12 Things Newcastle Fans Need To Know About Chancel Mbemba

4. No One Appears To Know When His Birthday Is

That looks nice mind... Let's address the elephant in the room that made for global news a few years ago... Chancel Mbemba has four birthdays. That's right, he becomes part of one of the most exclusive of clubs in Newcastle United's history, joining the likes of Obafemi Martins and Lomana LuaLua as players that had their actual birth dates up in the air in the weeks leading up to their respective arrivals at St James' Park.

The defender was registered by his two first Congolese clubs as being born in 1988, according to documents obtained by CNN. Yet for an African Cup of Nations qualifier for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June 2011, he was listed as being born on November 30, 1991.

Meanwhile, the birth date recorded by Anderlecht is August 8, 1994, while just to complicate matters even further, that CNN article claims Mbemba himself thinks he was born sometime in 1990.

According to FIFA's official website, he was born on August 8, 1994, meaning Newcastle look to be close to signing a man nearing his 21st birthday and with his best years ahead of him.