OPINION
It seems as though Newcastle United have missed out on the opportunity to sign Benfica midfielder Andreas Samaris with Telegraph reporter Luke Edwards claiming that a deal for the Greece international has “collapsed”. Although it is late January disappointment for Newcastle, some fans do not seem that bothered by this deadline day development, and you can understand why. Rafa Benitez doesn’t need a new central midfielder that desperately. Once all players are fit and available once more then he has quite a few options in that area. Plus, Samaris is hardly an improvement on what is already at St James’ Park. The 29-year-old has started just two league games for Benfica this season and is nowhere near as good as he once was. Newcastle’s priority on deadline day is surely sealing deals for Miguel Almiron and Antonio Barreca, with Samaris more than likely of least concern before the day kicked off. This isn’t terrible news for Newcastle at all.
Looks like Andreas Samaris move to Newcastle has collapsed so highly unlikely Hayden will be leaving #nufc
— Luke Edwards (@LukeEdwardsTele) January 31, 2019
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/doddsy1991/status/1090916757542526981
Here we go ash has put the spanny in ..
— Les #GTTO #nhs???? (@Les_Scott62) January 31, 2019
Ffs
— colin oliver (@100Magpie) January 31, 2019
Samaris deal off ?
— Asa Bartlett ???? (@asabart14) January 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/Darrah88/status/1090919434536054789
https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1090916559021920256
Not good, having a player that doesn’t want to be here ? he still gives his all though so I respect him for that
— Dazza (@NUFC_DazzaD) January 31, 2019
So it begins
— Peter abley (@Peterabley85) January 31, 2019