The Times reports that Newcastle United will attempt a triple January swoop for Inter pair Marcelo Brozovic and Stefan de Vrij, plus Lazio goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha.
The Premier League club is fighting relegation, but after the £305m take-over from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) last month, they are now ready to spend big on the transfer market.
According to the Times of London newspaper, three of their main targets are in Serie A.
These include a pair of star names at Inter, midfielder Brozovic and centre-back De Vrij.
However, while Brozovic in theory could be available as his contract is set to expire at the end of the current campaign, De Vrij would be a very different proposition.
Both are only prepared to leave Inter for a significant step up in their ambitions, so fresh from a Scudetto victory and in a good position to progress into the Champions League Round of 16, they would not consider Newcastle United to be any kind of improvement.
The third target is Lazio goalkeeper Strakosha, who is currently second choice behind Pepe Reina.
He is only playing in the Europa League, where a costly howler gifted a 1-0 victory to Galatasaray.
Newcastle United are plotting a raid of Serie A in the first transfer window since their Saudi Arabia takeover.
The Inter Milan duo Stefan de Vrij and Marcelo Brozovic as well as Lazio’s Thomas Strakosha are among the club’s targets.
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Won’t be long till Serie A is a feeder league to the likes of Newcastrol GTX United. Sad to see these nothing clubs like them and Man City and PSG do what they want. UEFA has no control over these oil clubs.
Well serie a is being eaten up by American investment funds so dunno were in a position to talk. At the end of the day it might benefit serie A. Can’t fight the changes so might as well embrace it.
No! Please no. Please sign Ramsey and Rabiot instead, haha.
(PS. I doubt those Inter players would go to a relagation battler that is many years from the CL)
yes these inter players will stay for now but unless newcastle gets relegated this season every league becomes a feeder except psg and bayern for the epl
I doubt any of them would join Spurs, let alone Newcastrol LOL
@Ferban, it’s all relative. Isn’t it the same when in the 90s Milan and Inter were bankrolled by billionaires, Parma and Lazio (fraudulently) by Cirio and Parmalat, and Juventus (to this day) by the Fiat fortune? The difference is that in the last decade all the money/billionaires have been buying into English clubs and PSG. People tend to have no perspective. I’m not sure the pendulum will swing back, because development tends to be like musical chairs. When the music stops you’re left with whatever seats there are. The premier league is almost uniquely positioned to take advantage of investment. The stadiums sell out, more to the point stadiums are easy to develop, even more to the point it’s a much more capitalist country than Italy, and finally it’s an English speaking country with a cultural history that was exported to 1/5 of the globe. Rupert Murdoch recognized this and this is why he made that initial 1bn TV deal that set this off like 20 years ago. He knew that people in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia had an affinity for England and London, for English things. Then thus, boom, the league has 1bn to spread amongst the clubs, clubs then purchased higher profile players and then began to dominate in Europe, then subsequent larger TV deals because even more people are watching. It’s market development 101. This is unlikely to change any time soon.