Newcastle United are taken with signing Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain when his contract expires on the finish of the season.
What is the newest on Oxlade-Chamberlain to Newcastle?
Based on the Each day Mail, Eddie Howe and co are mulling over finishing a swoop for the 29-year-old this summer season, trying to bolster the ranks with the ostensible exploits in Europe subsequent time period.
United are joined of their curiosity by fellow Premier League outfits Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion, with the latter allegedly taken with a January swoop earlier than discarding curiosity as a result of considerations over paying a payment for a participant out there for nothing in a matter of months.
The previous Arsenal gem has been at Anfield since finishing a £35m switch from north London in 2017 and has performed a job in triumphant campaigns in each the Premier League and Champions League, however has discovered sport time exhausting to return by throughout current years.
Ought to Newcastle signal Oxlade-Chamberlain?
Oxlade-Chamberlain is certainly a proficient ace, however he has didn’t get a grasp on his profession at Liverpool over current years. He was spectacular within the early phases of Klopp’s success on Merseyside however was detrimentally hindered by a knee harm in 2018 that restricted him to only two appearances within the 2018/19 marketing campaign.
Having scored 18 targets and supplied 15 assists from 145 outings for the Reds, he does certainly seem to have been deemed expendable as his contract dwindles to a halt, and if Howe tried to signal the £120k-per-week dud within the coming months, Oxlade-Chamberlain would flatter to deceive at St. James’s Park.
Beforehand branded “woeful” by the Telegraph’s Uche Amako, the one-time Southampton youth product would certainly replicate Chris Wooden’s ill-fated spell on Tyneside with a switch, with the veteran 70-cap New Zealand worldwide finishing a £25m transfer from Burnley final January.
Having plundered his riches at Turf Moor, Wooden failed to say his authority beneath Howe’s wing and managed to clinch simply 5 targets from 39 appearances, with journalist Josh Bunting remarking that the 31-year-old was “not suiting the fashion” carried out by Howe.
Equally, Oxlade-Chamberlain won’t gel cohesively with the thriving Magpies outfit; whereas Howe’s calls for for a hard-working and unrelenting system fits the Liverpool dynamo on the floor, his incapacity to stay match would doubtless hinder his possibilities of wedging with manner into beginning competition with regularity.
A flexible participant, the intrigue within the 35-cap England star doubtless centres round his aptitude throughout a raft of areas, bolstering the crew and offering contemporary dimensions from a mess of angles, however with 88 matches missed as a result of harm over his close to six years on Anfield, he’s merely not dependable sufficient to occupy a job within the formidable Newcastle crew.
