Newcastle United are reportedly willing to pay £60million or more for the transfer of Leicester City attacking midfielder James Maddison.
The England international has shone in the Premier League and earned a call-up to this winter’s World Cup after it became impossible for Gareth Southgate to ignore him any longer.
Now it looks like there’s growing speculation surrounding Maddison’s future this January, with Dean Jones telling Give Me Sport that he thinks Newcastle would be willing to invest big money to bring the Foxes playmaker to St James’ Park.
The Magpies are building something very exciting at the moment under Eddie Howe, and Maddison would arguably be the biggest signing of the lot since their takeover last year.
“Generally, they’ve been pretty careful with their spending,” Jones said.
“But they did splash out on Isak and they spent over £60million on him. I’m told that they would be willing to pay that for Maddison.”
Maddison is a proven Premier League player at the peak of his powers, and his quality and spark in attack could take this NUFC side to another level.
Newcastle already look to be challenging for the top four, but bringing in someone like Maddison could cement their place in those Champions League spots.
Leicester might accept £80m for Maddison in January but no less. You must understand they don’t see themselves as a feeder club for the Saudi state.
NUFC are not the Saudi State so stop the disingenuous silly statements. Our owners are sensible and steady people who won’t be taken for fools easily parted from huge sums of money by greedy crass money grabbing Clubs with over inflated ideas on how much their player may be truly worth.
Toon may well go in for Maddison with an improved offer from the price quoted in the summer but we won’t be harried into going over the value we set for such a player so stop dreaming of a big pay day and come back down to reality.
they will not pay 80m will be lucky if they push to 40 50m tops
Of course Leicester are a feeder club, to Man city, Man utd , Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Newcastle , Liverpool and probably West Ham 🙂 get over it
Saudi state it’s getting a bit boring change the record #TOONARMY
No we won’t David !
You’s lot just cant deal with it hahahahah
So many hypocrites.the saudis play a part in lot of peoples lives day in day out but the brainwashed idoits have no idea.grow up
Yes we are Saudi state United. But I don’t care getting spending and we can win the premiership
I don’t think we will ship either Maddison or Yuri in January- you may have to wait till summer! Also he’s worth more than 60million. We aren’t a feeder club anymore than other smaller, poorer clubs. Personally I really hope Newcastle make top four & disrupt the usual suspects.
80 mil and he’s yours
Your talking utter nonsense. Come back when you’ve won the premier League, fa cup, league cup and community shield.🤣