One Newcastle man is not going to be part of Eddie Howe’s squad to tackle Wolves this weekend after it emerged he had turned down the possibility to depart the membership in the summertime, and now dangers being frozen out totally.
Tough summer season for Newcastle amid monetary truthful play considerations
It was not the switch window that any at St James’ Park would have envisioned amid main considerations of breaching the Premier League’s monetary truthful play laws and a failure to lure high expertise to Tyneside.
The June thirtieth deadline to adjust to FFP noticed the Magpies pressured into the gross sales of younger duo Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson, fetching £65m for the pair, as Minteh joined Brighton for £30m and Anderson accomplished a £35m transfer to Nottingham Forest.
It ended hypothesis that the membership may very well be pressured into promoting considered one of their established first crew stars amid hyperlinks between Anthony Gordon and Liverpool, in addition to Alexander Isak and Arsenal. Talking over the summer season, midfielder Sean Longstaff admitted it felt as if everybody was up on the market because the Magpies rushed to boost funds.
“We’re not silly, we’d seen all of the stuff with monetary truthful play (FFP) and who was on the desk and who wasn’t on the desk. At that time, the way in which it appeared, everybody had their value and sadly for Elliot and for us, he was the one who needed to go”, he informed the Athletic.
Participant | Price |
Odysseas Vlachodimos | €23.6m |
William Osula | €11.6m |
Lewis Corridor | €33m |
John Ruddy | Free |
Lloyd Kelly | Free |
However regardless of complying, it remained a really quiet summer season for Newcastle, with Lloyd Kelly arriving on a free switch and William Osula becoming a member of from Sheffield United, whereas goalkeeping duo John Ruddy and Odysseas Vlachodimos additionally arrived they usually formally made Lewis Corridor’s mortgage transfer from Chelsea everlasting.
Newcastle man to be frozen out
Now, in a peculiar if predictable flip of occasions, The Athletic report that summer season signing Odysseas Vlachodimos is ready to be frozen out of the squad simply months after changing into the most costly goalkeeper within the membership’s historical past.
The Greek shot-stopper technically arrived from Nottingham Forest for £20m as a part of the deal to ship Anderson to the Metropolis Floor, however his arrival was solely ever a necessity to stability the books at each golf equipment, regardless of ostensibly being a separate deal from Anderson’s.
Nonetheless, he has not been part of any of the membership’s matchday squads to this point this season, and The Athletic declare that he “is not going to be chosen for the sport towards Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday”. Certainly, they add that he “has already been informed he can depart St James’ Park, a chance he declined”.
In the meantime, it’s claimed that “the prospects of Vlachodimos taking part in for Newcastle any time quickly are mentioned to be virtually non-existent”, which can depart him taking house £50,000 every week for the rest of his keep on Tyneside with out ever being concerned in aggressive motion. Given the character of the deal, it’s a unhappy however totally unsurprising flip of occasions for Greece’s no.1.
