10 Players Newcastle Have ALREADY Missed Out On This Summer

8. Danny Ings

Proof of transfer rumour: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2856753/Danny-Ings-interesting-Newcastle-striker-prepares-face-admirer-Alan-Pardew.html Probably one Newcastle should have sewn up before the England U21 striker became a Premier League player with Burnley last season... The forward was linked with a move to Newcastle for much of the first half of the campaign as his contract at Turf Moor neared its end, but as he got more accustomed to life in the big time and started to score more and more goals, those rumours fizzled out into nothingness. The 22-year-old joined Liverpool on a free right at the start of the window which indicated United were never realistically in the frame for his signature. Not since the days of Craig Bellamy have The Magpies had someone with genuine pace and quality that would strike fear into every Premier League defence. Peter Løvenkrands was ok, but he was more a Championship player than a Premier League one... Ings would have been a huge hit on Tyneside before inevitably being sold for a huge profit a couple of years down the line. It's arguably best for all parties that he didn't sign as it saves us all that tonne of pain we've gone through with the likes of Yohan Cabaye and Demba Ba's departures in recent years....