Newcastle suffer transfer blow with Carlos set for Sevilla stay

Sevilla sporting director Monchi believes Diego Carlos will now stay at the club after they rejected what he believes will be Newcastle’s final offer for the player.

Speaking at a LaLiga club spotlight event Monchi said the first contact between Newcastle and Sevilla came a month ago. What he called a ‘very important, respectable’ offer was then made which Sevilla rejected.

Asked if the club feared a late bid that would be too good to turn down Monchi added: ‘We last spoke three days ago. Both sides explained their position and we judged the negotiation to be closed and over. I don’t foresee it reopening.’

He earlier joked that he was ready to take an early holiday having secured the arrival of Anthony Martial from Manchester United. ‘That was an important signing,’ he said. ‘Both because of the player’s quality and because of the club he was coming from’.

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Sevilla are just four points off of leaders Real Madrid in the table and with so little time to find a replacement for Diego Carlos, Newcastle’s bid, believed to be in the region of £30million, was rejected, in part, because of its bad timing.

Monchi admitted: ‘the response might have been different had it been in the summer.’

Asked if the big defender was angry at not being allowed to leave he joked: ‘I saw him this morning and he looked happy. The size of him if he had been upset I might have had to change the decision.’