• Ivory Coast international asked for increase on £60000-a-week salary
• Newcastle still in negotiations over signing Townsend from TottenhamCheik Tioté’s mooted switch from Newcastle United to Shanghai Shenhua seems on the point of falling through after the Ivory Coast midfielder’s failure to agree personal terms.
Although the two clubs had agreed an £8m fee for a player now deemed surplus to requirements on Tyneside, Tiotés wage demands are understood to believe been rather steeper than Shanghai expected.
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Source: theguardian.com