Regardless where he ends up, the fact remains ... he's going!
And today we hear Mike Ashley is still holding out for the £100m asking price (to sell the club) and NOBODY is willing to pay it.
So ... in simple terms, with a big piece of chalk and a 50ft blackboard ... why doesn't Ashley accept the £80m that is on offer ... and take the transfer fees paid for Oba Martins and Bassong ... and get the f*** out of St James' Park, never to return again!!!
Simple? Practical? Everyone happy?
SO WHY NOT DO IT?
The Cameroon international has now completed his medical at the north London club and is ready to put pen to paper.
Bassong had been desperate to get out of St James’s Park and his agent Chris Hentoray has been in England over the last couple of days plotting a move away from Tyneside.
And a transfer looked even more certain after the French-born defender was fined a fortnight’s wages by Newcastle United for refusing to travel to Dundee at the weekend.