Florian Thauvin: Last News

Newcastle, the days of being owned by Mike Ashley and handing lucrative long-term contracts to French flops such as Sylvain Marveaux and Gabriel Obertan appear to be behind them for good.Toon fans will not need reminding of the dark period in the Premier League club’s history where Ligue 1 was their preferred choice of market for recruiting players on the cheap.On the one hand, it got them Yohan Cabaye, Hatem Ben Arfa and Moussa Sissoko, who all can point to successful periods spent with the Geordie outfit.But the list of expensive transfer failures — ranging from the capture of Florian Thauvin to the hugely disappointing Remy Cabella — are just as prominent as their successes under Alan Pardew and Rafa Benitez.Unfortunately for Marveaux and Obertan, the pair fit snugly in the latter category following their ineffectual respective stints on Tyneside. And 10 years on from their respective arrivals, they now ply their trade in the third tier of American soccer.Playing in the United States no longer carries the same embarrassment that it once did.

The world's most expensive player received a straight red card following an altercation with Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez as PSG lost 1-0 to their bitter rivals.Neymar was heard telling officials as he walked off the pitch that he had been racially abused, with the Brazilian star later tweeting the racist term he was allegedly called.Following the match, Gonzalez wrote on Twitter that "there is no place for racism", before adding: "Sometimes you have to learn to lose and take it on the field."Neymar's PSG team-mates Leandro Paredes and Layvin Kurzawa were also shown red cards during the match, along with Marseille players Jordan Amavi and Dario Benedetto.Marseille winger Florian Thauvin scored the winner in the 31st minute of a tense

The summer transfer window has yet to open as some countries around Europe are still completing the 2019/20 season.