The Newcastle fans in the Transfer Tavern aren’t happy with their club’s valuation of World Cup-bound striker, Aleksandar Mitrovic. The club have slapped a £20 million price tag on his head, according to Sky Sports News, but the fans aren’t happy as they’d rather of waited until after the World Cup to give the striker a valuation.
Mitro’s on fire @NUFC set £20m price tag for Serbia’s World Cup striker Aleksandar Mitrovic
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— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) 14 June 2018
The decision to give the Serbian striker a valuation before the World Cup could be one that comes back to bite the club. Mitrovic has a good goalscoring record for his national side and with three games in the group stages against Costa Rica, Switzerland and Brazil plus whatever may come afterwards for the striker, a good tournament for the star could see clubs come swooping in.
If this is the case and Mitrovic bags a couple of goals with the whole world watching, a fee of just £20 million could look like peanuts for some of Europe’s bigger clubs, making Newcastle look silly for pricing up their man prior to the tournament. Either way, Newcastle will be looking to offload the young hot-headed striker and with Fulham likely chasing his signature after his successful loan spell last season, the £20 million going into St James Park could prove very useful, at least.
You can read our resident Geordies’ verdict on their club’s valuation of Mitro here:
Wait until after the Word Cup. Might be put to £30m by then.
— Stephen Quadling (@squadling72) June 14, 2018
If he has gr8 world cup that will double
— Redtillimdead99 (@redtillimdead99) June 14, 2018
Could turn out to be the worst possible decision this summer.
— . (@nonsocialsteve) June 14, 2018
£20m? Why so cheap? Shouldn’t we be waiting until after the world cup? Another own goal by @nufc
— Sal Sheikh (@SalSheikh69) 14 June 2018
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feels light
— 3KeepyUps♟ (@3KeepyUps) June 14, 2018
The Newcastle fans in the Tavern can feely rightly aggrieved by their club’s decision to jump the gun and slap a price tag on Mitrovic, as they could be set to lose out if the striker goes on to do great things this summer.
Newcastle fans – thoughts?
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