Rabiot Spurs, Chelsea eye striker, and more

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It will be an interesting time at Newcastle United as they want to hold important internal discussions about how to replace Dan Ashworth. From what I heard, this is not something 100% clear yet and Newcastle want to take their time as they can’t make the wrong move…it’s crucial to continue with their project in the best way.

Callum Wilson also seems to be in a slightly uncertain transfer situation at Newcastle following a January saga involving Atletico Madrid. Still, Atletico are not currently in contact with Wilson or Newcastle. Their last contact was early January, and it was a clear no from Newcastle. So I’m not sure they will return, Atletico Madrid only considered that as an opportunity on loan for six months.

Fans also keep asking me about the future of David de Gea after he almost joined Newcastle. He was open to a transfer to Newcastle in November/December when they had a goalkeepers emergency but in the end they decided not to sign any new goalkeeper. Now we have a lot of transfer rumours every week, but there is no update, nothing is happening. He’s taking his time to see if right opportunity appears.

I’ve seen many reports about Sofyan Amrabat’s future as he’s on loan at Manchester United from Fiorentina, with a permanent transfer option for the summer of €20m. At the moment there has not been any communication from United to the player side about their decision. This will be decided later, it remains open. They already paid a big loan fee for Amrabat, so let’s see how they will decide to proceed.

In the January transfer window there were two clubs asking about the possibility to break the loan from Fiorentina to United, and to sign Amrabat on a new loan from January until the end of the season. My information is that the clubs were Juventus and Barcelona, but United said no.

Barca, you may remember, already wanted Amrabat a year ago, but it was a no from United. There was no intention from United to break that loan in the middle of the season, but let’s see what the club will decide by the end of the campaign.

Chelsea’s position on Mauricio Pochettino remains the same. They want to see…