Charlie Austin Could Make Newcastle United Tick!

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Newcastle United seem ready to step up their chase of QPR’s Charlie Austin, with the view of bringing him in this summer.

I honestly think a transfer to the ‘Toon’ could be the best thing for Austin. But only if QPR succumb to relegation at that end of this current season.

Should that happen, then you’d imagine that Austin after impressing in his debut season in the English Premier League (EPL) would want to remain in the top flight.

If QPR do find themselves in the Championship next term, they will be welcomed back with a heft fine due to financial mismanagement from their season in the Football League back in 2013/14. That bill could be as much as £58m.

Charlie would be the London clubs most valuable commodity and be the one that garners the most interest in the summer. You then have to factor in that the strikers contract runs out in 2016 and he won’t discuss a new one until the QPR’s league future is decided.

Basically Austin won’t sign a new deal if ‘The R’s’ fall back into the Championship.

So that will kind of force the hand of QPR owner Tony Fernandes. But the fee could be closer to £10m rather than the £15m wanted by Tony and his board.

Clubs will obviously be interested in the hitman. He has impressed with his seventeen strikes in thirty starts in the EPL. That statistic is even more impressive when you realise that he’s done that in a mediocre side.

Austin has almost scored half of QPR’s goals during this league campaign.

The fact that he’s an instinctive finisher and has a great work ethic will be major plus for any potential new employers.

So why do I believe Newcastle could be the ideal move for the twenty-five year old?

Well at St James’s he’ll be allowed to continue his Premier League journey without the pressures that come at say a ‘Top Four’ club.

To be perfectly honest a move to a Man United, Chelsea or Man City could actually be two steps back. You might earn more and get the odd appearance in the Champions League but the competition is fierce. Having only one year’s top flight experience will count against him if one of those teams don’t do well and he will get dropped and used as a scapegoat.

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At Newcastle Utd he’ll go in as the number one striker.

This term as shown us that between them Sammy Ameobi, Ayoze Perez, Yoan Gouffran and Emmanuel Riviere are still not consistent enough performers.

Papiss Cisse is still scoring but you’d like him to get more. He seems to struggle for confidence and from a few niggling injuries. All in all it could be the right time to move on the Senegalese internationalist.

If Charlie Austin can arrive in Tyneside firing goals then the Geordie’s will see him as a hero. As supporters they love a true number nine who is prolific.

By going to Newcastle and being given regular starts up there plus goals, that should be enough to force Charlie Austin into Roy Hodgson’s England reckoning for Euro 2016. A major goal for any English footballer.

But there is one sticky issue in all this… Mike Ashley.

The Newcastle supremo needs to actually man up and make the purchase. Once or twice before Newcastle have been linked with similar signings and they have fallen through because Ashley seemed to like the PR without parting with the cash.

Also the ‘Toon Army‘ won’t be placated by the Austin signing. So if Ashley thinks that this signing will see the heat taken off him then he’ll need to think again. The relationship between the clubs fans and owner cannot be mended, in my opinion. Although the fans will still support the striker, they’ll never support Mike Ashley.

But the fact is this, Newcastle United could offer Charlie Austin the best future as he still needs to prove himself as a consistent scorer in the Premier League.

If he can do that at St James Park then the world could be is oyster! Sometimes the smaller steps can giving you bigger opportunities in the future.

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