Newcastle must sign Ben Brereton Diaz

Newcastle United have loved an exceptional begin to the season and are at the moment sitting within the Champions League locations within the Premier League desk after 13 matches.

The Magpies have solely misplaced one of their video games within the high flight to this point, a file solely Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal can match, and have the perfect defensive file within the league with ten conceded.

Their terrific kind this season doesn’t imply that there isn’t any room for enchancment, nevertheless, and Dan Ashworth might dip into the market to enhance the squad within the January switch window.

For instance, the huge areas could also be addressed as there was an absence of manufacturing from a few of the gamers at the moment occupying these positions in Eddie Howe’s crew.

Jacob Murphy has performed in all 13 of the membership’s Premier League video games, beginning 4 occasions, and has solely produced one purpose, while failing to help any strikes. He has averaged a SofaScore ranking of 6.64 and created 0.5 probabilities per sport, which exhibits that he’s struggling to ship high quality within the ultimate third on a constant foundation.

One participant the membership are reportedly eager about signing is Blackburn Rovers attacker Ben Brereton Diaz and Ashworth should now launch a swoop as it might enable him to ditch Murphy from the squad.

Would Brereton Diaz be an excellent signing?

It has been reported that the Championship aspect need to preserve maintain of the Chile worldwide within the January switch window and are joyful to lose him on a free switch subsequent summer time if it signifies that they’ll get pleasure from his abilities in the course of the second half of this season.

Consequently, Newcastle should both persuade Rovers to vary their thoughts in January or wait to signal him for nothing forward of the 2023/24 marketing campaign.

Whether or not he arrives this season or subsequent, he could possibly be an enormous improve on Murphy out on the left flank. The 23-year-old, who Jaquob Crooke as soon as dubbed a “superstar“, has scored eight objectives and created four ‘large probabilities’ for his teammates in 18 Championship outings this time period.

Rovers boss Jon Dahl Tomasson stated that he scores “beautiful goals” and his kind on the high finish of the pitch just isn’t a flash within the pan after he loved a unbelievable 2021/22 marketing campaign.

The ahead plundered 22 objectives and three assists, creating three ‘large probabilities’, in 37 league appearances for Blackburn final time period, with these statistics displaying that he has the potential to supply an enormous purpose menace from out huge.

He additionally has the scope to develop additional and enhance underneath Howe’s teaching on the age of 23, 4 years youthful than the underperforming Murphy.

Subsequently, signing the Blackburn gem would enable Ashworth to bin the previous Norwich attacker as he’s not doing sufficient in entrance of purpose to justify his place within the squad, when a participant like Diaz may are available and supply extra high quality within the ultimate third.