Reports from Spain are saying that Newcastle have agreed a fee with Deportivo over their 22 year old striker Francisco Jiménez Tejada or more familiarly Xisco. Fee is thought to be around 7 million euros plus another 3 million euros in clauses.

No official confirmation has been released yet but Deportivo’s coach Miguel Ángel Lotina has apparently confirmed after Deportivo’s victorious start to the campaign against Real Madrid that he is aware of the transfer. Deportivo fansite Riazor.org confirms that the player is flying to Newcastle to pass his medical.

Judging by the reactions from a lot of Deportivo fans he is quite highly rated by them. Their fans describe him as a strong striker who is surprisingly quick, technically gifted and one of their biggest talents.

We’ll wait and see what happens but surely it can’t be too bad if it keeps Shola and Smith out of the team.

Tomorrow’s Daily Mail is actually expecting Smith to complete his Everton move sooner than later. Get your party hats out!

Newcastle have agreed a fee to sign Villarreal’s 21-year-old left back Jose Enrique Sanchez. Details haven’t been announced yet but according to some sources the fee is around £4m.

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As promised we promised earlier our Austrian reporters Lucas and Stefan have been going through their archives and here’s some more photos from Newcastle’s training camp.

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Newcastle’s 21-year-old winger today signed a new 4-year contract keeping him at the club until 2011. Milner recently enjoyed his best season in a Black & White shirt also equalling Shay Given’s record of 53 appearances during a season.

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Newcastle ended their week long pre-season camp in Austria yesterday and flew back to Tyneside. Once again our Austrian reporter Stefan was at the scene and captured the Magpies taking off from the Graz airport. Today we also bring you the best unpublished photos from the first two days of the training camp.

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We’re back again with more EXCLUSIVE pictures from our Austrian reporters Lucas and Stefan. The Magpies are nearing the end of their one week training camp in Austria where the players and staff are preparing for the new season and today we also bring you some exclusive news as well as these great pictures.

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Yesterday the Newcastle squad and backroom staff arrived in sunny Austria for a weeks pre-season camp. The Magpies are staying at a hidden luxury resort in Stegersbach and our local reporters Stefan and Lucas were there when they arrived at the airport and settled in their hotel.

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After securing the first two signings of his Newcastle career, Allardyce is stepping up the chase for some defensive recruits. The Newcastle defense is seriously lacking in quantity as in quality and Allardyce has made it clear that the focus from now on will be in reinforcing the much ridiculed back four. Today we’ll be looking at the players rumoured to be in Sam’s sights.

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While the papers are currently spending their days trying to make up some great puns about the Newcastle takeover and still not managing to come up with anything better than “CASHley for the Toon”, we are certainly not going to let any transfer rumours slip past our radar.

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While most people are losing their sleep over the color of Owen’s bed sheets, Allardyce seems to be already well on his way rebuilding the black & white defence. That’s if you believe what the papers say.

Tal Ben Haim is a name constantly popping up when you fight your way past the Page 3 girls to the football sections. Saturday’s The Sun reported that the Israeli defender is all set to follow Allardyce to St James’ Park within the next fortnight after turning down Bolton’s new contract offer. Believe it or not, Tuesday’s The Independent didn’t agree. Their information is that Ben Haim is Chelsea bound with West Ham and Portsmouth hot on their heels.

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So the inevitable transfer rumour circus is already well on its way and in this section we’ll bring you all the hottest gossip from our more or less knowledgeable reporters.

The biggest papers in the country wasted no time after Newcastle decided to end Roeder’s reign and hire Allardyce as the new black & white messiah. Infact they already let us know who the new man was looking to bring in before there even was a new man. Saying that I’m sure you won’t be suprised to hear that one of the biggest targets of the summer was already lost before he was even made a target. That man was obviously Middlesbrough’s star defender Abel Xavier. The hormone hungry portuguese was quick to turn down a proposed move to Newcastle and decided to follow Sir David Beckham to Los Angeles Galaxy.

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