Newcastle United are looking to tie up TWO deals before the weekend - a one for Yoane Wissa from Brentford and another for Jacob Ramsey at Aston Villa.placeholder image
Newcastle United are looking to tie up TWO deals before the weekend - a one for Yoane Wissa from Brentford and another for Jacob Ramsey at Aston Villa. | Getty
Newcastle United hope to have both Yoane Wissa and Jacob Ramsey through the door this week.
NewcastleWorld understands a deal for Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey is very close to completion and should be announced in the coming days, but any debut could be complicated by the weekend opponents being the selling party. And joining the former England youth international through the door this week, Newcastle hope, is Yoane Wissa.
The pursuit of the Brentford forward has been a protracted affair, but with progress made on a Bees replacement, Wissa is finally set to get the green light to sign for the Magpies. And there is hope progress can be made on this deal, as well as Ramsey, in time for the weekend.
Getting one, or both, into the ranks for the weekend would go some way to making up for the continued absence of Alexander Isak in the United ranks, with the player sulking at the club’s training ground while he tries to push through a move to Liverpool.
NUFC transfer spending - £££
It would cap a quite remarkable week for the Magpies, should they pull off both deals, having already managed to land Malick Thiaw from AC Milan in a transfer widely reported elsewhere to be worth in the region of £30-35million.
Having already shelled out around £56m to land Anthony Elanga and Aaron Ramsdale on loan, adding the Thiaw deal to £75m we understand it’s expected to cost for Wissa and Ramsey, Newcastle United’s spending is up to around the £160m mark.
Alexander Isak to Liverpool?
Isak continues to train alone at Newcastle’s Benton training base. The player has been working with one coach, alone, hours after the rest of the Newcastle squad have left the facility.
That solitary existence has, to an extent, been self-inflicted, after a summer of bad behaviour. The player has clearly had his head turned by Liverpool early on and decided the club’s trip to Asia was not for him, calling it off due to a ‘thigh problem’. That has since cleared up, but after a stint keeping fit in Sociedad, the Swede returned to Tyneside for talks with Howe and his assistant Jason Tindall. After reaffirming his want to leave the club, he has been left to tick over by himself, with little to no contact with anyone else at the training ground.
Reports this week suggested the player has made it clear he will not play for Newcastle again, even if the window closes - a clear pressure tactic by the player and his reps to push United into doing a deal with Liverpool. It remains to be seen whether they will.
But the deal for Wissa is definitely not seen as one to directly replace Isak, although getting him in could ease that pressure. Wissa is seen as a Callum Wilson replacement and upgrade.
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