Newcastle United transfer news LIVE: Spurs make £90m Tonali offer, Archie Gray bid 'rejected'

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Gray is still just 20 years of age but already has amassed a vast amount of experience. He made 52 appearances in the 2023/24 season as Leeds were beaten in the Championship play-off final before being sold to Spurs that summer for £30million.

Since then, he has won the Europa League, played in the Champions League and won 17 England under-21 caps. He has excelled at right-back and centre-back, as well as his usual central midfield role.

That versatility, as well as his huge potential, makes him a very attractive prospect for potential suitors this summer.

He is under contract in north London, though, for another four years and Tottenham do not want to lose him. It may take a considerable offer to prise him away from the club as a result.

According to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, Newcastle have had a transfer offer rejected for Archie Gray.

Tottenham do not want to sell but the Magpies are said to remain interested in his services. Spurs, of course, are keen to sign Sandro Tonali from Newcastle and Gray, who is also a midfielder, could find himself down the pecking order.

Gray joined Tottenham for £30million two years ago from Leeds United. One to watch and we will bring you more as we get it.

According to the Mail Online, Newcastle are now 'frontrunners' in the race to sign Hoffenheim winger Bazoumana Toure.

The 20-year-old Ivory Coast international was knocked out of the World Cup on Tuesday evening when Norway beat his side, which means conversations over his future are now expected to ramp up.

The left-winger grabbed five goals and 12 assists last season to help Hoffenheim qualify for this season's Europa League and is viewed as a potential replacement for Anthony Gordon.

Chronicle Live understands that while Spurs have agreed an £85m move for Mateus Fernandes, that doesn't mean their interest in Sandro Tonali is over. Quite the opposite - Tonali is still a target as long as the finances are right and they can match Newcastle's asking price.

To spend £185m on two midfielders is wild for a team who has finished 17th in successive Premier League seasons. Add on the £52m they've spent on Jan Paul Van Hecke, huge wages for Marco Senesi and Andy Robertson, plus their desire to sign a new forward. All this while Newcastle are forced to sell to buy, and have a tight rein on their finances.

Newcastle's drive to recruit the best young talent around the UK as possible has seen them reportedly swoop for Ipswich Town schoolboy Eli Hall.

The 14-year-old became the youngest player ever to have appeared for the Tractor Boys’ U18s before deregistering from the academy last month.

Right-back Hall joined Ipswich as a seven-year-old. He played the full 90 minutes for their U18s in March in a 4-3 defeat at Birmingham City, aged just 14 years and 165 days old.

Hall was offered a scholarship by the Suffolk side in November but opted to leave the club and, according to the Secret Scout, is now set to join Newcastle. Spurs are also keen to sign him. United would have to pay a minimal compensation figure.

It follows on from another youngster, Kyle Healy-Matthews, arriving in Tyneside this week to sign for the club. The 16-year-old has left West Ham to move to Newcastle.

Newcastle United striker Yoane Wissa is running hot with DR Congo after being frozen out at St James' Park during a long, hard winter on Tyneside.

Wissa's last Premier League start came way back in February, when he was hauled off on a miserable day for Newcastle as they were beaten 3-2 at home to Wissa's old club Brentford and the fog on the Tyne swept in at full-time. He'd been hooked after missing a golden chance to make it 2-0 but his side went on to crumble and lose 3-2 after he'd been afforded just 17 touches.

The £55m signing, who drove himself to Newcastle push through an 11th-hour deadline day move last summer, ended the season with just three Toon goals to his name - a tally he has already matched at the World Cup finals with DR Congo.

It was a tough slog for Wissa at Newcastle after picking up a knee injury within days of being paraded as the club's no.9 while on international duty with DR Congo against Senegal. His Newcastle debut was delayed until December and he missed the African Cup of Nations out of respect to the Magpies, returning to score just three times for his new club before the campaign fizzled out and he jetted to the World Cup with a point to prove, something he's managed to do impressively in fairness.

Wissa has shown why Newcastle signed him 10 months ago but he could yet become an England show-stopper tonight.

Read the full story, here.

According to the Athletic, Tottenham have beaten Manchester United in the race to sign West Ham United midfielder Mateus Fernandes.

The 21-year-old is set to move to North London in an £85million deal after Spurs agreed to the relegated club's demands, while Manchester United had decided the price tag and the wages needed to secure the deal was over what they were willing to pay.

Whether or not that affects any Spurs move for Sandro Tonali remains to be seen but the word is that their pursuit of Fernandes was separate to their interest in the Newcastle star and not separate of it.