If we can get Obafemi Martins, Sully Muntari and Manuel Fernandes then a EUFA spot is a definate possibility.
we have made the best offer for Martins, it is just a case of persuading him he doesn't want to play CL football for a couple of seasons.
hopefully he is greedy and will take our offer.
looks like they signed kanu.
Kanu is very well respected in Nigeria. hopefully that will help persuade Martins to jon us.
Beers are on me if we do
Newcastle agree £10 million fee for Inter's Martinssoccernet.com
Newcastle are understood to have agreed a £10million fee with Inter Milan for Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins.
The player's representative has been on Tyneside and has now returned to Italy to discuss the offer with his client.
'I can confirm we have agreed a fee with Inter Milan for Obafemi Martins,' Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd told the club's website.
'It is now up to the player and the agent to agree terms on the offer.'
Martins yesterday revealed that a deal was 80% done, and Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd and manager Glenn Roeder will hope to finalise the transfer as they attempt to find a replacement for retired captain Alan Shearer.
Roeder has turned to the Inter Milan striker after being warned off Germany forward Miroslav Klose.
Martins himself seems keen to head for England, with the 21-year-old saying yesterday: 'I'm close to moving to Newcastle despite all the initial setbacks. Eighty per cent of the deal with Newcastle is completed.
'Playing in the Premiership has been a long-term ambition and I am extremely delighted with the prospect of concluding that in the next couple of days.'
Shepherd may have more cash to play with should misfit Jean-Alain Boumsong complete a proposed £4.5million move to Juventus.
The north-east club are desperate for a top-drawer striker. Alan Shearer has retired while England forward Michael Owen is not expected back until 2007 after his World Cup knee injury.
The 21-year-old Martins, who joined Inter in 2002, is a powerfully built forward who can run at defences.
In December last year he extended his Inter contract until 2010 but the close-season acquisitions of Argentina striker Hernan Crespo from English champions Chelsea and Sweden frontman Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Juventus, in the wake of Italy's match-fixing scandal, have pushed him down the pecking order.