Newcastle must sign Hakan Calhanoglu

Newcastle United have a few days left to finish their remaining enterprise in the summertime switch window…

The Magpies have introduced in four players thus far and should look to additional strengthen their squad earlier than Thursday night time’s deadline.

Nick Pope, Sven Botman, Alexander Isak and Matt Targett have all come via the door on everlasting offers, and a inventive midfielder seems to be on their to-do record.

It was just lately reported that the Toon are eyeing up a swoop to signal Hakan Calhanoglu from Inter as an alternative choice to Lucas Paqueta, who has signed for Premier League rivals West Ham.

Inter are said to be open to promoting any participant for the correct worth, and that would open the door to a late deal for the Turkey worldwide.

Newcastle should now land the £150k-per-week wizard as Eddie Howe may land his personal model of Manchester Metropolis magician Kevin De Bruyne by bringing him to St James’ Park.

The Belgian just lately caught the attention towards the Magpies as he created three ‘large probabilities’ and registered one help within the 3-3 draw earlier this month.

He’s a world-class creator who can unlock any defence together with his beautiful vary of passes and intelligence in possession. Out of the entire gamers in his place in Europe’s prime 5 leagues over the past twelve months, De Bruyne ranks within the 99th percentile for assists, xG assisted and shot-creating actions per 90.

This reveals that he is without doubt one of the greatest gamers in his place on the subject of constantly creating high-quality probabilities.

Calhanoglu may are available at St James’ Park and supply an analogous degree of creativity after catching the attention in Serie A.

His former Milan supervisor Stefano Pioli, who as soon as hailed him as “distinctive”, beforehand heaped reward on his build-up play, saying: “Calhanoglu is a frontrunner of this group. He’s a frontrunner on the pitch, he’s an clever participant. These days, now we have confronted groups which have closed the areas and due to this fact, typically, I’ve needed to decrease him although I need to hold him excessive.

“He is aware of methods to marry completely with the sport of his teammates. I’ve nice respect for him and with clever gamers, you possibly can play nice video games. He has the qualities to have some extra targets.”

Like De Bruyne, the Turkish gem ranks within the 99th percentile for assists, xG assisted and shot-creating actions per 90 out of the entire gamers in his place in Europe’s prime 5 leagues over the past twelve months, with FBRef additionally itemizing the pair as being stylistically related.

The 28-year-old may due to this fact be a world-class creator for Newcastle, as he has confirmed over the past yr to be among the best attacking midfielders round at slicing open defences and creating targets for his team-mates.

Newcastle should now push to land Calhanoglu within the remaining couple of days of the switch window as a way to give Howe his personal model of De Bruyne on Tyneside.