{"id":209328,"date":"2025-06-24T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209328\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T03:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:21:11","slug":"newcastle-closing-in-on-south-korean-boy-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209328\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle closing in on South Korean boy wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Northern Football Correspondent<\/p>\n

Newcastle United<\/a> are working on a deal to sign highly-rated 18-year-old Park Seung-soo, The i Paper understands.<\/p>\n

While the Magpies are spinning plates on senior signings, with talks ongoing with Burnley over \u00a330m-rated goalkeeper James Trafford and interest in both Crystal Palace\u2019s Marc Guehi and Atalanta\u2019s Giorgio Scalvini, they are moving closer to signing another project player.<\/p>\n

Teenage forward Park, who can play either as a left winger or striker, currently plays for second tier Suwon Bluewings and previously had trials with Bayern Munich. <\/p>\n

The 6ft South Korean has five caps for the under-20s and has also attracted interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers.<\/p>\n

Sources have told The i Paper that the deal is \u201cprogressing\u201d and would be viewed in a similar vein to recruiting Antonio Cordero<\/a> from Malaga earlier in the summer. <\/p>\n

The Spain U19 forward will be loaned out by Newcastle when he officially links up with his new club next month.<\/p>\n

While the hope is for the likes of Cordero and Georgia winger Vakhtang Salia, who will join Newcastle in August after he turns 18, to become first-team players at St James\u2019 Park bringing in rough diamonds from around the world is also a key part of the club\u2019s plan to improve their player trading record.<\/p>\n

Their experience with Yankuba Minteh, who was sold to Brighton last summer to help them comply with the Premier League\u2019s profitability and sustainability rules<\/a>, proves that approach can be successful and the club have invested heavily in the academy in a bid to catch up with some of their top flight rivals.<\/p>\n

Newcastle would hope to tie up a deal for Park before they tour South Korea next month, boosting local interest in the tour. <\/p>\n

They play a K-League All-Stars side at the end of July before taking on Tottenham Hotspur on 3 August. <\/p>\n

While the deal is not a commercial one \u2013 the club have improved their global scouting network over the past 12 months \u2013 there has been a conscious effort to improve their following in Asia since touring Japan in 2024.<\/p>\n

While it doesn\u2019t appear as if first-team signings are imminent, Newcastle are continuing to work on a deal<\/a> for Brighton\u2019s Joao Pedro. <\/p>\n

While Chelsea are also keen, The i Paper understands that Newcastle are in the ascendancy on that transfer at the moment, although want to deal at less than the \u00a360m asking price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Football Correspondent Newcastle United are working on a deal to sign highly-rated 18-year-old Park Seung-soo, The i…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,11492,101,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-newcastle-united-fc","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-transfer-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}