Spanish newspaper Sport is reporting that Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez wants to sign Malaga 21 year-old striker/forward Sandro Ramirez.
We were first interested in this player in May two years ago when he was still at Barcelona, but then last July he signed on for Malaga on a three year contract.
He is only 21 years old and a good age for Newcastle’s Spanish manager Rafa Benitez to start to coach the impressive Spanish U21 forward.
Sandro Ramirez – Malaga 21 year-old striker
Sandro has had a very good first season for Malaga scoring 15 goals and 3 assists in 28 games in all competitions for his club.
He was born in Las Palmas in the Canary Isles and played initially for his home-town club UD Las Palmas before joining Barcelona’s youth setup in 2009 at the age of 14.
He is in big demand because he is available for a reasonable fee with his release clause said to be just €5M and Newcastle have shown before they can move with lightning speed when a basement bargain beckons.
Certainly the transfer partnership of Rafa Benitez working with Managing Director Lee Charnley, both workaholics, augurs well for the future after they did such stellar work for the club last summer.
Rafa identified the players and Lee and his team when out and negotiated the deals.
Benitez is said to want to bring in two strikers this summer to strengthen what was a weakness in the side this season.
We missed far too many chances and we could have gained a lot more points than the 91 we have with one game to play, if we had been able to kill games off when we had the chance to.
And Rafa and Lee are keen to make some bargain buys, so Rafa can bring in up to eight new players this summer.
Sandro could well be attracted to Newcastle with Rafa Benitez being one of the best Spanish managers in the game and he will have a very good and compelling story to tell about how he wants to make Newcastle UNited into a top European club.
And we had over 51,000 average home crowds last season at St. James’ Park in England’s second division.
Just €5M for this excellent young forward seems like a new brainer for Newcastle – hope we can get him.
Comments welcome.
7 comments so far
lochinvar
May 5, 2017 at 8:29 AM
Comment #1Expatmag
That will make Pardew an expat as well so you can look forward to a beer together in the expat club, cozy !
Rumour here is that he wants John Carver as his number two and that Denis Wise as Director of Football.
So much to look forward to
lochinvar
May 5, 2017 at 8:35 AM
Comment #2Ramirez – does this suggest that Benitez won’t spend on a new established (expensive) striker rather he’ll go with a young guns approach of Perez, Ramirez, Mitro (?) Aarons and Gayle
If that’s the case up front then expect the money to be so be spent on midfielders and central defenders to establish a cast iron defence to stifle opposition and attack attack attack with speedy breakaways.
JP...from The Rock
May 5, 2017 at 8:46 AM
Comment #3Looks class and dead cheap with a £6m clause. Sign him up Rafa!
WWSBRD
May 5, 2017 at 8:51 AM
Comment #4Dodgy rehash I reckon
sparky55
May 5, 2017 at 8:52 AM
Comment #5Expat…good you can keep your sense of humour under the circumstances .
Question is…will you go watch him just for a laf and to remind yourself of days gone by and what we’re not missing now we have Rafa!
expatmag
May 5, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Comment #6Lochinvar
I never liked you…..lol
expatmag
May 5, 2017 at 8:58 AM
Comment #7SPARKY
Fortunately, I follow the other Melbourne team, Melbourne Victory so I will only watch the other mob in derbies.