Newcastle Joined reportedly want to indicator a Marseille gamer that once urged a fan to go on malnourishment strike in protest at how not enough at football he is.
It’s been a stark summertime season transfer dwelling window for Newcastle so far. They place’t signed any person and also owned bids refuted last week for Brighton’s Joao Pedro, Nottingham Woodland’s Anthony Elanga and also Burnley’s James Trafford.
Pedro is presently ascertained to indication upwards with Chelsea, Elanga’s £60million acquiring queries price is placing off the Magpies, and also while they are drafted for to indicator Trafford, Burnley are clutching out for more detailed to £40m after refuting a £25m bargain.
None of those players are central defenders, yet that’s another posture Eddie Howe is anxious to reinforce this summertime season.
Newcastle have been truly attached with Crystal Royal abode and also England centre-recommend Marc Guehi, yet Liverpool are presently favourites to indicator him.
After dropping short to land Guehi last summertime season, the Geordies are presently peeking at other targets — one of which is Marseille’s Leonardo Balerdi.
That’s according to Mail Sport journalist Craig Hope, that claims Juventus are also anxious on the Argentina internationally yet have a ‘prohibited wallet’.
That owns urged Newcastle to render their activity, owning ‘picked upwards an chance’ to indicator the £35million-ranked protector.
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The record affirms that Liverpool linger in for Royal abode captain Guehi and also Ajax young adult Jorrel Hato, which owns urged Howe’s side to attractiveness elsewhere — and also they’ve ‘rotated to Balerdi’.
On the nightclub’s focus in Elanga, it’s claimed they ‘linger attentive to a chance bargain’, with the Woodland winger ‘in the process’ of matching reps.
An additional holistic transfer target is West Ham winger Mohammed Kudus, that is also pined by Tottenham Hotspur.
Previously to Balerdi — and also a enjoyable reality: a Marseille fan went on malnourishment strike in 2023 in a proposition to derive him to pass up the nightclub.
L’Equipe swathed the tale at the time, proverb that ‘a negative fan owns launched a malnourishment strike and also a rest-in in front of La Commanderie, Marseille’s mentoring centre, for Balerdi to pass up’.
Balerdi joined Marseille from Borussia Dortmund in 2020 and also took his time to become a inalienable gamer in France.
Shortly in the past the malnourishment strike, he missed the decisive fine in Marseille’s stun Coupe de France departure to lesser-league Annecy, was sent off against Strasbourg after 30 mins, and also was at fault being plentiful times in a 3-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain.
He owns certainly boosted offered that then, valuing a great 2024/25 project under Roberto De Zerbi.
The 26-year-ratty presently owns 8 Argentina caps and also administered 29 appearances throughout all contenders last period.
He also captains the French colossuses and also is under arrangement for another 3 years.
