Feyenoord but teen may be given chance at Magpies next term

possession.

“In the game that Slot wants to play, the wingers are of course crucial positions, and that is why he keeps fiddling with them,” the pundit told ESPN. “It just doesn’t work there. Calvin Stengs could go at 10. But then he has to worry about his right winger position,” Gouka knows.

“I have seen Minteh come on, but when he is standing there... The bench has been screaming at him for thirty minutes, because Minteh walks everywhere he should not.

“During dead moments he doesn’t know where to stand... He is a player who does everything on intuition.

“Eighteen months ago he was still an amateur. Overall, he’s not handling it well enough.”

Gouka is not the only member of the media to criticise Newcastle’s relatively inexperienced signing.

Andy van de Meyde, formerly of

Everton, took aim at the teenager last month, labelling him ‘restless’ on the ball.

Slot, however, jumped to the defence of the loanee on that occasion, responding: “That’s right... but I think that is also the reason why Newcastle United loaned him to us.

“They, just like us, see a lot of talent in him. But it [his developing talent] is not ‘finished’ yet. That is the place we [Feyenoord] currently occupy in the football pyramid. If he had such an overview of the ball to give every cross, he would have stayed at Newcastle.”

Minteh was linked with a surprise recall to Tyneside over Christmas due to Newcastle’s well-documented injury crisis.

No move materialised but it would be no surprise to see the Gambian forward given a crack under Eddie Howe next term.