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Newcastle fully focused on Southampton wing-back Livramento

Southampton are not budging on their valuation of right-back Tino Livramento.

The Saints are willing to sell one of their best young players, as is the case with Romeo Lavia.

However, the Championship side want a fee in the region of £50 million to part with the former Chelsea youth star.

TalkSPORT correspondent Alex Crook told GiveMeSport: “Yeah, I think it's the only deal, as far as I'm concerned, that they are actively working on at the moment.

"They had three targets at the start of the transfer window - Harvey Barnes, Sandro Tonali, and Tino Livramento, who can obviously fill in for Kieran Trippier at right-back and be a long-term successor, and can even fill in at left-back.

"That's an area that Eddie Howe is a bit concerned about, as well as Dan Burn did last season. The problem is the price and again, Southampton aren't going to be bullied on the cheap.

"When Newcastle first enquired, they were told he'd cost £50m, and I've not been given any indication that Southampton are going to lower that."

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