Newcastle have signed Bazoumana Toure from Bundesliga club Hoffenheim for \u00a342m.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old winger is the second signing of the summer for Eddie Howe after keeper Ewen Jaouen, also 20, joined last month.<\/p>\n
Toure represented Ivory Coast at the World Cup, starting their first game against Ecuador and making two more appearances off the bench.<\/p>\n
Toure is the first outfield signing in what is expected to be a busy summer for Newcastle following the \u00a3170m double sale of Anthony Gordon and Sandro Tonali.<\/p>\n
Bazoumana said: “I’m very, very happy to be here. It was my dream since I was young to play in the Premier League for a big team like Newcastle.<\/p>\n
“Newcastle is like a family, which will help me show my best on the pitch. I will give my best every single day for this shirt.<\/p>\n
“I’m very excited to join Newcastle and I can’t wait to meet my team-mates, the supporters and everybody at the club. I’m also very excited to play at St. James’ Park for the first time.”<\/p>\n
Howe: Toure can offer us something different<\/p>\n
Howe said: “We’re really pleased to have been able to bring Bazoumana to Newcastle United.<\/p>\n
“He has shown his ability to perform in a top European league during his time in Germany and has gained really good experience with his national team, especially at this summer’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
“We feel that he’s a player with a really high ceiling – he’s somebody who we believe can offer us something different. He also a lot of potential to unlock and we’re really looking forward to working with him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have signed Bazoumana Toure from Bundesliga club Hoffenheim for \u00a342m. The 20-year-old winger is the second signing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-675457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}