Newcastle United have agreed a fee within the area of £38million with Leicester City for the signing of Harvey Barnes.
Personal phrases will not be anticipated to be a difficulty and if all goes in line with plan, Barnes will be a part of Eddie Howe’s facet.
Newcastle have been actively exploring a transfer for Barnes throughout this summer time’s switch window and now look set to safe the companies of the English winger.
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The 25-year-old was Leicester’s high scorer final season, scoring 13 objectives in 34 Premier League appearances.
Barnes is certainly one of quite a few gamers Leicester have been open to promoting because the membership look to chop the wage invoice following their relegation to the Championship.
Leicester have been relegated on the ultimate day of the Premier League marketing campaign and can play in English soccer’s second tier for the primary time since 2013-14 subsequent season.
James Maddison has already joined Tottenham Hotspur in a deal value over £40million, whereas Youri Tielemans, Ayoze Perez, Caglar Soyuncu, Nampalys Mendy, Daniel Amartey and Ryan Bertrand all departed the membership as free brokers.
Leicester have signed Conor Coady from Wolverhampton Wanders and Harry Winks from Tottenham forward of their return to the Championship.
Barnes is a product of the Leicester academy and has made 187 appearances in all competitions following his debut in 2016, scoring 45 objectives.
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Harvey Barnes’ mastery of the one-two has made up for his dribbling deficiencies
Earlier this season, Michael Cox analysed Barnes’ type of play, what he dropped at Leicester and what he lacked, focussing on his profitable use of one-twos…
“Barnes shouldn’t be beautiful, nor does he present flashes of genius. You received’t discover a stepover, or a cheeky end, or many spectacular long-rangers. Barnes’ recreation is sort of solely based mostly across the easiest idea in soccer: the give-and-go.
“He is a advantageous ball-carrier, however probably is aware of his limitations at immediately beating his opponent. And as a goalscoring large participant, his essential job is to get previous the opposition full-back and rating objectives. Therefore, he compensates for his lack of trickery by relentlessly taking part in one-twos with team-mates.
“Opposition right-backs have a particular activity when taking part in towards Barnes — don’t fear an excessive amount of about him operating at you with the ball, however be very cautious when he knocks the ball infield and prices previous you.”
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