Since the takeover of Newcastle by the Saudi public investment fund, more and more rumors of transfers link players from all over Europe at the Magpies. But according to former Manchester United center-back Rio Ferdinand, they should recruit smartly and even came up with a few names for the Toons’ new athletic leadership: “I’d try to do a couple of crazy, huge recruitments that I think I can get. I would be interested in people like Raheem Sterling. Raheem Sterling doesn’t play regularly, I would ask him. I would go ask Declan Rice, “What’s going on?” These two would be the first two on my list, and I would do anything to get them. And then I would try to get people like Jesse Lingard, who is in and around the Man United squad. It’s unrealistic until you ask the question. “
The former Three Lions international (81 selections, 3 goals) considers that the black-and-white sports project must also be based on the youth across the Channel: “And then I would like to find young talents from all over the world who could blend together and blend into the whole. Do you know who I would go get now? I would go crazy for young English talent. The best young English talents. Max Aarons, Norwich right-back, under-21 player. Conor Gallagher, right in there. These are two names that today are young players who could come to Newcastle. Newcastle are an English club, I want a young nucleus of English players. “
