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SkySportsNews claimed on Sunday afternoon that Obafemi Martins was on Tyneside for transfer talks.
No confirmation of that from the club as yet.
Earlier, writing in the Sunday Mirror Brian McNally seemed certain that things were starting to gain momentum on the transfer front:
Newcastle United will today move dramatically closer to a £10million swoop for Inter Milan striker Obafemi Martins. Martins' agent Patrick Bastianelli will fly into Newcastle today to hold transfer talks with Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd.
And Newcastle are hopeful that they can thrash out a deal with both Martin’s representative and the Serie A club that will allow the powerful Nigerian international to move to Tyneside and help solve manager Glenn Roeder’s striking problems that were compounded by a serious injury to England World Cup star Michael Owen and the retirement of former skipper Alan Shearer.
The Magpies have also put a firm offer on the table for Real Madrid’s £2 million-rated Danish midfielder Thomas Graveson and Shepherd expects to have a definite answer from the Spanish giants in the next couple of days.
Scottish champions Celtic, who can offer Gravesen Champions League football this season, are also in negotiations with the Dane’s representatives, but Newcastle are confident they have the financial clout to see off the Parkhead club.
And the Toon’s French flop Jean-Alain Boumsong, an £8.5 million buy from Rangers 18 months ago, was last night close to a cut-price move to demoted Italian outfit Juventus.
Shepherd was locked in telephone talks yesterday with Juventus officials as he tried to hammer out a permanent deal that would take Boumsong to Serie B.Bundisliga club Hamburg are also eyeing Boumsong as well as Monaco.
But it is the swoop for Martins- who has also attracted attention from Portsmouth, Spurs and Valencia that will capture the imagination of the Toon Army.
The lightning fast 21-year-old, who can reputedly run the 100 metres in under 11 seconds, has found the back of the net 49 times for Inter since bursting into the Serie A side three years ago.
Martins didn’t join the rest of his team mates in a pre-season trip to Mallorca, sparking suggestions that he is on standby to fly to Tyneside if Shepherd can clinch the deal.
Inter are asking £12million for wantaway Martins, while Newcastle will start the bidding at around £8million. But the arrival of Hernan Crespo from Chelsea could persuade the San Siro giants to accept an offer in the region of £10 million.
Newcastle have been conducting their own inquiry into claims that Martins was actually 27 or 28, but there is growing evidence that the confusion was caused by a clerical error on the Nigerian Football Association’s website and that the striker was born in October 1984.
New Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill would like to take the Magpies winger James Milner back to the Midlands after last season’s loan spell and could tempt Newcastle with a £3million bid.
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