Newcastle can find the next Ben Afa by signing the ‘amazing’ £14million magician

Will Newcastle ensure the Champions League qualification?

On the final day of the Premier League season, Eddie Howe’s team ranks fourth but has not secured Champions League qualification yet.

With goal difference alone, Xipies surpassed Chelsea and Aston Villa, but won Everton’s victory, they are expected to be the noisy St James Park, winning the top five and returning to the Champions League.

Newcastle, expected to complete the job, has begun planning for the summer transfer window, so they have a “amazing” magician that is reminiscent of fans of the past favorite magician?

Hatem Ben Arfa’s Newcastle United Career

Hatem Ben Arfa initially arrived at Tyneside from the 2010 summer loaned Olympic Marseille and will set out as a true cult hero in four years.

The Frenchman scored 14 goals and provided 16 assists in 86 appearances in Hippies, but he certainly was more than just a statistic.

The goal-scoring Peter McVitie outlined his “showing glory” way in Northeast time, not showing much “consistency” and won Toon Army with “some dazzling firepower” and “a great show of skills.”

Meanwhile, Louise Taylor of The Guardian labeled him as “the kind of soccer fans adoring”, praising his “exquisite touch”…a superior vision, perfect balance and elusive action”, even though manager Alan Pardew often referred to him as “high maintenance.”

Jean-Baptiste Caillet of Opta’s analyst believes that Ben Arfa is “the best dribble in France since Zinédine Zidane, which is indeed highly praised, but by pointing out that only Neymar and Lionel Messi only Neymar and Lionel Messi completed the Zizzou Zzizou in Big-Five Leagues in Europe in 2006, only Neymar and Lionel Messi completed more.

So, over the decade since Ben Arfa left, can Newcastle’s loyalists soon have another swing winger to fall behind?

Newcastle searches for new striker

According to the latest report by Santi Aouna of Foot Mecato, Newcastle is “interested” in the signing of Al-Ahli Forward Gabri Veega.

Fabrizio Romano reportedly reported that Veiga is about to join Porto for £14m, but Newcastle, who has obvious ties to Saudi Arabia, hopes to hijack the deal.

Born and raised in Galicia, he broke into the local teenage club Celta de Vigo, playing Los Celestes as a “dream”, while Guardian’s Sid Lowe recorded his “extraordinary’la liga form” and added that he was not a stereotypical Spanish middleman.

In the 2022/23 season, he scored a total of 11 goals and scored five assists in 36 La Liga appearances, including Barcelona defeating Balaídos on the final day, which will be his last appearance at the club.

His La Liga statistics from that season are impressive.

Given the above, Veiga is expected to move to one of Europe’s largest clubs, however, he chose to join Al Ahli, while the Saudi Pro League team paid him a 40 million euro release clause, reportedly earning 10 million euros a year.

Well, in the Middle East, Espanyol scored 12 goals and scored ten assists in 65 games, a key figure that Matthias Jaissle’s side won in the AFC Champions League elite this season, beating Kawasaki Frontal in the Jeddah final earlier this month.

Now ready to return to Europe, can he go to Tyneside?

Mak Pakhei of a comprehensive football analysis praised Veega for “aware of the ball kicking forward” and his ability to play in the middle third of the court, which was characterized by Ben Arfa’s period at St James’ Park.

Reporter António Mango believes he has “amazing technical capabilities” while Thomas Hammond just marked him as “a quality player with a potential bag of potential”.

So it’s clear that Espanyol is a gorgeous, high-level midfielder who still has room for development at the age of 22, stressing that he will be an excellent and exciting signing for Newcastle supporters.