Local reporters offer transfer update after big claims that NUFC are close to sealing £13m signing
Just hours after Turkish reports claimed we'd had a £13m bid accepted to sign Besiktas star Oğuzhan Özyakup, North-East reporters Chris Waugh (Chronicle) and Miles Starforth (Gazette) have categorically denied claims he's set to sign.
The midfielder has been linked with a move to Tyneside over the past few months and the Chronicle have confirmed that he was a midfielder Newcastle had been scouting, however claims of a £13m bid being accepted appear to be wide of the mark.
Chris Waugh's latest piece does insist that Rafa Benitez is "determined to sign a creative midfielder this summer", but insists that Besiktas’ Ozyakup is not one of his top targets.
Here's what they've had to say in response to rumours that we'd had a bid accepted for the Turkish international:
https://twitter.com/ChrisDHWaugh/status/1003287180368908291
https://twitter.com/milesstarforth/status/1003286623340187649
It was fun while it lasted!
