Newcastle will try to land a top young striker this summer. There are a couple of high-profile targets who continue to enter the conversation in Benfica’s Darwin Nunez and Napoli’s Victor Osimhen.
However, it could take a miracle to rival our recent climb up the table to land either. If they become available, they would be in very high demand and cost a small fortune. Newcastle may have to move to other targets.
Sport Witness is citing a claim from Italy that Newcastle are tracking Sassuolo’s Gianluca Scamacca, who was briefly linked in January. The 6’5″ Italian has matched Osimhen’s tally in Serie A with 13 goals, albeit with 9 more appearances.
According to Italian journalist Ciro Venerato, Newcastle and both Milan clubs are on Scamacca’s trail. Napoli also see the 23-year-old as a potential replacement should Osimhen leave this summer.
Before this season, Scamacca spent the majority of the last three years on loan with Cremonese, PEC Zwolle, Ascoli, and Genoa. He finished his loan spell in Genoa with 6 goals in his last 8 appearances.
This is his first serious run in the Sassuolo team, who he joined from PSV in 2017. Scamacca also has three caps for Italy, most recently this past March. One potential issue is that he signed a contract extension last month to 2026.
Venerato has his price tag at €40m which is very steep but likely half of what Osimhen would command. With Newcastle desperate to add options up front, Scamacca could be one to watch this summer.
285 comments so far
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 8:05 AM
Comment #201Also,
Jiggery pokery!
ShaytoStay
May 4, 2022 at 8:33 AM
Comment #202Anyone read this, surely the biggest difference is Bruce spent a fortune and Benitez didn’t, one point I can’t understand from Shearer is his backing of Bruce.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/05/04/alan-shearer-has-made-a-claim-about-newcastle-fans-benitez-and-bruce/
Bills Son Is Back
May 4, 2022 at 8:37 AM
Comment #203Jiggered – origin revealed.
My dad Bill was an electrician in the mines and as a kid I used to turn his jigger for him.
A jigger was a small box with negative and positive wires with clips, a turning handle that produced an electrical current and a dial to show the current.
If an electrical machine broke down it was used to find where the circuit was breaking. The wires where clipped onto each part of the circuit, the handle was turned to send a current through, and if the dial didn’t register the current flowing THAT was where the circuit was ‘jiggered’.
Hence a lot of Geordies back yonder would come back off a shift at the yards or mines and say they were jiggered ie., knackered 🙂
Sparky
May 4, 2022 at 8:39 AM
Comment #204Nice one Bill.. loving the ditty!
Bills Son Is Back
May 4, 2022 at 8:49 AM
Comment #205Sparky
I still call a 50p piece ‘ten bob’ or if I give my grandkids some pocket money I’ll say “there’s a few bob”.
That’s another bit of slang that won’t last much longer.
Raj of Hailsley
May 4, 2022 at 8:52 AM
Comment #206ShaytoStay,
Now that’s how to start a Rafa vs Bruce debate, none of these nimby pamby stat tables to kick it off, straight in to the meat 😀
Raj of Hailsley
May 4, 2022 at 8:57 AM
Comment #207I find it really sad how wif and wiv are becoming common place seemingly unchecked. It doesn’t help that the BBC are actively encouraging it mind. Protected a peedo for years but are afraid to preserve our language, presenters now, it’ll be news readers next.
Sparky
May 4, 2022 at 8:57 AM
Comment #208Bills…me too! 😀 😀
Raj of Hailsley
May 4, 2022 at 8:59 AM
Comment #209Angela Ripon:
“Wif Ukranian forces.. . ”
😥
Sparky
May 4, 2022 at 9:03 AM
Comment #210Re the word bray…my very grumpy old man used to use the word ‘tan’
Ie ..if ye divent pack that in I’ll tan the arse off ya ya little b@stard
God bless his sole! 😀
Bills Son Is Back
May 4, 2022 at 9:08 AM
Comment #211Woe betide you…
That’s another one that’s disappearing.
If did owt wrong when I was a kid that’s what I was told…
In other words… you’ll be in trouble.
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:10 AM
Comment #212Or tan ya hide?
Bills Son Is Back
May 4, 2022 at 9:11 AM
Comment #213Dunshed or ‘divvent dunsh is”…
That meant don’t shove me or was used when a car was in an accident and had been dunshed or had a dunsh ie., a panel damage.
Bills Son Is Back
May 4, 2022 at 9:16 AM
Comment #214Last one for now…
A hoy oot.
When someone got married the bride’s dad used to thrown penny’s, threepenny bits and tanners (sixpences) out of the car when she was picked up from the house and us kids used to scramble round to grab them.
Also happened after the wedding and we’d find out where it was and hang around for the hoy oot.
Happy days 🙂
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 9:16 AM
Comment #215It’s like a walk down memory lane, loving it. Brought up with and used all the above mentioned phrases. Sadly as Bills says they’re getting used less often. 🙁
Carry on me canny lads, loving it. 😀
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:16 AM
Comment #216Raj
They (bbc et al) won’t stop or di anything about such stuff…as the middle class systematically destroy the language, on an hourly basis. What with their parssed, farst, clarss, obligatry, milatry ecetera.
Yea?
Biggest culprits!
Then they slag off the ‘kids’ for making new words up. The kids actually make new wirds, the middle class just mangle words, vowels etc. They hate vowels.
Mentalists!
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:18 AM
Comment #217Shan is a good one.
It’s totally shan!
Raj of Hailsley
May 4, 2022 at 9:19 AM
Comment #218CF,
Please don’t tell me you say wif and wiv 😮
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 9:19 AM
Comment #219The hoy oot was good pocket money for Church choir boys. We’d get a few bob for singing during the service, then rip our surplus’s and cassocks off and belt round to the front of the church to catch the hoy oot! Happy days 🙂
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:21 AM
Comment #220Raj
Nee way marra!
Wi’cha, wi’ya, wha’cha, wha’cheor!
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:21 AM
Comment #221Raj
Na man, I’m talking about kids naking words up, not breaking them down.
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 9:24 AM
Comment #222CF, the one I dislike the most is barth for bath ffs when did bath acquire a bloody r in it?
If I hear someone on the telly say it, I go mental every time and rage at the telly, I know it’s nuts but can’t help it, gets right up me nose! 😀
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 9:29 AM
Comment #223It was good money if you had to do a solo at the wedding. I think I used to get 5 bob for a solo, but it might have only been 2/6 or half a crown.
It was a bugger when the voice broke, lost a steady income stream, nobody would pay to hear a frog croak 😀
ShaytoStay
May 4, 2022 at 9:32 AM
Comment #224Raj ? yeh I forgot I was stirring the pot, just thought the quote was missing how much Bruce spent , but heh hoh they’re both away and we’re now looking good.
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:32 AM
Comment #225Cbob
All that overarching the vowels bollox is real annoying, hey?
It’s also the fact that it’s so inconsistent too. Clarss but not clarssic Parth but nit parthology for eg…
Weirdos!
😀
They hate it when I point it out, too.
😀
They day: it doesn’t work like that…then u say, well tell me how ut does work, so i can join in…they can’t tell me…ie, it’s bollox!
Then i tell ’em it’s cos doon sooth is still french and the aristocracy is still french.
They f@#£ing HATE that.
😀
Bug laughs all round!
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:37 AM
Comment #226Big laughs, even…or possibly, big larrrrfffs!
😀
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 9:38 AM
Comment #227Nuucarssew! You knighted!
😀
Sparky
May 4, 2022 at 9:48 AM
Comment #228I used to live on hesleyside drive in fenham and there was church at the top of the street that was very popular for weddings back in day…we had hoy oots just about every saturday from April thru til september. We’d all be playing footy on the edge of the fields opposite me house so we could see the cars coming down the street then all pile over for the hoy oots.
Happy days!
Sparky
May 4, 2022 at 9:50 AM
Comment #229Cleveleys…saw your note on Ribero’s…my favourite wine ever.
We lived in Spain for 6 years and was very lucky to discover it early doors…a magnificent wine!
…and such good value as well.
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM
Comment #230Sparky, good on yer, great isn’t it, I got introduced to it by some folks from Teesside who had their own Restaurant in Benalmadena. We were on a property search at the time and fancied the area, stayed for a week in the Vincii Hotel on the Sea Front and the restaurant was awful.
So we wondered about and came across this place with English owners who were great and they said try this wine – loved it. I think it was late Feb or Early March one year so not much open, really glad we found this place.
Decided not to buy anywhere and just kept going to Marbella for hols instead Elviria district on Eastern outskirts of “Marbs” very nice, owned a Marriott timeshare there for a few years and kept going after we sold it on. This wine turned me away from my previous favourite of Faustino Rioja Reserva , the one with the silver label 😀
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:13 AM
Comment #231Wandered ffs. 😀
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:19 AM
Comment #232Clint, my boss for the last 22years leading up to retirement was a Londoner, as was his Wife.
We got on really well and often met up outside of work for dinners, they’d either visit the North for a weekend or we’d go down to the smoke.
We used argue for hours about Southern perceptions of Northerners, you know the flat cap and clogs! Plus their annihilation of the English Language, all light hearted but with serious intent! 😀
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 10:20 AM
Comment #233https://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/how-newcastle-uniteds-ps260million-squad-market-value-compares-with-leeds-united-aston-villa-and-everton-3679215
How is Maxi our mvp at 28m+, when Bruno is 35-42m and Jo 40m?
Eh?
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
May 4, 2022 at 10:24 AM
Comment #234You want to live in Surry, every bath has an R in it. Spent 30 odd years trying to tell the boss how to pronounce bath. I have tried bath, baff everything, still comes out as barth
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:25 AM
Comment #235Sparky, been thinking and don’t think the Rioja Reserva that I liked was a Faustino. 🙂 Memory like a Sieve, I’ll have to ask the Mrs. 😀
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:27 AM
Comment #236Tough one that Peter.
Raj of Hailsley
May 4, 2022 at 10:29 AM
Comment #237Struggling to find orange germaniums, wanting to get them potted and ready to plant in a couple of weeks before I go on my holidays 😕
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 10:29 AM
Comment #238Cbob
Good one.
I know…people down south defo think the north ends around leeds…i just laugh and say it doesn’t start ’til after leeds, I’m afraid.
So they associate Yorkshire accents and stuff…i just say I’m from the deep north…proper North, ya know, the bit between england and Scotland, Geordieland!
Then hoy in a bunch of proper northern colloquiums… they’re like…eh?
What language is that?
I just remind them to do some research of their own land. Red faces!
😉
As you drive north…when you get to the midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, manc etc it still says to the North on the road signs… Scotch Corner… that’s the start of the North. Imv.
cleveleysbob
May 4, 2022 at 10:30 AM
Comment #239Sparky – memory recall – Marques de Riscal, Rioja Reserva.
Got there in the end 😆
CLINT FLICK
May 4, 2022 at 10:31 AM
Comment #240Raj
Know anyone/where ya can take a cutting?