Transfer gossip: Jeremain Lens, Risse and some guy called Ings?!

It looks like the rumour mill is starting to gather pace as Newcastle have been linked with three players over the last 24 hours or so.

Two of them have been linked with us before, but one of them is a new name that, to my knowledge anyway, hasn't been linked with us before. That man is 18-year-old Bournemouth forward, Danny Ings who is also being linked with moves to Liverpool and West Ham.

The Winchester born forward has only made nine first team appearances for Bournemouth and is played in the withdrawn striker role. I would suggest that he would be one for the future if we did end up actually having any interest in him.

Jeremain Lens is another player who is being linked with us again after rumours of strong interest from us in the player over the summer. Nothing came of those rumours and Lens joined PSV, but with the Dutch club in financial trouble it could force them to sell the player who still has three years left to run on his deal.

At 23-years-old, Lens is the right kind of age for us to be interested in him. I expect that many of the players that we end up signing will be under-25, with the odd exception to that rule of course. Whether or not there is any truth in this remains to be seen however.

And finally, we are being linked with John Arne Risse again. Apparently Risse, who will be 31 in September, is being lined up to replace Jose Enrique. In my mind it is clear regurgitated crap though and has no merit behind it whatsoever.

So there you go. I don't know too much about the first two to be honest, but I do know that it's unlikely that we would be after the third!