Rubbish Newcastle transfer news: 87 targets – 61 days to go

Welcome to our daily rubbish Newcastle transfer news service, featuring all the players NUFC are ‘buying’ (including proposed loan deals) this summer.

We will update each day and try to keep you abreast of all these exciting transfers that aren’t going to happen (as well as the handful that hopefully will…).

A bumper crop of 5 new names brings the running total up to 87 targets with 61 days remaining (8 days until the first friendly and 5 weeks until the start of the season).

To kick us off we have a strange one, with Mario Balotelli supposedly a target for Newcastle, the club said to have approached Liverpool with a view to a loan deal.

All sounds very dubious and the source is the Winner Sports website who don’t have a great track record when flying their transfer stories.

Balotelli scored one Premier League goal last season so I suppose he wouldn’t feel out of place if he lined up with Emmanuel Riviere…

The same source (Winner Sports) also claim that Newcastle want Manchester United’s Jonny Evans, the only person in professional football who wants us to believe that he doesn’t know when he is spitting! As well as his ‘spat’ with Papisse Cisse and the subsequent suspension, Evans picks up injuries regularly.

His injury record (and being pretty poor/average) has meant that Jonny Evans has only started 29 Premier League matches over the last two years.

Next up is London born but Ghanaian international, Albert Adomah. The Middlesbrough winger has scored 18 goals over the course of the last two seasons and been arguably their star player in that period. Their failure to get up through the play-offs may mean that the 27 year old will now look to get to play in the Premier League for the first time, via another club.

Over in Italy, Tuttosport claim that Newcastle are interested in Mauricio Isla.

The versatile player can operate all down the right hand side of the pitch as full-back, wing-back or wide midfield. A Chilean international he was on loan at QPR last season and Juventus are reported to be keen to sell.

Finally today, striker Chris Martin makes the list. The 26 year old forward is the latest Derby County player that Steve McClaren is keen to be reunited with, according to speculation.

Under McClaren, Martin has scored 40 goals in the last two years in the Championship, The striker has moved ferquently between clubs but has played almost exclusively outside the Premier League, having started only six games in the top tier.

To try and keep some kind of order, the players are listed in alphabetical order by surname, then first/other names, the club they are/were at when Newcastle were linked with them, then finally the club they have ended up signing for (if any).

Please let us know of any that we have missed out as we go along and especially if you notice if any on the list actually sign for a club and we haven’t added that information.

Abdennour Aymen (Monaco) Defender

Adomah Albert (Winger) Middlesbough

Aubameyang Pierre-Emerick (Borussia Dortmund) Striker

Austin Charlie (QPR) Striker

Ayew Andre (Marseille) Winger ***SIGNED FOR SWANSEA 10 JUNE

Bacca Carlos (Sevilla) Striker

Ba Demba (Besiktas) Striker

Balotelli Mario (Liverpool) Striker

Bamford Patrick (Chelsea) Striker

Beck Andreas (Hoffenheim) Defender

Berahino Saido (West Brom) Striker

Berisha Veton (Viking) Striker

Bolasie Yannick (Crystal Palace) Winger

Byram Sam (Leeds) Defender

Cabaye Yohan (PSG) Midfielder

Carroll Andy (West Ham) Striker

Chester James (Hull) Defender

Cissako Yarouba (Monaco) Defender

Cleverley Tom(Manchester United) Midfielder ***SIGNED FOR EVERTON 5 JUNE

Cole Ashley (AS Roma) Defender

Concha David (Racing Santander) Winger

Cousins Jordan (Charlton) Midfielder

Dawson Craig (West Brom) Defender

Deeney Troy (Watford) Striker

Denayer Jason (Manchester City) Defender

Dost Bas (Wolfsburg) Striker

Downing Stewart (West Ham) Winger

Dunk Lewis (Brighton) Defender

Dyer Nathan (Swansea) Winger

Elmohamady Ahmed (Hull) Winger

Evans Jonny (Manchester United) Defender

Fer Leroy (QPR) Midfielder

Fox Morgan (Charlton) Defender

Furlong Darnell (QPR) Defender

Gameiro Kevin (Sevilla) Striker

Gignac Andre-Pierre (Marseille) Striker ***SIGNED FOR TIGRES UANL 18 JUNE

Ginnelly Josh (Shrewsbury) Winger

Gomez Joe (Charlton) Defender ***SIGNED FOR LIVERPOOL 20 JUNE

Gueye Idrissa (Lille) Midfielder

Heaton Tom (Burnley) Goalkeeper

Hernandez Abel (Hull) Striker

Hughes Will (Derby) Midfielder

Ighalo Odion (Watford) Striker

Ince Tom (Hull) Winger

Ings Danny (Burnley) Striker ***SIGNED FOR LIVERPOOL 8 JUNE

Isla Mauricio (Juventus) Defender/Wing-back/Midfielder

Juanmi (Malaga) Striker ***SIGNED FOR SOUTHAMPTON 17 JUNE

Kante Ngolo (Caen) Midfielder

Keogh Richard (Derby) Defender

Konate Moussa (FC Sion) Striker

Konoplyanka Yehven (Dnipro) Winger

Krejci Ladislav (Sparta Prague) Winger

Lambert Rickie (Liverpool) Striker

Lingard Jesse (Manchester United) Midfielder

Matip Joel (Schalke) Defender

Martin Chris (Derby County) Striker

Mbemba Chancel (Anderlecht) Defender

McClean James (Wigan) Winger ***SIGNED FOR WEST BROM 22 JUNE

Mere Jorge (Sporting Gijon) Defender

Mings Tyrone (Ipswich) Defender ***SIGNED FOR BOURNEMOUTH 26 JUNE

Mitrovic Aleksandar (Anderlecht) Striker

N’Doye Dame (Hull) Striker

Ocampos Lucas (Monaco) Winger

Pato Alexandre (Sao Paolo) Striker

Payet Dimitri (Marseille) Midfielder ***SIGNED FOR WEST HAM 26 JUNE

Pedranza Alfonso (Villarreal) Winger

Promes Quincy (Spartak Moscow) Winger

Ramirez Sandro (Barcelona) Striker

Remy Loic (Chelsea) Striker

Richards Micah (Manchester City) ***SIGNED FOR ASTON VILLA 17 JUNE

Rhodes Jordan (Blackburn) Striker

Rolan Diego (Bordeaux) Striker

Sakho Diafra (West Ham) Striker

Sako Bakary (Wolves) Winger

Sam Sidney (Shalke) Striker

Sanson Morgan (Montpellier) Midfielder

Schar Fabian (Basel) Defender

Sepe Luigi (Napoli) Goalkeeper

Thauvin Florian (Marseille) Winger

Townsend Andros (Tottenham) Winger

Van Ginkel Marco (Chelsea) Midfielder

Veltman Joel (Ajax) Defender

Wass Daniel (Evian) Midfielder

Wijnaldum Georginio (PSV) Midfielder

Wilson James (Manchester United) Striker