Santiago Muñoz will leave Saints to join Newcastle and everything seems to indicate that he will go on loan for a year with an option to buy
Newcastle reached an agreement with Saints on the last day of transfers to Europe to take Santiago Muñoz for a year on loan with option to buy, the English club has reported, and will be registered with the Under-23 category of the herons.
The player comes on loan, but the deal includes an option to make the move from Muñoz to Tyneside permanent.
The 19-year-old Mexican striker will be registered with the Under-23 category of the Herons with the possibility of having participation in the first team during the year he is on loan with the English team, which he will be able to buy from the player. at the end of 12 months of the agreement.
Muñoz will reach the Newcastle Under-23s, a category that is led by Scot Gary Caldwell, who came on the bench for the youth herons for the current season.
Newcastle U-23 is in Group 2 of Premier League 2, which so far is led by Muñoz’s new team with seven units, after adding two wins and a draw.
The Herons youth team comes from a season in which they finished in last place in Group 2 of the Premier League 2. Newcastle Under-23 added 25 points, the product of seven wins, four draws and 13 defeats.
It should be remembered that Muñoz has not played an official match since May 31 of this year, the day he played 22 minutes in the grand final of the Guard1anes Clausura 2021, which Sants lost to the Blue Cross.
Subsequently, the striker was separated from the first team of the Warriors because he was distracted with his future, so that the last days as a player of Saints he spent with the Under-20, category in which he was registered.