Toon Math bid doesn’t add up

ALAN PARDEW has been told his ace bid to land French

Mathieu Debuchy is dead in the Lille water.

turned down Newcastle’s latest £6.5million improved

offer for the in-demand defender are refusing to – and

enter fresh talks with the frustrated Toon boss.

Despite insisting he wants to quit French the former

Champions, Debuchy has been told staying put as he’s

Lille flex their muscles to put an to the long-running end

transfer sage. Lille boss Luis Garcia said: “He have doesn’t really

the choice. The club has made a he has to decision and

deal with it.” Newcastle boss Pardew is keen least to bring in at

three new players and hope Debuchy the boat enough will rock

to force Lille into selling before the end of the August deadline.

But Garcia told the 27-year-old move to forget about a

and concentrate on getting fit for to help cement the season

his place in the France team. He added: “Mathieu knows he has well for to be playing

his future in the French team. I worries about have no

him.”