Newcastle United have been tipped to bring Blackburn Rovers’s Championship talisman Adam Armstrong back to the Premier League.
Blackburn Rovers fans might have feared their season was all-but over when talisman Bradley Dack suffered a season-ending injury in December.
But with Adam Armstrong stepping up to the plate in remarkable fashion, Tony Mowbray’s side are still harbouring hopes of a late play-off charge.
Since scoring against Birmingham City on Boxing Day, a jet-heeled forward has contributed eight goals and assists in nine Championship games, one of those a scorching long-range drive in a 3-0 thrashing of Hull City.
And with Armstrong in the midst of his best run of form since that prolific loan spell at Coventry in 2015/16, reports suggest that Newcastle United are rumoured to be weighing up a shock move to bring a Chapel House-born speed-machine back to where it all started (LancsLive).
Given that the 23-year-old is a boyhood Magpies fanatic, who bleeds black and white, a potential return to St James’ Park would surely be too good to turn down.
“The club still means a lot to me,” Armstrong, who is only the second youngest player to ever represent Newcastle in the Premier League, told iFollow Rovers (4th January 2019).
“I’m a Newcastle fan and was there for a long time, since I was nine-years-old and coming through the academy system.”
By the time Armstrong had joined Blackburn in a £3 million deal, sold by Rafa Benitez after failing to make the step up from the reserves to the first-team, the former England U21 international had managed just a handful of starts – and no goals.
It’s fair to say he has unfinished business at Newcastle.
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