11 MORE Players Newcastle Have ALREADY Missed Out On This Summer

By Ross Tweddell /

6. Yevhen Konoplyanka

Another one of the more fanciful rumours that has came about this summer, mainly due to the attacker's reported £100,000 per week wage demands. A sum of money Newcastle will NEVER pay a player under Mike Ashley. Many sources claimed United were going head to head with Stoke City for the free agent, before the likes of Tottenham were linked his signature. However, despite all the reported interest from the Premier League, the Ukrainian international has agreed a move to Europa League winners Sevilla. For those of you who are thinking Yevhen who? Konoplyanka is a 45-cap international who has been named Ukrainian player of the year on three separate occasions. Accolades that would obviously convince Newcastle, and most other PL clubs for that matter, that it is a deal worth making. A return of 10 goals from those 45 Ukraine caps is also impressive €“ as is the eight strikes he netted in 39 appearances for Dnipro in 2014-15 as he helped the unfancied side to the Europa League final, where they narrowly lost 3-2 Sevilla. The 5ft 10in winger has been touted as one of Europe€™s most-promising youngsters in recent years and Liverpool supposedly met Konoplyanka€™s £16 million buyout clause in January 2014, only for Dnipro to refuse to allow him to leave. In 209 career appearances for Dnipro, for who he came through the youth ranks, Konoplyanka has netted 45 times.