Rafa Benitez will miss out on the signing of Stevan Jovetic for the second time when he joins Monaco.
The Newcastle boss was hoping to complete a deal for the Inter Milan forward in the coming days but he is now on the verge of a £10million move to last season’s Champions League semi-finalists, who will lose striker Kylian Mbappe to PSG this week.
It will not be the first time that Benitez has missed out on Jovetic. He wanted to sign him for Liverpool in the summer of 2009 and the deal was all but agreed until the club’s owners blocked the transfer because of concerns over cost.