Newcastle Transfers: 10 Big Deals Linked For January Already

8. Nicolas Gaitan

Linked By: Talksport According to Talksport, Newcastle have had Gaitan scouted on a number of occasions - though presumably not by the club's own scouts, given their furious commitment to scouring only five countries. If that's true they will have seen a skilful, quick wide-man - seemingly on the imagined shopping list if the links to Gaitan and Ayew are anything to go by - who would be relatively affordable thanks to his contract status. Chances? Probably zero. The original story linking the supposedly long-term attacking target even mentioned that Monaco are by far the more likely to sign him. With that sort of financial power, no amount of scouting the Argentinian is going to convince him to come to Newcastle to sit on the bench and watch Yoan Gouffran slog his guts out in the wrong position.