{"id":346489,"date":"2025-08-15T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346489\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:12:18","slug":"yoane-wissa-left-out-of-brentford-squad-as-newcastle-near-final-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346489\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoane Wissa Left Out of Brentford Squad as Newcastle Near Final Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yoane Wissa will not play in Brentford\u2019s Premier League opener against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, with his transfer to Newcastle United moving closer to completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Head coach Keith Andrews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr74m0n09kyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> the 28-year-old forward has been training alone this week as talks continue over a deal believed to be worth around \u00a340 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Newcastle saw an offer worth up to \u00a330m rejected last month, but remain in negotiations to bring in last season\u2019s 19-goal striker, with the forward\u2019s mindset locked into a move to Tyneside sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt has been a very disrupted pre-season \u2014 I think you\u2019re aware of that interest in Yoane,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cAs a head coach, I want Yoane in the building, to be a part of the first team. I see that moving forwards but I am very understanding of his situation. For Sunday, he won\u2019t be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wissa has made it clear he wants to leave Brentford, having also been the subject of a failed bid from Nottingham Forest in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His impending exit comes as the Bees agreed a fee on Thursday for Bournemouth winger Dango Ouattara, whose \u00a342m move will set a new club transfer record while providing Wissa\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ouattara has been granted a move after telling Bournemouth he wanted the switch, with the Cherries now pursuing Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Amine Adli as a replacement, and unlocking the arrival of Wissa at Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The completion of Wissa\u2019s transfer is expected to play a role in Newcastle\u2019s ongoing striker plans, particularly as the club face uncertainty over Alexander Isak\u2019s future, planning for both his exit and the arrival of, optimally, another striker to bolster the rotation with Will Osula the only other No. 9 in the first-team squad for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoane Wissa will not play in Brentford\u2019s Premier League opener against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, with his transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,65701,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-newcastle-united-transfer-news-rumors","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032722299853847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346489","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=346489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}