Newcastle allegedly bid £1.5m for Forest’s Lewis McGugan (includes video)
Posted on July 8th, 2011 | 44 Comments |
Based on absolutely no evidence that I can find, the Daily Mirror yesterday claimed that we’ve made a £1.5m bid for Nottingham Forest midfielder Lewis McGugan.
However, as Nottingham Forest are allegedly after Wayne Routledge (now that QPR seem to have given up on him), maybe some sort of deal could be struck with Steve McClaren’s mob.
Lewis McGugan is 22, 5ft 9in high and plays in the centre of midfield as an ‘attacking midfielder’. He has been at Nottingham Forest from youth through to senior career and has scored 31 goals and provided 26 assists in 156 games. Last season was particularly good for McGugan with 13 goals and 16 assists in 45 games.
He’s also played for England’s under 17’s (2 goals in 10 games) and under 19’s (no goals in 4 games).
If by some freak accident the Daily Mirror has got this one right, I would presume he’s ‘one for the future’ given the number of players we already have in contention for midfield places.
A £1.5m bid seems fairly a fairly trivial amount given the amount we’ve accrued from player sales. If I may observe something on this whole £35m+ thing, much are the claims that the money will be ‘reinvested’ in the club on things like wages and such as well as funding transfers. However, don’t forget that we’ve also saved on the wages of Carroll and Nolan which, I would hope, would account for a fair portion of what we are paying Cabaye, Marveaux and Ba.
Here’s a video of McGugan in action last season (the video seems to be a bit spluttery at the start but then clears its throat and gets on with things):
He looks decent enough from that video, although ‘highlights’ videos can be deceptive as they only show, well, the highlights. It’s unlikely that such a video would feature him poking a goalkeeper in the eye or falling flat on his mush after stepping on the ball (which is a trick I could perform admirably in my footballing days).
I may have mentioned the £35m in this article but I think I got away with it!
He makes it look easy in the championship, could he step up?