Whilst fans understand that a lot of factors go into making a transfer actually happen, it seemed unthinkable that Newcastle wouldn’t at least have instantly put in a bid for Kenedy and tested Chelsea to see whether they are willing to sell a player who is never going to get regular first team football there.
However, Chelsea have told Ashley that the asking price is £20m.
Newcastle have been asking clubs about players and had ‘quotations’ back…but at some point, and quickly, you have to take action and agree a quote to fix the roof, before it ends up falling down around you.
The World Cup kicking off was always going to be a landmark for Newcastle fans to be taking stock of new signings made so far, exactly four weeks into the transfer window and compared to the end of last season NUFC are actually weaker, with Slimani and Kenedy going back to their clubs and Gamez & Haidara released.