Come and make some noise – you don’t have to support the regime, manager or players. But at least support the club!!!
There are so many songs which have all too regularly been sung half-hearted or not at all recently. So please come along and sing some of our eternal classics: ‘Bobby Robson Wonderland’, ‘One Bobby Robson’, ‘Blaydon Races’, ‘We are the Geordies’, ‘Toon Toon Black n White Army’, ‘We’re gonna win f*** all, we still follow United’, ‘Lalalalala Geordies (hey Jude)’, ‘Liam O’Brien, Andy O’Brien, Any, Any O’Brien’, ‘We don’t care about Ashley’…. Or my personal favourite ‘Pogo if you love the Toon’ and my judge of if you are a true fan ‘Shoes off if you love the Toon.’
Graeme
May 5, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Comment #74A very true assesment of NUFC
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-players-done-very-9180970
Ciaran
May 5, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Comment #75Blackley
“I can’t believe the audacity of anyone who’s never been to SJP or has only recently become an NUFC supporter telling long suffering supporters how to support their club”
Thankfully I’ve been to SJP and I’ve been a Newcastle United supporter for the best part of 20 years so that must mean I am qualified to tell other long-suffering supporters how to support OUR club.
Finally got the validation from Blackley that I’ve so craved.
Blackley and Brownlie
May 5, 2015 at 4:48 PM
Comment #76Prof
Don’t cry Si. I’m sure you can liven the place up with an exposition of a tort case against Ashley that you’re mulling over in chambers.
Dondatta13
May 5, 2015 at 4:49 PM
Comment #77toonicle@71, tbh buddy, once HBA was hung out to dry, I’d say that most of us were wanting a proper ball player brought in, Cabella fitted the bill.
New league for the lad, even one of the worlds best playing in one of the worlds greatest teams with one of the games best ever managers struggled in his first season. Ronaldo, Man U & SAF.
Now im not suggesting wor Cabs is a world beater but to be honest, with the team “playing” like we do, with the “managers” we’ve had, is it really any wonder he hasnt lived up to our expectations?
Scapegoats are easy to find matey, like shooting fish in a barrel….
Id point your concerns at the person making these “executive decisions”
HWTF
Blackley and Brownlie
May 5, 2015 at 4:53 PM
Comment #78Ciaran
There’s no show without punch. How many times have you been to SJP? What do you do to support the team when you’re there? You come across as an expert as you deign to tell everyone else how to do it right. That’s the way to do it!
optimistic prime
May 5, 2015 at 4:54 PM
Comment #79We’ve got Mirindina
he’s not from Argentina
he’s from Brazil
he’s fkin brill.
toonicle
May 5, 2015 at 5:00 PM
Comment #80Dondatta- I only buy that excuse up to a point, yes it’s a new league and his first year but he’s gotten plenty of games under him at this point and honestly I haven’t seen a thing that would tell me he’s improved one little bit. Tries 7 step overs and then falls down or gets it taken from him every time. I’m not using him as a scapegoat though, the rest of the team hasn’t helped at all i’m just trying to say that Carr really got it wrong for me over the summer and my confidence that he will do better this summer is very low, assuming we are even in the league still.