Spanish speakers want to make Miguel feel right at home – Perez

NEWCASTLE United’s Spanish speakers are helping Miguel Almiron settle in ‘quickly’ because they know he is going to give ‘a lot’ once he’s up and running, according to Ayoze Perez.

Although he lived in the US for a couple of years, Almiron does not speak much English so it has fallen to Federico Fernandez, Javier Manquillo, Florian Lejeune, Salomon Rondon, Joselu and Perez, in particular, to help him settle in. Something Perez has relished.

“Every Spanish speaker is trying to welcome him to feel like a very warm welcome so that’s what we’re trying to do,” he told NUFC TV. “He’s come from a different country and that’s the idea. We know he can help us a lot and if we work on that, trying to make him feel at home as quickly as possible, he’s going to give us a lot.

“The squad is growing – more players, more competition – and that’s going to be interesting and that’s going to improve ourselves.”

Following the disappointment of conceding a 95th-minute equaliser to Wolves, the players and staff boarded a flight to Spain for a warm-weather training camp.

The squad are based near Alicante and the break worked wonders for Newcastle last season when Benitez’s side won three successive league games against Huddersfield, Leicester and Arsenal upon their return.

And Perez is hoping for a similar result ahead of that huge game against Huddersfield later this month.

“That’s the idea. Working on the togetherness to improve it. To be together a couple of days and that’s it,” he added.