{"id":615950,"date":"2022-08-08T07:10:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615950"},"modified":"2022-08-08T07:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:10:43","slug":"newcastle-united-leicester-city-james-maddison-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/newcastle-united-leicester-city-james-maddison-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United to Make Third Bid for England International With Tottenham Hotspur Also Interested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/newcastle-united-leicester-city-james-maddison\/\" target=\"_self\">Newcastle United<\/a> will go in again for James Maddison, reports Fabrizio Romano in his daily briefing for <a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/the-daily-briefing-monday-8th-august\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caught Offside<\/a>. The Magpies have already seen two bids knocked back by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/newcastle-united-james-maddison-top-priority\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a>, who insist that the England international is <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/1164789\/james-maddison-wesley-fofana-newcastle-chelsea-brendan-rodgers-leicester-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As well as Newcastle, who are eyeing sustainable improvement since their Saudi-backed takeover, Maddison also has interest from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/tottenham-hotspur-nicolo-zaniolo-transfer-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, who themselves have undergone a lot of personnel changes since the arrival of Antonio Conte.<\/p>\n<h2>Newcastle to Launch Third Bid for James Maddison<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Here we go &#8211; the latest EXCLUSIVE transfer news from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40 Ronaldo benched vs Brighton &#8211; what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>\u231b When Werner to RB Leipzig will be announced<\/p>\n<p>\u2795 Plus Maddison, Diaby, and more!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caughtoffside\/status\/1556527559306797061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Tough Deal to Pull Off<\/h3>\n<p>Leicester are the only team in the Premier League not to have made a signing this summer, and that makes letting go of Maddison all the more difficult for them.<\/p>\n<p>Star men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/arsenal-fc\/transfer-news\/edu-youri-tielemans-arsenal-transfer-24692738\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youri Tielemans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/chelsea-transfer-news-wesley-fofana-b2140547.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Fofana<\/a> are also being linked with moves away. If the Foxes were to lose both of them as well as Maddison, they could seriously struggle this season.<\/p>\n<p>All three of those players mentioned started in Sunday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/mikkel-damsgaard-brentford-sampdoria\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a>, with Leicester letting a two-goal lead slip thanks to second-half strikes from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7\u20e3 goals \u26bd\ufe0f<br \/>6\u20e3 assists \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane (21) is the only English player to be involved in more Premier League goals in 2022 than James Maddison \ud83e\udd8a\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4dt5DR1F7Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4dt5DR1F7Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LiveScore (@livescore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livescore\/status\/1556520834172436481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It suggests that even with those players, Leicester may not be one of the main challengers for a European spot this season, especially with no incomings on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, the Foxes are setting high prices for their star players &#8211; so much so that Romano says there is &#8220;no price&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it could be a tough deal for Newcastle to pull off, having already seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/aug\/02\/newcastle-fail-bid-leicester-james-maddison-transfer-window\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bid worth \u00a350 million rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is still interest from Tottenham, but Romano adds that it&#8217;s not a priority for them and they are more focussed on moving Giovani Lo Celso and Harry Winks out of the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United will go in again for James Maddison, reports Fabrizio Romano in his daily briefing for Caught Offside. The Magpies have already seen two bids knocked back by Leicester City, who insist that the England international is not for sale. As well as Newcastle, who are eyeing sustainable improvement since their Saudi-backed takeover, Maddison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":615952,"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":[3,15,1267,7188,24],"tags":[1446,9358,9357,7539],"class_list":["post-615950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-leicester-city","category-newcastle-united","category-rumours","category-tottenham","tag-james-maddison","tag-leicester-city-transfers","tag-newcastle-united-transfers","tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615950","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}