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Arevalo to be offered to Newcastle in £2 million deal?

August 1st, 2010 | 97 Comments |

 Egidio Arevalo - Go west.
Egidio Arevalo - Go west.
Newcastle are being offered the chance to sign Uruguayan defensive midfielder Egidio Arevalo for £2 million, if press reports are to be believed.

The problem is that those press reports lay in The Sunday Sun, which means it’s highly unlikely to be true.

Still, there have been reports in the South American press all week about the move, which were brought to our attention by regular ‘blogger, Rangerman, so perhaps there is more than meets the eye to this rumour? But is the defensive midfield position a priority? By that I mean would Newcastle not be better off looking at other areas of the team first, like the wings for example? There is currently no cover there, which means that if either Wayne Routledge our Jonas Gutierrez are missing then we end up playing a central midielder out wide, which isn’t the best solution. (more…)