Newcastle were keen on signing him before their botched takeover attempt.There was talk of a huge £300m takeover from a Saudi consortium last year to take the club off Mike Ashley's hands.However, discussions came to nothing, leaving Steve Bruce with a shoe-string budget to work with.The Toon managed a respectable 12th place finish in the end, and there is further talk of a takeover this summer.But it appears that Newcastle missed out on red hot striker Immobile due to a lack of funding last summer as he went on to score 36 goals in the Serie A last season.Making the claim about an approach from Newcastle, Immobile also insisted that they were looking to replace Bruce with a top Italian manager. “During the period in which there was talk of.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk