bluebud
Player Valuation: £35m
If the 777 deal completes it will be interesting to see how we use the multi club ownership format to develop players in the future. Having partnerships with clubs like Standard and Genoa we can offer these young players a development path like Branthwaites’s at PSV but in house.He's 18 next month and Doucoure will have 1.5 years on his deal.
I did say 'backup', not 'rotation' so when Doucoure's deal expires Uzun would be 19.5 years old.
If over the next 1.5 years if he develops well then I'm not sure what the issue would be about his age now?
Ref Genoa, I saw over the weekend on the BBC gossip page that Newcastle are interested in a CB from them, a 21 year old Romanian, Radu Dragusin. Signed for €5.5m last summer from Juve, linked now for €35m. Firstly, that’s great business, they also took De Winter from Juve on loan at the same time. Secondly, can we have him?), next summer we’ll be looking to sign a CB, will the new ownership group want to strengthen a rival? It will be interesting to see how closely they see the clubs in the group working together.