10 worst Newcastle United loan deals

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Ignacio María González

This is probably the most infamous loan signing of Newcastle United’ history, and was the deal that ended Kevin Keegan’s second coming as manager.

Ignacio Gonzalez was signed over Keegan’s head after director of football Dennis Wise saw a clip of him on YouTube, so the story goes.

Anyway, Gonzalez only got on the pitch twice before being sent back to Valencia.

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