{"id":615532,"date":"2022-08-02T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615532"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:15:55","slug":"newcastle-united-leicester-city-james-maddison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/newcastle-united-leicester-city-james-maddison\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United Latest Offer for Leicester City&#8217;s James Maddison Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/newcastle-united-james-maddison-top-priority\/\" target=\"_self\">Newcastle United<\/a>&#8216;s offer of \u00a340 million for England ace James Maddison has been rejected by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/22\/levi-colwill-noni-madueke-matt-oriley-leicester\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a>, with the clubs some way apart in their valuation.<\/p>\n<h2>James Maddison Bid Rejected by Leicester<\/h2>\n<h3>Magpies&#8217; Bid Turned Down<\/h3>\n<p>James Maddison has been heavily linked with a move to the North-East, with Newcastle reportedly viewing the creative midfielder as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph\/status\/1553267672271421441\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;top priority&#8217; <\/a>as they seek to further bolster their squad.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Craig Hope and Tom Collomosse of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport\/status\/1554199240687091718\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mail Sport<\/a>, Newcastle&#8217;s club-record \u00a340 million+ offer has been rejected, with Leicester holding firm on their \u00a360 million asking price. This comes just days after an opening bid of \u00a335 million was also rejected by the East Midlands club, who will not want to lose last season&#8217;s Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/newcastle-united-james-maddison-top-priority\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal\u2019s Pursuit of Leicester City Star Could Ruin Newcastle United\u2019s Hopes of Landing \u2018Top Priority\u2019 Midfielder<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Maddison Open to Move<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/the-frenkie-de-jong-saga-chelseas?fbclid=IwAR3AvxbPpby8dCX3aPACmlXctT09uQSZzlAcLoZi_w8EdxYniZnqPkuGATQ\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has reported that Maddison would be open to joining Newcastle and that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/29\/joe-rodon-rennes-loan-fabrizio-romano\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> also hold an interest in the midfielder, but reiterated that Leicester are not looking to sell their best players.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd10 James Maddison made 48 key passes in the Premier League last season<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd32 Only Allan Saint-Maximin (50) made more of all Newcastle players <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XZeJDYHVyp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XZeJDYHVyp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WhoScored (@WhoScored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhoScored\/status\/1554419235971108865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Kasper Schmeichel on the verge of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1554266666242031618\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joining Nice<\/a>, and the futures of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1553764563153297411\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Fofana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1523566366598389760?s=20&amp;t=PfCLvdtjZClTpDxstpNzMQ\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youri Tielemans<\/a> currently uncertain and with only a week before their season opener against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/mikkel-damsgaard-brentford-sampdoria\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a>, Leicester will not want this situation to drag on and cause further disruption to what is a crucial campaign for them.<\/p>\n<h3>Leicester Standing Firm<\/h3>\n<p>The Foxes are unlikely to deviate from their past policy of only selling one top asset a year, and will not likely be moved on their valuation of Maddison.<\/p>\n<p>Given the way in which Leicester&#8217;s hierarchy dealt with the sale of Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell and Riyad Mahrez in the past, they have developed a reputation for driving a hard bargain and standing firm in the face of pressure, be it from other clubs or their own players.<\/p>\n<p>The ball is now very much in Newcastle&#8217;s court, who will have to significantly improve their offer to land their target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United&#8216;s offer of \u00a340 million for England ace James Maddison has been rejected by Leicester City, with the clubs some way apart in their valuation. James Maddison Bid Rejected by Leicester Magpies&#8217; Bid Turned Down James Maddison has been heavily linked with a move to the North-East, with Newcastle reportedly viewing the creative midfielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4239,"featured_media":615563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,15,1267,7188],"tags":[1446,9358,9357],"class_list":["post-615532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-leicester-city","category-newcastle-united","category-rumours","tag-james-maddison","tag-leicester-city-transfers","tag-newcastle-united-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615532","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\/4239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}