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Charles N’Zogbia – wants to return to Newcastle United

The local Evening Chronicle is reporting it believes Newcastle are in the hunt for French International winger Charles N’Zogbia, who is said to be very keen to rejoin his former club.

And Sources close to the Frenchman are saying that Sunderland are struggling to put together a package to get the player Frenchman to Wearside – which is more good news.

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Charles is again being reported to be wanting to return to his former club, and with French speaking Demba Ba, Sylvain Marveaux and Yohan Cabaye having just been signed, it will be even more good reason for N’Zogbia to return to Tyneside.

Aston Villa are also being linked with an interest in the Wigan winger, but if this news is true, it would appear Newcastle are in the lead to sign the twice capped French International.

There were reports recently that Newcastle were thinking the Frenchman would be too expensive with say £9M in transfer fees, and £60K/week in wages, so this would be good news that Newcastle are perhaps ready to spend some of their money this summer.

Charles played 158 times for Newcastle from September, 2004 through January, 2009 when he was sold to Wigan for £6M plus Ryan Taylor coming the other way, and he also scored 9 goals for the Magpies.

While N’Zogbia was a problem over th last 18 months of his time at Newcastle we still think this signing would be a good one for Newcastle fans, because he looks to have got better while at Wigan, and anybody who wants to come back to Tyneside cannot be all bad, surely.

And here’s a recent poll we published on June 7th asking Newcastle fans about Charles coming back to Newcastle, and at the time the price was said to be £12M, but it’s now likely to be at least £3M less than that:

Is Charles N'Zogbia Worth £12M to Newcastle?

 

I don't think we're going to get him, wanting too much money I think

 

We did joke about the possibility of a sell on clause when we sold him to Wigan as well as any outstanding fees Wigan may owe NUFC.

£12 million seems too high though.

 

Not worth 12mil and unless he's dropped his wage demands then to be honest I dont want him

 

I'd sign him for £12M but I'd rather we spent that on a striker

 

I think this is just a rehash of a story that popped up on a couple of sites last week. I remember reading he was open to a return to the Mags, but I also think both Newcastle and Sunderland wont match his demands.

Villa or Scousers I reckon. Probably Villa.

 

This, although no idea who we'll go for if we don't get Erdinc or Sturridge, wouldn't mind Shane Long.

 

I hope you guys get Long. We cant afford to risk 2 Championship strikers for 20 million now Wickham is official :/

 

Would rather take Long for half the price although Wickham is younger and has a lot of potential

 

We should offer them Raylor back and we should get a reduction from any sell-on clauses so £10m + Raylor wouldn't be too bad although can't see DW accepting that, he'll want to mug MA off. Downsides of that are that Raylor will probably score against us again next season and it's ANOTHER midfielder.

 

We need another bastard striker! not a midfielder
still wouldn't complain if we pulled it off though can see him going to Vile.

 

Yep, striker please, no idea who it will be though if it isn't Erdinc.

 

We dont seem to be linked to many strikers which is quite worrying really. I dont want that 'little donkey' either!

 

When does our pre-season tour of the USA start?

Because I heard that Pardew wants to have his signings in by the time they get to the US (or at least most of them)

 

Wed 20.07.2011 Sporting Kansas City (a) @ Livestrong Sporting Park, 7.30pm Friendly.

Sat 23.07.2011 Orlando City (a)
@ Citrus Bowl, 7.30pm. Friendly.

Tue 26.07.2011 Columbus Crew (a)
@ Crew Stadium, 7.30pm. Friendly.

 

I'd take him for 10 million, seeing as it looks like he wants to play for the club, and Marveaux might be injury prone.

 

I'd like to see us spend a decent sum on one, maybe £10m, but wouldn't know where to start. Hopefully something out of the blue

 

I cant see us spending more then 6mill unfortunately

 

Well then I think we may struggle to get anyone that good