{"id":440404,"date":"2023-07-23T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440404"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:42:20","slug":"newcastle-ink-harvey-barnes-on-a-5-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/newcastle-ink-harvey-barnes-on-a-5-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle ink Harvey Barnes on a 5-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have added the attacking midfielder Harvey Barnes from Leicester City to their squad as the player signed a 5-campaign deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to announce the signing of Harvey Barnes from Leicester City on a five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Newcastle United, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harveybarnes97?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@harveybarnes97<\/a>! \u26ab\ufe0f\u26aa\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUFC\/status\/1683115034220560392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Magpies paid 50 million dollars to the Foxes for Barnes, who is part of the England international squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a fantastic team, and for me, it&#8217;s an amazing opportunity to come and be involved in a successful side with very high ambitions,&#8221; Harvey shared after the news about his transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s an attacker&#8217;s dream to play in a team like this; it&#8217;s high-paced, it&#8217;s physically demanding, but that gives you amazing opportunities in the opponent\u2019s half, and we can score many goals, so I think I will fit perfectly in Newcastle and this style of play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes came from the Foxes\u2019 academy and was 1 of the few great players for Leicester in the past campaign, but he wasn\u2019t enough for the team to avoid relegation to the Championship despite scoring 13 goals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Most goals scored by English wingers in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues in 2022\/23:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ce 17 &#8211; Marcus Rashford<br \/>\n\u25ce 14 &#8211; Bukayo Saka<br \/>\n\u25c9 13 &#8211; Harvey Barnes<br \/>\n\u25ce 11 &#8211; Phil Foden<\/p>\n<p>Two of them were equalisers. \ud83c\udff9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vm9DxdT6C2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vm9DxdT6C2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1683123772029542401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have added the attacking midfielder Harvey Barnes from Leicester City to their squad as the player signed a 5-campaign deal. \u270d\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19614,18576,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19881,20570,18577,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Magpies signed the player from Leicester.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440404"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440404"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}