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Big Sam closes on Duke and Tal
Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce has confirmed the club are close to signing Mark Viduka, whilst he also admits an interest in Tal Ben Haim.
The Middlesbrough striker is out-of-contract at The Riverside, but the Australian has shunned an offer to stay at Boro as well as other offers from Premiership and continental clubs.
Viduka is set to sign a three-year deal on Tyneside, to the delight of Allardyce.
"Mark is almost in the bag," Allardyce told the club's official website.
"It's been difficult because he has been on holiday, but we're nearly there.
"We hope to sort out a medical next week and then that will be done."
Allardyce also admitted that he was ready to make an offer to former charge Ben Haim - who is also out-of-contract at his ex-employers Bolton.
"Yes, I'm interested in Tal Ben Haim, he's a free agent and hopefully available," he said.
"He has got three or four years of experience in the Premiership and I know him inside out.
"We had a good working relationship, we grew in the Premiership together and I'm very interested in working with him again."
Allardyce is also looking forward to working with Joey Barton - whose arrival from Manchester City is expected to be confirmed shortly.
"The bottom line is I have got a great player," he said.
"The quality of the player is the most important thing. Sometimes they come with difficult characters and can be difficult to handle.
"But I have had players with worse reputations than Joey Barton's and I never found them to be a problem because of the way I communicate with them and the way they communicate with me.
"He came here because he wants to win things, and that is why I have come here. We have got the same ambitions. I am here to improve his career. He has my respect and he won't let me down.
"My side of the job is to temper the other difficulties he has run into in life, not so much on the field, but off the field. I have asked him, as a maturing young man in his mid-20s, to curb that side of his life and make sure he focuses on what he loves best.
"We want him to progress rapidly as a footballer at Newcastle and hopefully in the England set-up again because that's where he wants to be.
"He is good enough, but he has got to do a lot of work off the field to get back to that. I am confident I can handle him."
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