Eddie Howe: Newcastle United boss plays down Neymar & Ronaldo links

Eddie Howe's Newcastle are successful a beardown presumption to scope adjacent season's Champions League

Superstar players specified arsenic Paris St-Germain's Neymar and Al Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo are retired of Newcastle United's fiscal reach, says Magpies brag Eddie Howe.

It has seen the nine linked with moves for the likes of Neymar and Ronaldo.

"We could not beryllium capable to travel adjacent to affording those players," said Howe.

"They are the champion players successful the world. We are ne'er going to beryllium successful a presumption presently to spend those transportation fees and wages, truthful we request to spell underneath and find them young and make them into the players they tin be."

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Since the takeover, Newcastle person spent astir £250m connected signings including Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes, Sven Botman, Nick Pope and grounds acquisition Alexander Isak.

They person helped the nine to 3rd successful the Premier League with 5 games near this play arsenic they adjacent successful connected securing qualification for the Champions League.

Asked astir Portugal guardant Ronaldo and Brazil's Neymar, Howe said: "That benignant of speculation has been determination from time 1 since the takeover.

"Naturally everyone has past assumed the biggest names successful satellite shot volition beryllium going to Newcastle.

"Now, we've not recruited that way. Financially, we can't enlistee that mode astatine the moment, but besides we person to bring the close radical and the close players into the group.

"I volition accidental the transportation marketplace is specified a analyzable decision, you can't conscionable prime a sanction and bring them in.

"There's got to beryllium a batch of thought going into what we're doing some financially and looking astatine the players."

He added: "Those 2 players are unbelievable players. We are linked with antithetic names.

"I cognize what absorption I privation to instrumentality the squad successful and what we tin and can't bash successful the transportation market."

Newcastle big second-placed Arsenal successful the Premier League connected Sunday (16:30 BST).

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