I was about to join in the chorus chuckling at BensGrandad's £3.8m valuation of Lewis Dunk until I remembered that we paid just £4.5m for Shane Duffy at the start of the season - same sort of age, similar level of ability and of course Duffy is an international player.
That said, both will be...
I had a quick look on a Newcastle forum yesterday and one bloke was insistent their entire bench would all walk into our first team, and he wasn't exactly called out by others. With that in mind, I'm sure no more than one or two of our players would be of interest to mighty Newcastle, champions...
Ah well that explains our interest right there I suspect. For better or worse, we've never signed uber-expensive players. We won't be in for a Jordan Rhodes type player to get us over the line, but squad players with good attitudes who ultimately improve the squad (even if only marginally)...
My word of caution would be that some players just blossom under some managers and not others. We've seen it so often down here. The other thing to note is that I'd rather have a Derby fringe player stepping in than a six month loan signing, and if he isn't good enough to challenge for a match...