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Newcastle-linked £57.5m striker suffers broken foot
Reported Newcastle United target Luka Jovic has suffered a broken foot while training at home and is expected to be out of action for up to seven weeks.
Last week, reported that the Magpies were interested in the Real Madrid striker, who is also believed to be of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
The Serbia international joined Real from Eintracht Frankfurt last summer for an initial €65million, or around £57.5million (), following a superb season in which he scored 27 goals in 47 appearances.
However, he has struggled at the Bernabeu, scoring just two goals in all competitions, and was dropped from the squad for their last three games before the football suspension.
On Friday, Real announced the news on their official website: “After the tests carried out today on our player Luka Jovic by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he was diagnosed with an extra-articular fracture in the calcaneus bone of the right foot.”
According to , the as-yet unexplained injury is expected to sideline him for nearly two months, so he’s unlikely to be fit for the potential restart of the La Liga season in mid-June.
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Though Jovic’s arrival was seen as a coup for Real Madrid last summer, he has struggled massively, and given Los Blancos generally have a low tolerance for players who don’t immediately step up to the plate, it doesn’t exactly bode well for the 22-year-old’s Bernabeu future.
That’s not to say he’s a bad player by any means – Serbia coach Mladen Krstajic previously said of Jovic, as quoted by the Bundesliga : “He’s a classic goal-getter with great control of the ball and a good understanding of the game. I’d probably compare him to Luis Suarez.”
Lionel Messi, meanwhile, described Jovic as “a magical player who makes the impossible, possible” in one of his 15 “youth on the rise” players for Topps Champions League cards, as quoted by .
With Newcastle on the verge of a potentially very lucrative takeover, it’s not too unlikely for them to afford and eventually pull off the signing of a talented player that Real could well choose to offload in the summer, if all the various reports are true.