Newcastle United look set to add one of French football’s hottest prospects, Hugo Ekitike, to their ranks on transfer deadline.
When rumours of the club’s potential takeover initially broke, Kylian Mbappe’s name was ironically linked with a move to Tyneside.
That deal was understandably deemed unrealistic but the arrival of the next best thing in Ligue 1 looks as though it could be announced in the final hours of the window.
