{"id":549846,"date":"2020-04-20T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=549846"},"modified":"2020-04-20T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:21:02","slug":"report-newcastle-united-linked-with-arturo-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/04\/20\/report-newcastle-united-linked-with-arturo-vidal\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Newcastle United Linked With Arturo Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reports of a takeover continue to rumble on, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle United<\/a> seem set for a big change. Several big-name stars are being linked with a switch to the Magpies, with Chile midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/67cdbc0e\/Arturo-Vidal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturo Vidal<\/a> rumoured to be interested in swapping Spain for England under a certain condition.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle&#8217;s possible ambitions have been inciting many players to register their interest in joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League<\/a> outfit &#8211; of course, due to the benefits it may bring and the attractive competitive nature of the league. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> and Newcastle United are both suspected destinations of Vidal, according to Javier Gascon of Spanish outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/futbol\/fc-barcelona\/20200418\/48582875149\/manchester-united-newcastle-vidal.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mundo Deportivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Newcastle United Linked With Arturo Vidal<\/h2>\n<h3>Vidal&#8217;s Career<\/h3>\n<p>Vidal joined Barcelona from <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/054efa67\/Bayern-Munich\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayern Munich<\/a> in the 2018\/19 season. Also having represented <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/e0652b02\/Juventus\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juventus<\/a> from 2011\/12 to 2014\/15 when Bayern came calling, he is no doubt a top talent and has bags of experience when it comes to playing for elite status teams. His tough style and his patrol of the midfield with an iron fist added cover to any team&#8217;s defence.<\/p>\n<p>His trophy room includes his proof of being a four-time <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/serie-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serie A<\/a> winner, three-time <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/bundesliga\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bundesliga<\/a> winner, and one time <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/la-liga\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Liga<\/a> champ &#8211; is the Premier league next on his hit list?<\/p>\n<h3>Newcastle Bound?<\/h3>\n<p>Both Manchester United and Newcastle are possible landing destinations for the Chilean. According to Mundo Deportivo, Arturo has faith in the possible Newcastle revolution if the takeover happens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/11402530\/newcastle-allegri-boss-odds-slashed-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and Max Allegri is appointed manager<\/a> &#8211; the pair having spent a season together back at Juventus. Heavy hints show that Arturo Vidal will reject Manchester United to join Newcastle if things go smoothly in his favour.<\/p>\n<p>Also being surplus to requirements at Barcelona, Arturo&#8217;s contract is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/arturo-vidal\/profil\/spieler\/37666\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expire in 2021<\/a>, meaning the Catalans will be looking to sell the Chilean for a reduced price rather than losing him for nothing later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ScN-2NVqR2dmsOnTQFDmiA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1211015716\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ScN-2NVqR2dmsOnTQFDmiA',sig:'E3AQ-59mP22bzcKd3bGa7RKNbNB81Abn3QCgCZCh-7w=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1211015716',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reports of a takeover continue to rumble on, Newcastle United seem set for a big change. Several big-name stars are being linked with a switch to the Magpies, with Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal rumoured to be interested in swapping Spain for England under a certain condition. Newcastle&#8217;s possible ambitions have been inciting many players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3283,"featured_media":549876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1365,1267,3,28],"tags":[1630,464,142,116,40,136],"class_list":["post-549846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-barcelona","category-newcastle-united","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-arturo-vidal","tag-barcelona","tag-la-liga","tag-newcastle-united","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}