Kylian Mbappe seems to be playing games with Paris Saint-Germain over his future sparking speculation that a summer move could happen and Newcastle United could be interested.
As is now par for the course, as soon as a ‘world-class‘ star such as Kylian Mbappe looks to be getting itchy feet, they will immediately be linked with Newcastle due to our wealthy backers. This is despite the fact that everybody knows that FFP would hamper any such deal.
Which is exactly what Craig Hope of the Daily Mail said when he was asked about Mbappe to Newcastle.
Craig Hope doesn’t think Newcastle have the budget for Mbappe
Football Daily posted a clip on Twitter of Craig Hope speaking about the likelihood of Mbappe making a move to the Premier League where he said: “Where does he go? We would love, as reporters to see him come to the Premier League. You’re looking at Manchester United have been credited with an interest in the last 24 hours, Chelsea too but Newcastle United, that’s just not where they are at the moment.
“Yes one day in the future they want to be paying wages of upward of £200 – £250-£300,000 a week and big transfer fees like that, but the noises we’re getting at the moment is because they’ve spent £250million over three windows and front-loaded some of their spending with regards to the parameters of FFP it could be a summer where they spend somewhere in the region of £75-£100million. So as much as I’d love to see Kylian Mbappe playing in the region I cover, I don’t think it’s one for this summer”
Hope is doubling down on the idea that Newcastle will only spend £75million this summer there. While what he says does make sense in that PIF have already spent a £250million chunk of their Financial Fair Play constrained budget, there’s also a feeling that because of how quickly Eddie Howe has got the Magpies to the Champions League there’ll be more money made available.
Newcastle are a few years away from going mad in the transfer market yet
That being said, I don’t think anyone realistically expects Newcastle to be chasing these huge names so early in the project. The wages alone would cause too much of an issue with regards to how the club is operating.
I’m happy to wait before we start dominating in the transfer market. I like the idea of discovering hidden gems, or players who are doing great things in slightly lesser leagues and bringing them over to England to see if they can do it in the Premier League.
Let’s walk before we can run so we don’t end up doing what Chelsea did last season and spending half a billion pounds to finish in the bottom half of the league.
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