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Newcastle bid for Djalo, according to agent.

July 10th, 2010 | 28 Comments |

Toon target Djalo?
Toon target Djalo?
It appears that Newcastle are going head to head with Tottenham Hotspur in a race to capture the signature of Sprting Lisbon forward Yannick Djalo.

The players agent claims that both Newcastle and Tottenham have lodged bids in the region of £4 million for the Portuguese striker, although the fact that I am about to quote an agent instantly makes me highly sceptical of this apparent bid.

Both bids are short of what Sporting Lisbon value the player at although Djalo’s agent, Lionel da Silva, claims that it wouldn’t take too much extra to force Sporting’s hand into accepting a bid for the player. We have been linked with Djalo before although that interest surfaced at a time when most of us were still in the dark regarding that whole “capital outlay” nonsense. The purchase of James Perch seems to indictae that we do at least have a small pot of cash to use and hopefully that can be extended a bit more for further reinforcements (more…)