Newcastle United’s pursuit for Sporting star Manuel Ugarte today gets a small update from the Portuguese media.
Newspaper Record, who mentions the interest from the Magpies in the signing, brings good and bad news about the player’s potential move to the Premier League.
Let’s start with the bad this time, which is what the piece’s headline is all about. They claim that Sporting manager Ruben Amorim has asked Ugarte to stay for another year.
The coach believes the player to be a crucial piece for Sporting and thinks he could wait for another season before moving to a top league.
The Newcastle target may be calm about the situation, and accepts what Amorim has to say, but he also wants to listen to his agents in the coming weeks.
Jorge Chijane, the player’s representative, is arriving in Lisbon next week and will speak to Sporting about the ‘market solutions’ there are for the 22-year-old.
Record writes that Newcastle are one of the clubs who ‘promise’ the Lions they will go through with their bid ‘intentions’, even though the initial request is a little salty.
The Lions initially indicate the €60m release clause Ugarte is protected by. But they’re ready to listen to what interested clubs have to say.
