Newcastle madness with Immobile

“He will stay for many years.” Days ago, Igli Tare, sports director of Lazio, assured in an interview with Sky Sports that in Rome there was Ciro Immobile for a while. With 27 goals and twelve games to go, the striker is facing one of the best seasons of his career competing for the Golden Boot with Robert Lewandowski and on his way to becoming 'capocannionere' for the third time with six goals difference over Cristiano and ten about Lukaku.

Your data is well worth a few calls to ask about your situation in the face of a possible transfer and the last one is, how much less, tempting. Mohamed Bin Salman and his Saudi consortium are close to closing the Newcastle purchase and want to convince Immobile that it is time for a Premier League experience.

As reported by the Gazzetta dello Sport, To convince the footballer, the future Saudi property has put on the table a salary of 8 million a year, doubling the proposal for the renewal of Lazio who wants to extend his contract two more years at the rate of four million euros per season.

In addition to doubling the Italian's salary, The Saudis also want to fill Lazio's pocket and try to convince Claudio Lotito, Laziale's top president, with an offer of 55 million euros for the Torre Annunziata bomber. With the market downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ciro is valued, according to Transfermarkt, at 40 million euros, so the offer would be 15 million above its market price and even 5 above its maximum (50 million in June 2018). An operation that in total would go to Newcastle up to 135 'kilos'.

Although the offer is attractive for both Immobile and Lazio, there is a point against that could prevent the transalpine from finishing dressed in black and white. While he is a prolific striker on the peninsula (126 goals in Serie A and 30 in B), outside his borders he has never managed to get close to that level. The first to bet on him outside Italy was Borussia Dortmund in 2014 after becoming Calcio's top scorer with Torino. The nine did not fit and he barely saw the door scoring ten goals in 34 yellow games. Given the performance in Germany, Sevilla tried to fish in a troubled river and they were able to revitalize the striker's instinct, something that did not happen when they also signed bad numbers in Pizjuán (15 games, four goals). He changed Seville for Turin and returned to the path of goal.

With the Euro Cup around the corner, Lazio competing at the top of Calcio with him as a star and with a pending renewal, it seems that Ciro will not leave Rome but, according to this newspaper, He has received this tempting offer and also the proposal to put himself under the command of Rafa Benítez, that it would recover the bench of the magpies with the arrival of the new owners.