Newcastle make bid worth over £17m to sign ‘superstar’ midfielder

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Newcastle United are now said to have made an official bid for Turkish sensation Arda Guler following talks with his family.

According to reports in Turkey from Fotomac, Newcastle and PSG have submitted bids of over £17million for the 18-year-old superstar.

Ajax are also interested in Arda Guler and have made a bid, however it’s understood that their proposal falls short of those placed by Newcastle and PSG.

Newcastle have held talks with Arda Guler’s family

Newcastle have held talks with Arda Guler’s family a couple of times regarding a move and remain very keen to bring the youngster labeled ‘the Turkish Messi‘ to the Premier League.

Arda Guler does have a release clause that activated when he reacted 1500minutes of game time last season which was said to be set at around £15.7million, so seeing that Newcastle and PSG have both submitted higher offers shows how fierce the competition is.

Fenerbahce are desperate to keep Arda on their books for another year, so perhaps the deals proposed by Newcastle and PSG offer a loan back to the Turkish club for next season as well as the seemingly extra money to sweeten the deal.

Newcastle simply must beat PSG to the signing of Arda Guler

It seems odd to bid more than what a player’s release clause is set at. It either suggests that reports of the figure in his clause, or the figure quoted in this report are wide of the mark, or as I said before, it’s an indicator of how highly regarded Arda Guler is.

Having watched a few clips of Arda online and after researching him for these articles on GBB, I have absolutely no issue with Newcastle paying over the odds to get this guy to the North East. He looks phenomenal.

We owe PSG one for the whole Hugo Ekitike thing last year, although karma got them back for us on that one really, but I’d love to beat them to Arda’s signature.