Bah Humbug: Manchester City set to sign another player this month linked with Newcastle United

 · January 21 2025, 10:30
Bah Humbug: Manchester City set to sign another player this month linked with Newcastle United
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Manchester City aren't messing around in January as Pep Guardiola looks to repair his broken squad that many pundits are already claiming to be out of the title race.

Having recently completed the signing of alleged Newcastle United target Abdukodir Khusanov, City are closing in on a deal for Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush who was also said to be of interest to Newcastle.

Obviously, knowing that Newcastle weren't interested in spending this month, the links were tenuous at best, especially Marmoush who was very unlikely to have been affordable for Newcastle in January.

Newcastle could maybe have found the money for Khusanov if they were truly interested, similarly, they were linked with Real Valladolid centre-back Juma Bah, but Fabrizio Romano believes he is also heading to Manchester.

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Juma Bah could be immediately loaned to RC Lens as part of the Manchester City deal

Romano believes that City could loan 18-year-old Bah straight out to RC Lens after acquiring Abdukodir Khusanov from them and building up a good relationship in the process.

We reported on the Juma Bah links but said at the time that we didn't really feel there was much truth to them from a Newcastle point of view.

However, seeing Manchester City snap up these players linked with us, it does suggest that we're fishing in the right waters if we want to increase the squad depth with quality additions.

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We can't wait for Newcastle to upgrade from window shopping to actually shopping

Of course, window shopping isn't going to add the numbers we need. At some point, we're going to have to actually bid for players and convince them to join the Toon Revolution.

That's if there's anyone left for us to buy once Manchester City and Chelsea have scooped everyone up.

And yes, once again, I did just pick up on this story purely to make that Bah Humbug joke again and I will apologise to nobody.

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