Your Newcastle United transfer round-up for Sunday, April 17.
Botman latest
The website calciomercato.com has added a little nugget to the ongoing saga of who Sven Botman will be playing for next season. The Lille centre-back, who was chased by Newcastle United in January, is reportedly about to accept terms to sign for AC Milan and the website added some detail.
As claimed by the site, translated by Google: "The news is that four days ago Paolo Maldini [now working as technical director at AC Milan] contacted Botman's agents to reiterate the Devil's will to close the operation shortly. After all, qualification for the next Champions League is now a pure formality, and the necessary resources are not lacking. Important updates are expected in the coming weeks."
Survival of the fittest over Darwin Nunez
The battle to sign Darwin Nunez is continuing and the Daily Mail went big this weekend with a claim that Newcastle have submitted a £49m bid. The unconfirmed rumour came from French website footmercato.net, which said a host of teams are interested in the striker, who plays for Portuguese side Benfica..
The French website wrote, translated by Google: "The Magpies have thus transmitted an offer of more than €60 million to the leaders of the Portuguese club to offer the services of the Uruguayan international striker."
Free Belotti
Newcastle's name have been floated again in relation to the 28-year-old Italian striker Andrea Belotti, according to website tuttomercatoweb.com. The Italy international, who is currently playing for Torino and has five goals in 18 appearances this season, would be available on a free transfer.
The website wrote: "In terms of timing, Nice is the club that moved first, but the hypothesis is increasingly remote with qualification for the Champions League ever further away. From England the candidacies of Newcastle and West Ham remain standing."
