The bulk of Newcastle United’s signings in the Saudi Arabian era have been younger players.

For all of the talk that PIF’s takeover of the club would see a wide array of ready-made superstars pitch up at Newcastle, it hasn’t really played out that way.

Indeed, good players have obviously been signed and a huge amount of money has been spent but the recruitment has broadly been of younger players yet to become household names.

Bruno Guimaraes, Sven Botman, Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon, Lewis Hall, Tino Livramento and Sandro Tonali were all in their early-to-mid-twenties or younger, after all.

Broadly, it’s worked out pretty well. Guimaraes is the beating heart of this Newcastle team, while Isak has been hailed as a “generational talent”.

Gordon was tipped as one of the Premier League’s best players in the season just gone, while Botman dazzled before serious knee injuries.

Livramento proved a revelation at times, while things are improving for Hall.

The jury is still out on Tonali after his ban but it’s so far been a policy to have served Newcastle pretty well.

Which is why it’s interesting to see them linked with a move for a player hailed as having “the full package.”

London-born Samuel Iling-Junior has broken into the Juventus first-team after leaving the Chelsea academy and has been linked with Newcastle for a while now.

Now, some more insight has emerged.