The expectation around what Newcastle can do now that it is the club with the highest purchasing power in world football is high. Initially, it has been confirmed that the magpies will have an initial budget of 220 million euros free to reinforce the workforce in the winter market.
There are already many names that sound around the black and white, among which world soccer stars such as Keylor Navas, Mauro Icardi, Edinson Cavani, Gareth Bale and Coutinho stand out. The last to join is Napoli’s star defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who, after a difficult season in the previous one, has regained his highest level this year.
According to information from The Sun, Newcastle want the African as the great reference and figure of their defense and they would be willing to open the portfolio in order to bring the signing of Kalidou to their ranks, and although it would not be for the rest of this cycle, it would be for the 2022-2023 season. At the time, Napoli demanded 89 million euros from Chelsea and United for their defender, although his current market value is 48 million euros, a figure that can be reduced in salary considerably by valuing his only year and a half of contract that will have in Italy from the first of January.