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Newcastle United target David Concha recently visited the city as he mulls over a summer transfer, Chronicle Live understands.

The 18-year-old attacking midfielder is available for little more than £2m and after the success of his friend Ayoze Perez last term, the Magpies believe he can make the transition from Spanish second division to Premier League.

But with Segunda Division champions Real Betis and Valencia also interested, a move to Tyneside is far from guaranteed.

Concha made his trip before it was known what division the Magpies would be playing in next season. That they have remained in the top flight makes them a more attractive prospect, but he will have to weigh that up against the fact that it will make breaking into their first team more difficult.

The Magpies’ will hope that Perez’s presence and his success in the season just gone will persuade Concha to try life in a different country in order to push his long-term international claims.

With two matches to play, Concha’s club Racing Santander are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference. But their financial position is so perilous their very existence is under threat, meaning they will have no choice but to sell – and at a cut price – whatever division they are playing in next season. Their debts are such that they are under government pressure to sell players and Concha is one of their few remaining assets.

Concha was a January target for Newcastle – with talk of him being loaned back for the rest of the campaign – and they have shown many times they are nothing if not persistent when it comes to landing the personnel they want.

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Since the last transfer window closed Concha has been a regular in the side, playing wide in a 4-2-3-1 formation, normally on the right but occasionally on the left, and scoring three times, including the only goal against Lugo.

Newcastle’s wing play has been particularly disappointing this season, with Remy Cabella struggling to adapt to English football, Yoan Gouffran way below the standards of his debut season, Rolando Aarons and Gabriel Obertan hampered by injury, and Sammy Ameobi out of contract next month.

In all Concha has made 33 appearances this season, scoring five times. He made his Santander debut as a 17-year-old and has three Spanish under-19 caps, scoring three times. Spain are not playing at this summer’s prestigious Toulon Tournament.

Although he unsurprisingly faded in the second half of the season, and was not used in its decisive final game, 21-year-old Perez was one of the rare success stories of Newcastle’s 2014-15 campaign.

He arrived expecting to be little more than a teenage squad player, but made 36 league appearances, 25 from the start, scoring seven times. Only Papiss Cisse found the net more often, with midfielders Moussa Sissoko and Jack Colback in joint third with four Premier League goals each.

Newcastle’s whole transfer philosophy is based around chief scout Graham Carr identifying talent from relative European footballing backwaters available at cut prices. Concha fits their needs perfectly, so the Magpies will be hoping his tour of the city and his talks with Perez have left a favourable impression.