‘There was a refusal’ – 26-year-old personally rejected Newcastle United transfer, many big clubs like him

Following the injury to Nick Pope, who will miss the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder, Newcastle United were looking for a new goalkeeper.

Martin Dubravka and Loris Karius are the two next men up, and with the Magpies never signing anyone, they will do the job until the end of the campaign.

However, as TuttoMercatoWeb reveal on Thursday, there were attempts from Newcastle to sign someone: Michele Di Gregorio.

The 26-year-old Italian shot stopper is currently one of the big stars in Serie A, impressing with AC Monza, to the point where a lot of the bigger teams in the league want him.

TuttoMercatoWeb explain AC Milan would move for him if they were to sell Mike Maignan, with Juventus in a similar position were Wojciech Szczesny find himself on his way out.

With Napoli already securing Elia Caprile and Inter Milan happy with Yann Sommer, it was abroad, specifically the Magpies that an offer seemingly came in.

The outlet explain that, ‘on Di Gregorio’s part, there was a refusal to go’ to Newcastle.

It’s not explained exactly when that happened, but considering the recent events in Eddie Howe’s squad, it’s fairly easy to assume it would have been last month.