REPORT: FREE AGENT HAS NOW BEEN OFFERED TO TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR AND NEWCASTLE

Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur and Eddie Howe’s have now been offered the chance to sign Daichi Kamada.

Daichi Kamada offered to Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United

90min are reporting this morning that after AC Milan decided not to sign Daichi Kamada on a free transfer this summer, the Japan international has been offered to Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United.

Inter Milan, Napoli and Borussia Dortmund have also been told that they could now be able to sign Kamada in the summer transfer window.

90min have claimed that although Kamada was all set to sign for Milan after his departure from Eintracht Frankfurt, the Serie A outfit have decided to pull the plug on the deal after changes in the club hierarchy.

Tottenham and Newcastle wanted to sign the attacker before he decided to make the move to Milan, and both Spurs and the Magpies have now been offered his services, according to the report.

In our opinion, Daichi Kamada is a very good and exiting player who can operate as an attacking midfielder or as a forward.

The Japan international is only 26 now, which means that his best years are ahead of him.

Kamada did well for Eintracht Frankfurt over the years and won the UEFA Europa League with the German club in 2021-22.

Last season, Kamada made 25 starts and seven substitute appearances in the Bundesliga.

The Japanese star scored nine goals and gave six assists in those games.

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Here at The Mag we have introduced a new feature, asking a number of our regular / irregular contributors to write about a past Newcastle United player that they liked / loved for whatever reason(s), not necessarily the best player they have ever seen.

More the fact that, this player became a big favourite of theirs, no matter what level of ability they had.

This time it is – My Newcastle United – Why I loved Gabriel Obertan.

I’ve never seen anyone parodied so well by a cartoon character until we signed Mister Logic from Everton last season!

What were this player’s strengths when at Newcastle United?

The questions are getting a little harder now!

He had good ball control and pace. I first remember seeing him in a Manure European game. I can’t remember who they were playing but he absolutely terrorised them. They doubled up on him but he just left them for dead time after time. When we bought him I thought we’d got a new David Ginola in the making but it didn’t quite work out that way.

Any weaknesses?

His main weakness was his lack of confidence which resulted in his inconsistency and failure to deliver that end product.

My two favourite memories – and the reason I made this rather bizarre choice – are of the two league goals he scored during his five (yes, five!) seasons with us.

The first was on a chilly February night at Ewood Park. Me and my son were right behind the Blackburn goal when he burst through the middle, left their defence for dead and gave the keeper no chance, 2-0 and job done.

Living at that time in the heart of Blackburn territory, it gave us both immense satisfaction to be able to rub those blue and white noses in it at work and school respectively over the next few days. I was always going to love the lad for that.

The other 50% of his league goals was an even greater gift to me.

In October 2014 we were at home to Leicester City. By that time I had entered the virtual world of the Chronicle comments site and was engaged in a long-running exchange of pleasantries with the legendary Michael Caine. He was the reason I decided to join up and create a moniker – Wor Lass.

Before the game I’d predicted we’d win 1-0 and that Obertan would score the goal. I never really expected he would but I knew it would wind Michael up as he always derided the lad unmercifully. One of his favourites (applied to a variety of players over the years) being, “He couldn’t score in a brothel with a £50 note hanging out of his flies.”

Well, if he’d been in a brothel he would have come out well satisfied and £50 worse off. A 1-0 win and Gabriel Obertan the scorer. I was then able to deliver the coup de grace, “Well, Michael, that just goes to show that Wor Lass knows more about football than you!”

Michael and I ended up on very good terms and I have to say he was a big miss when he disappeared from the site.

Hand on heart, on ability (not just your favouritism) would your player get in this current Newcastle United team that will play in the new season?

Keeping to the spirit of the questionnaire, especially the three word answer thing, Not … A … Chance.