Keegan and Mourinho in race for French striker Gomis
Jun 15 2008 by Neil Farrington,

NEWCASTLE face a mighty new foe in the race for French striker Bafetimbi Gomis – Jose Mourinho.

United are ready to pay £10 million for St Etienne starlet Gomis, dubbed the new Didier Drogba.

But Mourinho is ready to make the task of luring the 22-year-old to Tyneside all the more difficult by offering him Champions League football at Inter Milan.

The former Chelsea boss is said to be cool on the idea of taking Drogba himself to the San Siro, but Gomis is available at less than half the price.

Meanwhile, the Sunday Sun under- stands Newcastle are in talks with Tottenham over a deal for central defender Younes Kaboul.

But United — who envisage spending big money on Gomis and the likes of Arda Turan, Andrei Arshavin or Rafael van der Vaart — are reluctant to meet Spurs’ £6m asking price for the 22-year-old.

The Magpies have been offered Benfica’s Brazilian centre-half Luisao, but won’t be doing business at a quoted price of £12m.

But Ipswich remain defiantly confident of boosting Newcastle’s coffers by buying Shola Ameobi, with manager Jim Magilton still hopeful of convincing the seemingly reluctant striker to join them when he returns from honeymoon.

what a bad signing that would be for me, i dont rate him too tell the truth the other night he was terrible..