The transfer rumours are coming thick (though sometimes quite thin) and fast now. Here are the latest for Sunday, June 12.
Newcastle 'interested' in 16-year-old winger
This rumour surfaced earlier this week but bobbed up again in the Portuguese press this weekend. According to the report, Newcastle United are interested in 16-year-old Roger Fernandes, who is on the books at Braga.
He made six league appearances for the first team as a substitute last season. As Sport Witness pointed out, he also managed to bag two goals in that time, hence the attention.
The latest report linking him to Newcastle was on Portuguese website A Bola, which wrote, translated by Google: "Newcastle is the most recent interested in the hiring of Roger Fernandes and, according to data gathered by A BOLA, the business really has legs to walk. The English club is reformulating its staff and making a considerable investment in young promises of European football, with the Braga winger being one of the targets."
Take it with a pinch of salt.
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Magpies 'monitoring' Serie A's in-demand striker
Newcastle have been linked again to 23-year-old striker Gianluca Scamacca. The Italy international currently plays for Sassuolo, where he scored 16 goals last season, but he is being eyed up by AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain among others.
On Friday the Athletic reported: "In England, both Newcastle and West Ham are monitoring the situation. The front-runners at this stage are arguably Paris Saint-Germain, who have already held exploratory talks with Sassuolo."
Website West Ham Zone spotted a Gazetta dello Sport article which came out yesterday, which put a price of £34m on the striker. The article viewed the battle to sign him as between Milan and PSG.
West Ham Zone added: "Newcastle can easily match the asking price, but the Hammers must beat them in the race. He has age on his side to reach a top-class level in the future. "
Spurs fan site backs Botman bid
Shots fired from website The Spurs Web. The website is one of many places repeating a report that Sven Botman is stalling any deal with Newcastle because he wants to play in the Champions League.
Spurs Web wrote: "With the greatest respect to Newcastle, if clubs such as PSG, AC Milan and Spurs are keen to sign him, there’s no wonder he is dragging his heels in joining the Toon.
"A player of Botman’s quality should be playing in the Champions League, rather than heading up the start of a rebuild at Newcastle who are awash with money following their takeover."
